POLITICAL SPEECHES AS A SOURCE OF HUMOROUS AND SATIRICAL EFFECT
Keywords:
Satire, humor, irony, political discourse, pragmatics.Abstract
The aim was to contribute to the discussion of the satirical genre about the meaning of idioms such as irony and sarcasm, hyperbole and allusion, pun and parody, caricature and meme, in order to achieve a special ironic and sarcastic effect, in order to show how animators, resort to vulgar and ambiguous humor to satirize mediocre people, established habits, and dominant ideologies and ways of thinking in contemporary American society, especially in American politics.
References
Galperin, I. R., Th e New in Foreign Linguistics [Novoe v zarubezhnoj lingvistike], Moscow 1991
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English. Pearson Education Limited, 2001 (LDCE).
Van Dijk, T. A. (2009) Society and discourse: how social contexts influence text and talk. Cambridge University Press
http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/2016-Election/fl/2016-Election Jokes.htm
