Humor during Crisis; an Examination over Humor related to covid-19 disease based on General Theory of Verbal Humor

Rudaki is one of the poets whose poetry collection has not been found and the The present paper has been written to examine the jokes about the outbreak of Covid-19 which have been circulated in the social media. Linguistic and discoursal analysis of these types of jokes which are sociolinguisticall...

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Main Authors: Vahid Tavoli, Shahram Modarres Khiabani, Bahram Modarresi, Farideh Mohseni Hanji
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Published: Allameh Tabataba'i University Press 2021-03-01
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Online Access:https://ls.atu.ac.ir/article_15056_b647e9ebe737feef428636485d79bda0.pdf
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Shahram Modarres Khiabani
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Farideh Mohseni Hanji
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description Rudaki is one of the poets whose poetry collection has not been found and the The present paper has been written to examine the jokes about the outbreak of Covid-19 which have been circulated in the social media. Linguistic and discoursal analysis of these types of jokes which are sociolinguistically called "disaster jokes", could contribute to elaborating different aspects of this social phenomenon as a means to show the public culture in the socio-cultural framework of the society. The data of the present paper includes over 100 Covid-19 related jokes which have been collected from the virtual networks and some applications such as telegram and whatsapp within 90days from February to May 2020 made and circulated in Iran. The present data in this paper have been analysed and examined based on general theory of verbal humour and xi2 test. Having examined the existing data in this paper, the authors found a meaningful relationship between "Logical Mechanism" and "Script Opposition" as two main knowledge sources. Furthermore, examining the present data depicts that the political, religion, critical and sexual issues have been linked to these jokes to form humour and irony; accordingly, these jokes can be classified under political, religious, sexual, ethic and neutral categories. In addition, a meaningful relationship between these jokes and script opposition can be taken into consideration.
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spelling doaj.art-f8d535ef4a304e34887d7905eaa90b262024-01-02T11:02:07ZfasAllameh Tabataba'i University Press̒Ilm-i Zabān2423-77282538-25512021-03-018ویژه نامه کرونا315610.22054/ls.2020.53580.135415056Humor during Crisis; an Examination over Humor related to covid-19 disease based on General Theory of Verbal HumorVahid Tavoli0Shahram Modarres Khiabani1Bahram Modarresi2Farideh Mohseni Hanji3Ph.D. Student, Linguistics, South Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, IranAssistant Professor, Department of English Teaching and Translation, Karaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Karaj, IranAssistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, IranAssistant Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, South Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, IranRudaki is one of the poets whose poetry collection has not been found and the The present paper has been written to examine the jokes about the outbreak of Covid-19 which have been circulated in the social media. Linguistic and discoursal analysis of these types of jokes which are sociolinguistically called "disaster jokes", could contribute to elaborating different aspects of this social phenomenon as a means to show the public culture in the socio-cultural framework of the society. The data of the present paper includes over 100 Covid-19 related jokes which have been collected from the virtual networks and some applications such as telegram and whatsapp within 90days from February to May 2020 made and circulated in Iran. The present data in this paper have been analysed and examined based on general theory of verbal humour and xi2 test. Having examined the existing data in this paper, the authors found a meaningful relationship between "Logical Mechanism" and "Script Opposition" as two main knowledge sources. Furthermore, examining the present data depicts that the political, religion, critical and sexual issues have been linked to these jokes to form humour and irony; accordingly, these jokes can be classified under political, religious, sexual, ethic and neutral categories. In addition, a meaningful relationship between these jokes and script opposition can be taken into consideration.https://ls.atu.ac.ir/article_15056_b647e9ebe737feef428636485d79bda0.pdfjokessociolinguisticscognitive linguisticshumourgeneral theory of verbal humour
spellingShingle Vahid Tavoli
Shahram Modarres Khiabani
Bahram Modarresi
Farideh Mohseni Hanji
Humor during Crisis; an Examination over Humor related to covid-19 disease based on General Theory of Verbal Humor
̒Ilm-i Zabān
jokes
sociolinguistics
cognitive linguistics
humour
general theory of verbal humour
title Humor during Crisis; an Examination over Humor related to covid-19 disease based on General Theory of Verbal Humor
title_full Humor during Crisis; an Examination over Humor related to covid-19 disease based on General Theory of Verbal Humor
title_fullStr Humor during Crisis; an Examination over Humor related to covid-19 disease based on General Theory of Verbal Humor
title_full_unstemmed Humor during Crisis; an Examination over Humor related to covid-19 disease based on General Theory of Verbal Humor
title_short Humor during Crisis; an Examination over Humor related to covid-19 disease based on General Theory of Verbal Humor
title_sort humor during crisis an examination over humor related to covid 19 disease based on general theory of verbal humor
topic jokes
sociolinguistics
cognitive linguistics
humour
general theory of verbal humour
url https://ls.atu.ac.ir/article_15056_b647e9ebe737feef428636485d79bda0.pdf
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