HUMOROUS INTERPRETATIONS OF ABBREVIATIONS AS A SOCIO-CULTURAL PHENOMENON.

The article discusses the nature of abbreviation jokes, the possible formulation principles, relations to humour and slang and the way their interpretation depends on the socio-cultural context. The abbreviated riddle corpus, (ca 3,000 texts of about 330 types) stored in the Folklore Archives of the...

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Publicado en:Folklore (14060957) Vol. 46; pp. 61 - 83
Autor principal: Voolaid, Piret
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore Sep2010
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