Vietnam national university, HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST-GRADUATE STUDIES PHAN THỊ AN A STUDY ON THE MAIN FEATURES OF SHORT JOKES AND IMPLI
Trang 1Vietnam national university, HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
FACULTY OF POST-GRADUATE STUDIES
PHAN THỊ AN
A STUDY ON THE MAIN FEATURES OF SHORT JOKES AND IMPLICATIONS FOR TEACHING SPEAKING TO STUDENTS OF GRADE 12 AT NGOC TAO UPPER
SECONDARY SCHOOL
NGHIÊN CỨU VỀ ĐẶC ĐIỂM CHÍNH CỦA THỂ LOẠI TRUYỆN CƯỜI NGẮN
VÀ NHỮNG ỨNG DỤNG TRONG VIỆC DẠY NÓI CHO HỌC SINH TRƯỜNG
THPT NGỌC TẢO- HÀ NỘI
M.A MINOR THESIS
Major: Methodology Code: 60.14.10
HANOI – 2010
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A STUDY ON THE MAIN FEATURES OF SHORT JOKES AND IMPLICATIONS FOR TEACHING SPEAKING TO STUDENTS OF GRADE 12 AT NGOC TAO UPPER
SECONDARY SCHOOL
NGHIÊN CỨU VỀ ĐẶC ĐIỂM CHÍNH CỦA THỂ LOẠI TRUYỆN CƯỜI NGẮN
VÀ NHỮNG ỨNG DỤNG TRONG VIỆC DẠY NÓI CHO HỌC SINH TRƯỜNG
THPT NGỌC TẢO- HÀ NỘI
M.A MINOR THESIS
Major: Methodology Code: 60.14.10
Supervisor: Prof Dr Nguyễn Xuân Thơm
HANOI - 2010
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
STATEMENT OF AUTHORSHIP i
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ii
ABSTRACT iii
TABLE OF CONTENTS iv
INTRODUCTION 1
1 Significance of the study 1
2 Aims of the study 2
3 Scope of the study 2
4 Methods of the study 3
5 Design of the study 3
PART II: DEVELOPMENT CHAPTER I: THEORETICAL BACKGROUND 4
I.1 Humour 4
I.2 The distinction between humour and witticisms 5
I.3 The language of humour 5
I.3.1 The Incongruity theory 6
I.3.1.1 Structural ambiguity 6
I.3.1.2 Unconventional use of language 7
I.3.2 The Superiority theory 7
I.3.3 The Release/Relief theory 8
I.4 Humour competence I.4.1 Joke competence and humour competence 9
I.4.2 Social factors of humour competence 10
I.5 English language and the English sense of humour 12
I.6 Jokes and the use of jokes in teaching English as a foreign language 13
I.7 Ambiguity in language and humour studies 15
CHAPTER TWO: MAJOR LINGUISTIC FEATURES OF ENGLISH SHORT JOKES II.1 Ambiguity in English short jokes 19
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II.1.1 Focus of ambiguity 19
II.1.2 Proportion in the focus of ambiguity 23
II.2 Further analysis of ambiguity exploited in English puns 24
II.2.1 The ambiguity devices 24
II.2.1.1 Lexical ambiguity 24
II.2.1.2 Syntactic ambiguity 25
II.2.2 Proportion of ambiguity devices exploited in English humour 28
CHAPTER THREE: LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL DIFFICULTIES IN APPRECIATING SHORT JOKES OF NGOC TAO STUDENTS SUGGESTIONS ON IMPLYING TEACHING SHORT JOKES IN SPEAKING CLASSES III.1 Ngoc Tao Upper Secondary School’s Profile 30
III.2 Linguistic difficulties in appreciating jokes of students at Ngoc Tao High School III.2.1 Attitude of the learners to the humour in speaking lessons 31
III.2.2 Difficulties in appreciating English short jokes of students in Ngoc Tao High School 32
III.3 Cultural difficulties in appreciating jokes of students at Ngoc Tao High School 35
III.4 Suggestions to use short jokes in teaching speaking skill to students of grade 12 in Ngoc Tao Upper Secondary school 35
III.5 Finding 37
PART III: CONCLUSION 39
REFERENCES 41
APPENDICE 44
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ABSTRACT
English jokes tend to cause problems to language learners because of their linguistic, cultural and socio features In this study, the author examined the corpus of 100 simple jokes given in the book “America one and two liners” and some searched from websites to investigate the linguistic features of English short jokes The study is based on theories of humour From the findings of linguistic features of short jokes, the author suggests some activities for teaching speaking skill at a high school with the aim to use jokes as a useful material to motivate students
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