Nowadays, people spend hours on social media conversing and sharing information through jokes references made online. Digital memes are one of the most favourable means internet communication, which thrives humour. The main purpose humour is to entertain make laugh. So, avoid hurting others by joking at expense others, many turn self-mockery. One type self-mockery self-defeating in speaker targ...

carnival is one of polyphonic word basis in mikhail bhaktin’s theory of dialogue logic. since “the carnival” is emerged from the mass celebrates in the middle ages, this element in language, is demonstrated with components, as humor, mockery and joking, rejecting the values of society, mixture of life and death, according to flesh and physical delight, social criticism, and in general, anything...

I have always wanted to invent the perfect practical joke. All jokes are based on making a shift in the assumptions of the listeners and then guiding them by sheer force of logic to consequences that are so ludicrous that the real world can only be restored by laughter. Thus: two Martians met in the street, and one said, “What’s your name?” The other replied, “29876 – 82”, to which the first sa...

While separate pieces of research found parents offer toddlers cues to express that they are (1) joking and (2) pretending, and that toddlers and preschoolers understand intentions to (1) joke and (2) pretend, it is not yet clear whether parents and toddlers consider joking and pretending to be distinct concepts. This is important as distinguishing these two forms of nonliteral acts could open ...

While separate pieces of research found parents offer toddlers cues to express that they are (1) joking and (2) pretending, and that toddlers and preschoolers understand intentions to (1) joke and (2) pretend, it is not yet clear whether parents and toddlers consider joking and pretending to be distinct concepts. This is important as distinguishing these two forms of non-literal acts could open...