Frauen–Männer–Witz Früher und heute. Einige Bemerkungen zum deutschen Kalauer

• Authors: Sikorska-Bujnowicz, Katarzyna

Title variants

DE

Women–men-joke then and now. Some comments on the German pun

Abstracts

EN

In this article an attempt is made to discuss the German joke regarding its assignment to the class of bad jokes in German. The question of what is a pun and what determines that a humorous text can be classified as bad or good is also important and very interesting. No less important are questions about the possibility of breaking all rules and norms, both of linguistic and social natures. These considerations are documented by examples of German jokes; on the one hand Loriot’s texts, texts from “Was guckst du?” and on the other from websites. The question of whether an analysed joke is good or bad still remains open despite all possible classification attempts, because its interpretation is subjective, to be assessed for what it is by the recipient from the outset.

Keywords

EN

humour studies; bad jokes in German; boundaries of good taste in a joke; joke and rule; German sense of humour

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Germanica
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 11

Dates

published

2015

Contributors

author

Sikorska-Bujnowicz, Katarzyna

other

Universität Łódź, Philologische Fakultät, Lehrstuhl für Deutsche und Angewandte Sprachwissenschaft, 90–236 Łódź, Pomorska 171/173

Identifiers

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/11089/18572

DOI

10.18778/1427-9665.11.04