The man as seen in Russian jokes

The cultural portrait of the man is reconstructed on the basis of contemporary Russian jokes in the context of gender studies. The author identifies such typical traits as love of drinking and watching sports programmes, laziness, ostentatious eroticism, etc. At the same time, certain mechanism of t...

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Main Author: Yevstafyeva M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University 2013-12-01
Series:Слово.ру: балтийский акцент
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Online Access:https://journals.kantiana.ru/eng/slovo/1691/4804/
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Summary:The cultural portrait of the man is reconstructed on the basis of contemporary Russian jokes in the context of gender studies. The author identifies such typical traits as love of drinking and watching sports programmes, laziness, ostentatious eroticism, etc. At the same time, certain mechanism of the comical are defined from the perspectives of cultural and cognitive linguistics.
ISSN:2225-5346
2686-8989