A close look at jokes in pragmatic aspect

A close look at jokes in pragmatic aspect

This article aims at studying various features of pragmatics in every day jokes to understand why they are so funny, unpredictable and unexpected as well as what provides them with these characteristics.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Ho Dang Tuong Nguyen
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	HO CHI MINH CITY OPEN UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF SCIENCE 2011-06-01
Series:	Ho Chi Minh City Open University Journal of Science - Social Sciences
Subjects:	pragmatics joke utterance referent presupposition maxim deixis politeness face speech act cooperation
Online Access:	https://journalofscience.ou.edu.vn/index.php/soci-en/article/view/303

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