LINGUISTIC ASPECTS OF HUMOUR IN THE 18TH CENTURY LITERATURE
LINGUISTIC ASPECTS OF HUMOUR IN THE 18TH CENTURY LITERATURE

Summary/Abstract: The concern in linguistics of humour has the purpose to describe and explain its function in language. Linguistics has an important role in humorology because language is the medium of producing humour. During the 18th century there was a wide range of literary humour, much of this being sarcastic. We chose to analyse Jane Austen’s novel in order to show the role of linguistic aspects of humour in criticizing the society of that time.

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