Sociolinguistic analysis of Italian Internet Covid -19 humour
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.31558/1815-3070.2021.42.10Keywords:
jokes; COVID 19; verbal humour; linguistic humour; irony; pun; self denigrating humour; allusionAbstract
The article deals with Italian Internet humour related COVID-19. Language has always been the main way to react to all the processes in society. Jokes appear as the reaction, externalization of human thoughts and conceptualization. The research gives us important data on psychology, sociology, culturology, anthropology of the determined society and offers an opportunity to understand the semantic phenomena and the cognitive processes involved in producing jokes.
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