Prototyp polskiego przysłowia komicznego w rozumieniu młodzieży z początku XXI wieku
Prototype of Polish comic proverb as understood by the youth of the early twenty-first century

Summary/Abstract: The article describes the results of a survey conducted among high school and French Philology students. The aim of the survey was establishing what the Polish comic proverb prototype is.The status of research on which the above analysis is based refers to a proverb prototype theory and the concept of a verbal comic aspect. The characteristics of the research method defines the way in which the survey was conducted. The description of the Polish comic proverb prototype is both direct and indirect. The former points to the features of the comic proverb provided by the respondents, while the latter defines semantic and stylistic as well as pragmalinguistic qualities of a particular comic proverb mentioned by the respondents. The results of the conducted survey let us state that comic proverbs are not only well known but also easily formed and modified according to different types of variant forming rules. The comic aspect of prototype makes use of vocabulary features, its blunt and colloquial aspect, emotionality and can be defined by means of pragmatic research tools. Violating conversational maxims is a necessary feature for humour to be present. Disobeying maxims as well as defining features of proverbs, novitas above all, make humour of prototypical proverbs be perceived as their defining quality. The contrast of cultural presupposition with the sense of a prototypical proverb is not a necessary element, yet it is sufficient for the comic aspect to occur. A prototypical comic proverb is not identical to a separate,most easily formed type of humour proverb, i.e. a wellerism.

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