The Memes From The Humorous Point Of View

The memes from the humorous point of view

Introduction

The memes will be analyzed from the humorous point of view. Therefore, from the scope of linguistics and, in particular, the pragmatic, Leonor Ruiz Gurillo and the Graial Research Group have dedicated numerous works of study to humor, what are their linguistic features and what mechanisms must be used to be able to use it properlyin a conversation. One of her most characteristic and influential fruits is the linguistics of humor in Spanish, where the author takes a tour of what has been understood by humor and applies one of the most important theories to several forms of communication that use it.

Developing

In this way, Ruiz Gurillo does what she calls an radiography of humor in her work and, also, in the historical journey that she performs covering the various theories of humor, highlights Salvatore Attardo, an author who understands that there are two different ways fromaddress humor: on the one hand, as competition and, on the other hand, as an action.

Humor as a competence proposed by Attardo implies the ability of speakers to make and understand humor in their semantic and pragmatic and, in turn, the possibility of establishing differences with other similar communicative tools, such as irony. On the contrary, humor as an action refers to the social aspects of its use (in the sense of the purpose or function for which it is used) or the interaction reactions it causes in the receiver, as it could be laughter or characterplayful.

On the other hand, following the definition provided by Gómez Capuz (2002: 75), humor could be defined as conscious, deliberate, constant and systematic transgression of the mechanisms that govern the normal development of daily communicative interaction. Therefore, this tool entails the overcoming of expectations that the interlocutors have when communicating. Pragmatically and with the idea of Gomez Capuz, to understand humor, you have to go to two basic ideas:

1. First, the humorous uses of language give rise to a secondary discursive variety, that is, they resort to concepts that are implicit in the literal meanings of linguistic expression, so that a network of cultural beliefs of a community comes into playlinguistics.
2. Second, its use responds to one of the most recognized social functions to human language: establishing links between speakers involved in communication.

These two features explain, in most cases, why humor is associated with interaction and oral discourse, giving rise to a reason why the jokes are funny. Thus, humor is a dynamic and playful element that has expressive potential and is used in the conversation to give touches of attention to the listener, so it is also used to initiate and conserve social relationships between speakers.

In this way, it can be inferred that humor is a mechanism that has as a direct and unique purpose to make an individual or a group laugh and that today is the object of study of various scientific disciplines, such as psychology, and humanistic, suchLike anthropology or linguistics.

However, this term has resulted and continues to be complex to define today, since variable factors have to take into account when producing it and understanding it in practice. For this reason, in the territory of comedy and laughter, as Barros García says: the humorous manifestations of a people are a faithful reflection of their culture and their peculiar way of thinking and feeling, that is, the context becomesA factor when humor is used in a conversation, because, for example, a joke whose grace is based on the fact that a Catalan is more gripped than any other inhabitant of the Peninsula, an English or an Italian will not understand without an explanation of the context. 

Thus, in series with repercussion and international scope such as the Simpsons or how I met your mother (Himym), as many studies have demonstrated, humor is immersed in our language and culture, so it is essential to know how to translate the funniest dialogues ofOne language to another, because many of the jokes in these series are usually phrases that, if they translate literally, lose their meaning and do not have funny.

A basic concept in Raskin and Attardo proposals is the concept of script, frame or script, which define as an orderly block of information about something. The script is a cognitive structure that the speaker has internalized and represents the knowledge of the world. According to Raskin, there is a semantic network (Semantic Network) that connects all scripts with each other based on different semantic relationships. Likewise, Raskin’s goal when study

1. that the text is compatible with two different scripts, totally or in part;
2. That the scripts oppose, as in a taxonomic relationship and must be superimposed in the text, that is, they must be incompatible.

For them, humor will not reside solely in the overlap of scripts, but humor is the result of the overlap of two semantic frames or opposite meaning schemes, which explains the contrastive nature of the humorous phenomenon. According to them, a framework, within cognitive linguistics, is an entity of organization of episodic memory, built around lived experiences, that is, a structure that gives information on how a certain identity is divided, what its parts are andHow are they related to other identities.

conclusion

Specifically, Raskin talks about three oppositions: Real vs. Not real, normal vs. abnormal, possible vs. impossible, that can be updated in others of each culture and can reflect basic dichotomies in human life. In addition, to exemplify more concrete oppositions, Raskin adds his own concept of local antonymy, a type of opposition that arises from the text itself, that is, the meanings are opposed only in a particular speech in particular.