COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF COMMUNICATIVE AND PRAGMATIC INTENTION OF HUMOR IN ENGLISH AND UZBEK
Abstract
Understanding and expressing the humor in English and in Uzbek are problematic for foreign language learners since understanding the jokes requires being familiar with their linguistic, cultural and social elements. During the last fifty years there have been numerous works in humor studies, emphasizing linguistic humors and involving the field of rhetoric. The present study therefore applied Austin’s Speech Act Theory (1975) and Grice’s Cooperative Principles (1957), and Berger’s rhetorical techniques (1993) to crack the funniness of the written jokes. Specifically, the study aims at describing: how the rhetorical and pragmatic strategies are used in the jokes, and how the pragmatic and rhetorical strategies complement to create humor. The study employed a qualitative research method. Document studies were the means of data collection. The collected data were then analyzed using a qualitative content analysis. The results showed that that there was a relationship between the two pragmatic theories.
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