La expresión de la subjetividad en el humor infantil: elementos valorativos, atenuadores e intensificadores
Year: 2017
Type: article
Abstract: The development of metapragmatic competence in general, and more precisely of verbal humour, is related to people’s age. This paper has as its aim to study the importance of subjectivity that the evaluative elements, intensifiers and attenuating devices show in the construction of a narrative discourse with humour of boys and girls of 8 and 12 years of age. In the text corpus of this study, which is made up of 300 essays, quantitative data concerning the uses and distribution of these elements in the construction of verbal humour was first analysed. Subsequently, it is observed how the same elements contribute to the creation of verbal humour. The result obtained shows how the analysed elements contribute to the creation of humour as well as the way they contribute to establish a gradual connection between the issuers’ age and the type of humorous production.
DOI: 10.5209/clac.56318
Author: José Joaquín Martínez Egido
Institution: University of Alicante
Language: Spanish
Subfield: Social Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2743532042