Conceptual blending in English and Serbian question-and-answer jokes: cultural transfer issues
This paper analyzes English and Serbian question-and-answer jokes using the cognitive linguistic theoretical framework of conceptual blending, which relies on mental spaces as cognitive packets of information used to interpret the world around us and within us. The analysis is used to illustrate how...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Cracow Tertium Society for the Promotion of Language Studies
2020-01-01
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Series: | The European Journal of Humour Research |
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Online Access: | https://www.europeanjournalofhumour.org/index.php/ejhr/article/view/387 |