Vol. 43 No. 1 (2023)
Articles

Joking as a Speech Act, and the Linguistic Relativity of Humor

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  • Antonio Blanco Salgueiro
Antonio Blanco Salgueiro
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36446/af.2023.492

Published 2023-05-01

Keywords

  • Bromear,
  • Infortunio,
  • Ilocución,
  • Relación bromista,
  • Relatividad lingüística
  • Joking,
  • Infelicity,
  • Illocution,
  • Joking Relationship,
  • Linguistic Relativity
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Abstract

The research on joking is at the center of the study of the relationship between language and humor. We firstly examine the possibility of analyzing joking using the tools provided by Speech Act Theory, in particular by neoaustinian versions of the theory. Secondly, the results obtained in the first part of the work are applied to set a hypothesis about the linguistic relativity of humor, according to which the habits in the use of joking in a certain society or group nontrivially influence the private-individual uses of humor.

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