title: Categorizing function of canned jokes in mass media texts
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metadata.value: Shilikhina, Ksenia M.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2020-09-09T11:20:39Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2020-09-09T11:20:39Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-06
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Shilikhina, K.M. (2020). Categorizing function of canned jokes in mass media texts. Media Linguistics, 7 (2), 250–262.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu22.2020.208
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/19340
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article discusses the use of canned jokes in mass media texts and radio programs. The
  study is focused on the categorizing function of canned jokes and their role in the explanation of the state of affairs. Initially an oral genre, canned jokes often function as culturally
  significant texts which refer to certain typical situations. Being cited or told in the context of a
  newspaper article or a radio program, jokes become a kind of cognitive scheme on the basis of
  which the current situation is explained. Such use of canned jokes as tools for categorization
  differs from telling jokes with the aim to entertain. In mass media discourse canned jokes are
  used in discussions of acute social problems: they make the understanding of a situation easier
  for participants and at the same time they ease emotional tension which is characteristic of
  discussions of important social issues. As part of another text, canned jokes function as multifaceted tool, which makes it easier to convey information and implicit meaning. The article
  analyses the relations between components of the two situations: the one described in the
  canned joke and the real one. It is claimed that an understanding of current affairs is the result
  of conceptual integration of the two situations. Relative contextual independence is the genre
  property of canned jokes which allows them to function as a categorization tool. Language
  speakers use them as culturally significant texts and establish cross-textual connections that
  activate additional knowledge about the world.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Media Linguistics;Volume 7; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: canned joke
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: mass media text
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: categorization
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: evaluation
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: intertextuality
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Categorizing function of canned jokes in mass media texts
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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