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From the point of view of modern Russian joke rhetoric

Author: JinSuNa
Tutor: HuShiXiong
School: Sichuan International Studies University
Course: Russian Language and Literature
Keywords: Joke Language Features Rhetoric
CLC: H35
Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2011
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Abstract

Former Soviet Union, the famous writer Maxim Gorky said, \Jokes to make people feel a little regimented life of pleasure and relaxation. Meanwhile, the joke is that people oppose the totalitarian and authoritarian system of a powerful weapon. In Russia, the joke is an important means of communication, in people's daily life plays an important role in Russian culture occupies an important position. Russian joke анекдот is derived from the Greek word, its intention is referred to as \Jokes are an integral part of national culture, we can see through the joke of a nation living environment, lifestyle, social relations. The modern sense of the Russian joke is a verbal creative literary genre, referring to some brief oral story, its content varies, jokes hero of the story varied, with a teasing or ridicule colors, the outcome is always a surprise but wit playful. This article is from the rhetoric of modern Russian joke. In this paper, a joke similar concepts are defined and analyzed, and the basic features for a joke carried out extensive research. This article focuses on the perspective from rhetoric to the study of modern Russian jokes, including research its basic characteristics and genres frequently used rhetorical language. Practical significance of this paper is that a joke as oral folk creation widespread, involving all aspects of people's lives, researchers have put the main focus on the aspects of the social function of a joke, they are very focused research from psychology and cognitive aspects, and specifically from the perspective of rhetorical treatise little joke. This article is from the perspective of modern Russian rhetoric joke, this starting point and the conclusion is the manifestation of academic ideas. Object of this paper is the modern Russian joke text. The object of this study is the rhetorical features of modern Russian joke. The theoretical significance of the completion of the modern Russian joke rhetorical analysis. Linguistics (including rhetoric) analysis helps to further the understanding of the meaning and function mechanism jokes. The practical significance of this is that the conclusions of this paper can be used for teaching and translation activities, the use of materials can be used as textbooks and teaching Russian learners reference materials, has pointed out the characteristics of the modern Russian jokes can also be applied to cross-cultural communication teaching. Depending on the language material characteristics and purpose of writing this article, this article the concept of the research methods used comparative analysis and rhetorical analysis. The main purpose of this paper is to study from the perspective of rhetoric and analysis of modern Russian jokes, deeper understanding of Russian language and culture and the spirit of Russian national culture. This paper is structured by the introduction, three chapters body and conclusion and references composition. Introduction account of the reasons for choosing this topic, reality, academic ideas, aims and tasks, theoretical and practical significance, research methods, and outlines the thesis structure. The first chapter describes the basics of modern Russian joke. This chapter is divided into three sections, the first section is mainly about the history of jokes. The term first appeared in a joke by the historian ПрокопийКесарийский book \Over time, slowly being understood as a joke about the outstanding historical figures, famous people's stories of unusual behavior. The last century, mainly refers to some of the themes joke sharp humor and bizarre plot story. The first appears in history books jokes early human civilization, East and West have their own representative publications. 1.2 Research joke definition, the difference between the concept of similarity. This section of the reference to \to the rhetorical features on the joke redefined. The main joke III classification and function. According to different classification criteria, jokes can be divided into many types. Joke's main features are: entertainment function, and regulation functions and hide functionality. The second chapter is the study of the characteristics of modern Russian joke. This chapter is composed of four sections. First as a reflection of national culture on the joke picture text analysis of the characteristics of the language and culture. It is reflected in the text of a joke everyday life and cultural stereotypes. 1.2 Research joke genre characteristics, the authors focus on the jokes and images of renewable on. Section III examines the structural characteristics of a joke. Although the joke was not long, but jokes have their own unique language features, such as the beginning of a very long, but the end is very short, unexpected, so that the listener had to go back and re-focus the beginning of a joke, there are many fixed sentence patterns. Section IV study of modern Russian jokes, the most common of the hero, they are: national mind, little Vova, traffic police, mother, Chukchi people, Russian upstart, blonde, American, French and Russian, the former Soviet Republic of countries and Jews. The third chapter is the study of the modern Russian joke rhetorical means. This chapter is composed of two sections. First study of modern Russian joke texts used by the general rhetorical devices, such as homophones, homonyms, homographs and similar phenomena. II study of jokes rhetoric reflected. This section is to analyze and summarize text in Russian jokes frequently used rhetorical, including pun, parody, hyperbole, metaphor, irony, no logic, repulsion and superfluous redundancy and so on. Conclusion concludes the paper and make conclusions.

From the point of view of modern Russian joke rhetoric

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