Abstract
<p>Social context often drives the performance of laughter in cultural situations. As a metaphor, laughter provides not only an exchange of integrative information among the community members, but also the enactment of aggressive relations in the society. These characteristics may be seen clearly while observing metaphors related to the performance of laughter in the Azerbaijani socio-cultural environment. In the study of humor, content is usually analyzed but the performance of behavioral cues such as laughter is neglected, although it can shed light on the meaning of the communication. To understand folk behaviors and texts related to the laughter, I argue that special attention needs to be given to behaviors as well as texts communicated in a social situation. This study reveals that the jokes causing laughter are accepted and perceived by the male and female audiences differently. Women's laughter receives disapproval in the Azerbaijan cultural context regarding sexuality. Men take such laughter to be a threat to their manliness.</p>
Highlights
When you approach laughter from the point of view of sociocultural relations, you will soon find that its metaphorical meaning in the social environment is wider than linguistic content
Laughter is characterized as the designation of concrete behavior from a terminological point of view, this definition specifies a polysemantic event in a socio-cultural context
To appreciate the social essence of laughter in Azerbaijani society, we must first refer to the joke environment linked directly to the male group
Summary
When you approach laughter from the point of view of sociocultural relations, you will soon find that its metaphorical meaning in the social environment is wider than linguistic content. I am seriously ill and do not see any reason to cause a protest What does it mean to start screaming these days?” my situation is the same as that of Khoja Nasraddin, and for me, there is no other way but to laugh (Yusifzade, 2010, p.167). The updated communication within the male group contains dramatic tension Since this tradition, widespread in the social environment of Azerbaijan, should be implemented in the context of acute conflicts. To shed light on the reason for this, we would like to refer to an example It has been observed on several occasions that when a person tries to present his unpleasant situation as positive, he is told such a joke: One day, a poor man comes home, tells his wife that the “bey” talked. The main objective in this case is to prevent the transfer of a conflict in a joke with a specific conflict in the social
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