This dissertation offers a theory of the strategic use of rhetorical humor in political discourse. This theory accounts for the differences between intentional and unintentional humor while creating a structure for the identification of humorous utterances. The largest gap in the current state of knowledge concerning rhetorical humor is a lack of understanding regarding the connection between humorous attempts and persuasive situations. This area of concern is answered with a classification of the rhetorical strategies of humor. I propose three nested categories for the identification of actions that have amusement or laughter as an expected response. These three categories in order of increasing exclusivity are the risible, humor, and rhetorical humor. The risible includes all stimuli that create amusement, regardless of intention. The risible is not
Cherkashina T.Т., Novikova N.S., Sayenko T.I. Communicative search for a way out of the impasse in cross-cultural communication: conditions for narrowing the "gaps" between the languages //St., Moscow, Russia; E-mail: natalynov@yandex.ru 3) Candidate of Philological Sciences, Professor Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Nagoya University, Furocho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Japan; E-mail: tisayenko10@yahoo.com AbstractThe paper addresses the issue of linguistic differences in cross-cultural communication and discusses communicative strategies that could be used to mitigate them. The authors argue that lingua-didactic multicultural education can help remove the main obstacle in the traditional teaching of Russian as a foreign language (RFL) -a "clash of cultures"; and not only can introduce a model of teaching to write, read, and speak in Russian, but can also offer a system of instruction that will allow the students to understand the way Russians think, which surely would make it easier for them to "translate" a text from one culture into another in a non-native "cultural environment" providing a polylingual format for interaction.
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