A Pragmatic Study of the Sense of Humor during Covid19 | ||
| Anbar University Journal of Languages & Literature | ||
| Volume 15, Issue 3, September 2023, Pages 72-79 PDF (1.42 M) | ||
| Document Type: Research Paper | ||
| DOI: 10.37654/aujll.2023.140430.1038 | ||
| Author | ||
| Maha Majeed Anber* | ||
| Department of English, College of Education for Humanities, University of Anbar, Iraq | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Gags, memes, and general silliness about Covid19 come into existence in social media as the world hunkers down and is threatened by the most dangerous global health crisis in 100 years. The problem of this study is, if humour exists in this dangerous situation, then it might come into existence in other fields such as raising awareness and education. Consequently, some aroused questions need to be answered in this research such as what those sayings add, their target, and their implied meanings. Moreover, the answers to those questions will create the base to know that humour, if used carefully, might be a fruitful means of teaching. Pragmatically, the data, which is an array of humorous sayings about Covid19, will be analyzed by means of a qualitative approach of breaking Grice’s maxims (1975), and Taxonomy of Humor Techniques launched by Juckel, Bellman and Varan’s (2016). It is found that great deals of the sayings are ambiguous flouting the maxim of manner since they target sensitive situations with social and ethnic issues. Also, the least flouted maxim by those sayings is the relation maxim because all of them deal specifically with Covid19. It is clear from foregoing that since sayings of Covid19 target many diversified issues, in turn, every issue, irrespective of what it is, might be criticized or targeted with skilful humorous utterance. Consequently, humor could escape the domain of only entertainment to be a means to an end which is education. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Covid19ك؛; Coronavirus؛; Pragmatics؛; Humor؛ ؛؛; Taxonomy of Humor Techniques | ||
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