Humor and Social Media: A Linguistic Analysis of Some Egyptian Coronavirus Memes

The paper aims at investigating verbal humor in some selected Egyptian web memes about Corona Virus. It also identifying the different strategies and techniques used by memes' producers to create humor. In order carry out these goals, Attardo's (2014) General Theory of Verbal Humor is as a methodology this research. Humour consists six knowledge resources which are called (KRs): a) script opposition, b) logical mechanism, c) situation, d) target, e) narrative strategy f) language. Results show that possible/impossible normal/abnormal oppositions two major types opposition corpus. Analogy exaggeration, on other hand, most common mechanisms memes.