REALIZATION OF COMMUNICATIVE AND PRAGMATIC INTENTION OF HUMOR IN ENGLISH AND UZBEK
Keywords:
pragmatics, humor, joke, verbal humor, discourse, speech, culture, communication, language use, speech acts, communicative intention, speaker, illocutionary act, utteranceAbstract
The article is devoted to studies of the realization of communicative and pragmatic intention of humor in English and Uzbek languages. The attention will be focused on the fact that every single nation has its own features, customs, culture, traditions as well as the sense of humor. According to the distinctions and differences between the world pictures of nations one humor can be ridiculous for one culture and foreign for the other one. When it comes to humor, the majority of people start making the mistake of thinking that humor is easy and simple. However, in fact, to make someone laugh with the help of verbal jokes, a person needs more than we think: social, cultural and linguistic elements of every nation. The study employed a qualitative research method. Some jokes were purposively selected from: https://short- funny.com/, and from Utkir Khoshimov “Osmondan tushgan pul” (2019). The purpose of the article to study the realization of communicative and pragmatic intention of humor in English and Uzbek languages.
