Mecanismos de humor verbal en Twitter

  1. María Simarro Vázquez
Journal:
Caracteres: estudios culturales y críticos de la esfera digital

ISSN: 2254-4496

Year of publication: 2016

Volume: 5

Issue: 2

Pages: 32-57

Type: Article

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Abstract

The present article aims to characterize samples of verbal humor published on the social network Twitter. To do so, an analysis of 81 humorous texts published under the hashtag #otegi during 1 March 2016, on which date Arnaldo Otegi was released from prison after six years, was carried out. A pragmatic study of the tweets was performed, opting for the General Theory of Verbal Humor as a basis. The examination conducted reveals that the manner of presentation of opposing scripts, the logical mechanisms availed of to resolve this kind of incongruity, the special narrative strategies selected and the linguistic choices made are determined at all times by the circumstances in which the texts are presented and the upper limit constraint of 140 characters per Twitter publication

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