Analyzing English Verbally Expressed Jokes in the Framework of Transitivity

SU Hang; LIU Cheng-yu

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SU Hang, LIU Cheng-yu. Analyzing English Verbally Expressed Jokes in the Framework of Transitivity[J]. Journal of University of Science and Technology Beijing ( Social Sciences Edition), 2011, 27(1): 28-32.

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SU Hang, LIU Cheng-yu. Analyzing English Verbally Expressed Jokes in the Framework of Transitivity[J]. Journal of University of Science and Technology Beijing ( Social Sciences Edition), 2011, 27(1): 28-32.

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Analyzing English Verbally Expressed Jokes in the Framework of Transitivity

School of Foreign Languages Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China

Received Date: 2010-11-16
Available Online: 2021-06-24

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Verbal jokes are closely associated with ambiguity, among which lexicogrammatical ambiguity is one of the major mechanisms for the generation of verbally expressed jokes.In systemic functional grammar (SFG), transitivity is analyzed in terms of the realization between meaning and lexicogrammar.This provides an effective way of interpretation for lexicogrammatical ambiguity, which has not been well expounded in the framework of formalist grammar.This paper explores within the SFG theory of transitivity why a joke induced by lexicogrammatical ambiguity is funny and how it is funny, and then a linguistic model is suggested for the analysis of such verbally expressed jokes in English.
- verbally expressed jokes,
- lexicogrammatical ambiguity,
- transitivity analysis

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