LINGUISTIC FEATURES OF URDU LANGUAGE IN CONSTRUCTION OF HUMOUR
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Humor, Linguistic Features, Urdu LanguageAbstract
The study investigates the phenomenon of manipulated principles to make the language humorous that results in creating laughter or smiles on the faces of the participants of a conversation. For this purpose, 25 jokes of Urdu language were selected randomly from play store and official website of Urdu jokes to investigate particular semantic, pragmatic and syntactic patterns present in the language of humor. Attardo (1994) framework consisted of six key components including script opposition, logical mechanism, situation, target, narrative strategy and language was used as tool of data analysis. The study found these components built up with ambiguity, paradoxical fantasy, mocking at people’s common habits and situation, ellipsis or incomplete thought process, cultural references, insane’ s imagination cultural stereotypes which help making language humorous.
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