Abstract
Intertextuality, although emerged in the field of literary criticism, attracts scholars’ much attention in discourse analysis in the field of linguistics. It has certain practical significance in analyzing law documents, advertisements, academic papers, news reports and other types of discourses. Humor, as a pervasive phenomenon in human society and an interdisciplinary research subject, has attracted scholars’ much attention from different fields. This paper aims to explore how intertextual resources are appropriately applied in humorous discourses. As intertextuality at the same time brings at least two contexts of each text, context theory will further help to analyze how intertextual relations in certain context lead to humorous effect.
Highlights
Humor has been extensively studied in humanities within psychology, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, esthetics and other fields
Intertextuality originally begins in the field of literary criticism
Cliché as a form of specific intertextuality refers to words or expressions that are frequently used in a certain field and it works a lot in helping to generate humorous effect
Summary
Humor has been extensively studied in humanities within psychology, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, esthetics and other fields. It is inevitable to study humor within the scope of linguistics. It has been a long history since the beginning of the research on intertextuality. With the development of intertextuality in linguistic field especially in discourse analysis on one hand and on the other hand, because of the intertextual nature of humorous discourse, the study on humor from the perspective of intertextuality becomes an inevitable trend. We can see that it is inevitable and feasible to study humor from the perspective of intertextuality. It is assumed that context theory would be effective to help further analyze humor from the perspective of intertextuality. This paper will be a practical and creative attempt in analyzing how to generate and appreciate humorous effect from this point of view
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