Numele personajelor din literatura slovacă în slujba umorului
Names of characters in Slovak literature in the service of humour

Summary/Abstract: In this paper, the author illustrates the different types of humor by means of the names of characters taken from representative works written in Slovak, starting from classicism and ending in the interwar period. In conclusion, humor and names-related irony are found out to change their substance because of the literary, extraliterary, linguistic and extralinguistic space. The tension between these spheres, but also changes that occur in the real world with changing ideologies, social and political context are converted in aesthetic values. Characters΄ names are therefore a source of humor and also characterize their age. In fact, the kind, the quality of humor has its roots in the outdoors and is symptomatic. Thus, characters΄ names may be simultaneously a source of humor and knowledge of their age.

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