O góralskim humorze
Abstract
The article begins with a short presentation of the state of research
regarding humor and comedy. Humor is the process which activates subjects
and discusses social functions. Next, past and present theories on the topic of
comedy (the comedic effect) created, for example, by philosophers and psychologists
are characterized. They all emphatically confirm that the conditions
for the existence of comedic word are through the recipient’s ability to
perceive comedy. The second part of the article is dedicated to the analysis of humor mechanisms in dialectical texts from the Podtatrza region. The highlander’s
previous sense of humor came through songs, classified by researchers
(Sadownik) as comedy. The most frequent mechanism of humor in these
works was touching on taboo topics, justified through concrete give-and-take
situations. Furthermore, the article is dedicated to the analysis of the appearance
of humor in the poetry of Wanda Czubernatowa, Zdzisław Barglik, in
the stories of Sabała, the tales of Andrzej Skupień Florek, Józef Pitorak, Józef
Pitoń and Irena Grobarczyk (in Orawa). The proposals illustrate the important
role of dialect in building comedy even though as compared to the Polish
language, it is limited in terms of linguistic wit. The author sees the cause of
this in the drop in use of the regional dialect which, in the long run, contains
two advantages in building humor: conciseness and accuracy.
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