Repositori URV

Identifier: TDX:561

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TDX561

Authors:
Monje, Maria Pilar

Abstract:
Humour is a communicative act which is made in a text as a unit of communication, and as such can be linguistically analysed. Humour is a creative way of communicating a view of the world.This non-imitative form of communication is done through the transgression of the rules that govern the text and discourse production. This transgression is due to the presence of a meaningful segment that is heterogeneous regarding another or other linguistic signs, within a homogenising linguistic context. The created relationship between these heterogeneous signs highlights their connotations of opposite socio-cultural values -uneven in rank-, which once confronted generate humour. These values neutralise one another, modifying the semiotic connotative degraded ant the lowest one is enhanced. Humour is also a transgression of values and provides the text with a new meaning, a transgressive message. The receiver's smile signifies the acceptance of that trangessive message.In Gloria Fuertes' case, the linguistic procedures for generating humour must be added as stylistic resources to her poetical resources, which are connected to her communicative obsession and which coexist with those related to her imaginative capacity, her command of expressiveness, her poetical rhythm and her control of language.The linguistic procedures for generating humour in Gloria Fuertes' poetry are the following: 1) The transgression of content coherence rules (rule of semiotic recurrence, rule of no contradicition and rule of relationship with reality) and 2) the transgression of register adequacy rules due to the inadequacy of the theme, inadequacy of tenor and inadequacy of the mode.The systems of connotative values modified by the neutralisations are 1) axiological values (worse / better, inferior/super