ON SOME HUMOROUS ASPECTS OF CONCEPTUAL BLENDING IN POLITICIZED DISCOURSE

In this paper, a very dynamic linguistic phenomenon, humour, is analysed on the basis of the Theory of Conceptual Blending developed by Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner (2002). It was discovered that in Lithuanian politicized discourse during and after the period of elections (2012, 2016) the major...

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Published in:	Verbum
Main Author:	Dovilė Vengalienė
Format:	Article
Language:	German
Published:	Vilnius University Press 2016-12-01
Subjects:	cognitive linguistics conceptual blending humour irony splinters
Online Access:	http://www.journals.vu.lt/verbum/article/view/10295

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