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- Title
KNOCK-KNOCK JOKES, PROPER NAMES, AND REFERENTIALITY.
- Authors
BUGHESIU, ALINA
- Abstract
This paper proposes a pragmatic and semantic study of the English knock-knock jokes, paying particular attention to the dimension of reference, in general, and the use of proper names, in particular, which are described from the viewpoint of discourse analysis and psycholinguistics. The article aims at underlining the twofold discursive function (i.e., identifying and diverging) that names fulfil in this variety of humorous texts. In the end, the study also tries to show how this pattern of English jokes has recently been adapted to Romanian.
- Subjects
KNOCK-knock jokes; NAMES; AMBIGUITY; DISCOURSE analysis; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REFERENCE (Linguistics); ROMANIAN literature
- Publication
BAS - British & American Studies, 2015, Vol 21, p183
- ISSN
1224-3086
- Publication type
Article