The Functioning of Humorous Utterances in Modern Language (a Case-Study of Woody Allen’s Works)

The article discussed the functioning of humorous utterances in modern language. Literary (essays) and cinematic works by Woody Allen as a vivid representative of the American humorous tradition of the 20th-21st centuries served as the material for the study. The novelty of the research consists in...

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Autores principales: E. V. Mikhailovskaya, D. A. Gabriel
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:1534dd50f50548438e13e2069a0b83ea2021-12-02T07:58:03ZThe Functioning of Humorous Utterances in Modern Language (a Case-Study of Woody Allen’s Works)2225-756X2227-129510.24224/2227-1295-2018-2-123-134https://doaj.org/article/1534dd50f50548438e13e2069a0b83ea2018-02-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.nauka-dialog.ru/jour/article/view/716https://doaj.org/toc/2225-756Xhttps://doaj.org/toc/2227-1295The article discussed the functioning of humorous utterances in modern language. Literary (essays) and cinematic works by Woody Allen as a vivid representative of the American humorous tradition of the 20th-21st centuries served as the material for the study. The novelty of the research consists in commenting on humorous utterances using a comprehensive approach, which includes the analysis of the cognitive and cultural base of an utterance, its communicative, discursive and linguistic features. It is shown that humorous utterances cannot be considered outside the trichotomy «consciousness, communication, speech”. It is emphasized that the latter can simultaneously realize the functions of communication, information and impact. The relevance of the article is determined by the fact that this type of utterance is characterized by a special correlation between the content plane and the expression plane, since it is intended to extract a particular reaction of the reader / listener - laughter. It is shown that idiomaticity and stylistic accuracy based on the creative use of linguistic means are typical for humorous utterances, due to their functional orientation. Particular attention is paid to structural features: it is argued that modern humorous utterances can be both monomodal (verbal) and multimodal (video-verbal) by nature.E. V. MikhailovskayaD. A. GabrielTsentr nauchnykh i obrazovatelnykh proektovarticlehumorhumorous expressionenglish humorcomiccultureSlavic languages. Baltic languages. Albanian languagesPG1-9665RUНаучный диалог, Vol 0, Iss 2, Pp 123-134 (2018)
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language RU
topic humor
humorous expression
english humor
comic
culture
Slavic languages. Baltic languages. Albanian languages
PG1-9665
spellingShingle humor
humorous expression
english humor
comic
culture
Slavic languages. Baltic languages. Albanian languages
PG1-9665
E. V. Mikhailovskaya
D. A. Gabriel
The Functioning of Humorous Utterances in Modern Language (a Case-Study of Woody Allen’s Works)
description The article discussed the functioning of humorous utterances in modern language. Literary (essays) and cinematic works by Woody Allen as a vivid representative of the American humorous tradition of the 20th-21st centuries served as the material for the study. The novelty of the research consists in commenting on humorous utterances using a comprehensive approach, which includes the analysis of the cognitive and cultural base of an utterance, its communicative, discursive and linguistic features. It is shown that humorous utterances cannot be considered outside the trichotomy «consciousness, communication, speech”. It is emphasized that the latter can simultaneously realize the functions of communication, information and impact. The relevance of the article is determined by the fact that this type of utterance is characterized by a special correlation between the content plane and the expression plane, since it is intended to extract a particular reaction of the reader / listener - laughter. It is shown that idiomaticity and stylistic accuracy based on the creative use of linguistic means are typical for humorous utterances, due to their functional orientation. Particular attention is paid to structural features: it is argued that modern humorous utterances can be both monomodal (verbal) and multimodal (video-verbal) by nature.
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