The peculiarities of English humour

Laugh! Smile! Have fun !

The aim of the work is to show the main features of English humor. The tasks: 1) to examine and analyze the phenomenon of «humour»; 2) analyze the notion of «joke»; 3) to study the ways of expressing English humour; 4) conduct a questionnaire among students; 5) to consider the reasons for misunderstanding of English humour;

Gelotology - a psychological and physiological study of laughter, and its effects on the body.  Norman Cousins

= 5 min of laughter = 40 min of brake during When you laugh 80 groups of muscles work 1 min of laughter prolongs your life for 5 min = 40 minutes

Humour - a funny, sharp, witty mentality; the ability to present the events, faults, in a comic form.

“humour” = “liquid” was used to denote “the body fluids”

English Humour

- Waiter! Waiter! There’s a fly in my soup! - Please don’t speak so loudly, sir, or everyone will want one.

Joke - something that you say to make people laugh Anecdote - folklore genre, a short funny story, usually passed on from mouth to mouth.

Elephant jokes Dry sense of humour (the irony) Banana skin sense of humour

▪Pun ▪Absurd ▪Effect of dashed expectation ▪Grammatical oddities

Pun – use of a word that has two meanings * * * -Will you tell me your name? -Will Knot. -Why not? * * * -Why was computer late for work? -Because he had a hard drive

Absurdity - something ridiculous, a situations where something is contrary to a common sense * * * - Daddy, daddy! Can I have other glass of water? - What's wrong with you, son, that's your eleventh glass of water? - I know, my bloody bedroom is on fire.

- Don’t bother me. I‘m writing a letter to my boyfriend. - But why are you writing so slowly? - He can’t read very fast.

- Poor child! What a swollen cheek you have! Is it a tooth? - No, it is a sweet!

What can run all day without getting hot? The effect of dashed expectation – a situation when you expect another culmination What can run all day without getting hot?

Cold water

At whom do all people stare with open mouth?

Dentist

PUN GRAMMAR ABSURD DASHED EXPECTATION

Are the following jokes funny? APPENDIX 3 Are the following jokes funny?

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