Թեմա - Linguo-cultural Analysis of English Jokes in the Category of Animals
Տեսակ - Կուրսային, անհատական և ստուգողական աշխատանքներ
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Chapter 1.
1.1. Humor in Different Cultures
1.2. Peculiarities of English Humor and Jokes
Chapter 2.
2.1. Humor with Animals in Phraseological Units and Idioms
Conclusion
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During the first half of the twentieth century, psychologists believed that humor was a learned social trait. They theorized that somewhere on earth there existed groups or perhaps entire cultures whose people totally lacked a sense of humor. Of course, no such group has ever been found, leading psychologists to finally conclude that humor is indeed universal and pan-cultural. Every culture in the world – Chinese, American, German, Mongolian, Arabic and Armenian – finds something to laugh at. However, what each chooses to laugh at, will differ widely from culture to culture.
Culture is the specific form of the existence of human being and communities in the world. It combines and separates out people on the basis of identical life styles, systems of behavior, norms and values. The peculiar ՚mirror՚ of culture is language, which in its turn has an influence on culture. Besides it is a source of interpretation of social culture and national mentality. Language can be considered both as a component and a weapon of culture. As every bearer of language is considered to be the bearer of culture too, it means that language signs gain the ability to function as culture signs. That is why language can express both cultural and national mentality of its bearers.
There can be found several similarities and differences between cultures. Culture forms and organizes the idea of language identity, and the language categories and concepts. There exists a universal aspect of human life in culture, which is present in all cultures and which is peculiar to everyone in the world. This is humor. The mostly widespread speech genre which is aimed at creating comic effects is anecdote, which is a very short, interesting, amusing story with funny content and with an unexpected sharp end.
As a cultural concept, humor has some valuable characteristics, it is connected with key life landmarks. Humor is one of the most convenient way of human adaptation to changing circumstances, it is a reaction to an unexpected development, to a certain extent - reconciliation with reality, and with the experience of positive emotions, which contribute to the strengthening of health .