THE RIDICULE OF PRETENTIOUSNESS IN FRENCH AND RUSSIAN JOKES
The article deals with pretentiousness as condemnable behavior of people who overestimate their own importance. Such behavior is often ridiculed in jokes. A typical genre of such jokes is a short comical narrative. A desire to look more important than others is common for different nations, but ther...
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| Language: | English |
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Volgograd State University
2014-06-01
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| Series: | Vestnik Volgogradskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta. Seriâ 2. Âzykoznanie |
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.15688/jvolsu2.2014.2.14 |