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A close look at jokes in pragmatic aspect


Author - Affiliation:
Ho Dang Tuong Nguyen - Cooperation and Research Management, HCMC Open University. , Vietnam
Corresponding author: Ho Dang Tuong Nguyen - kim.npt@ou.edu.vn

Abstract
This article aims at studying various features of pragmatics in every day jokes to understand why they are so funny, unpredictable and unexpected as well as what provides them with these characteristics.

Keywords
Pragmatics; joke; utterance; referent; presupposition; maxim; deixis; politeness; face; speech act; cooperation

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