The construction of humor in memes about Edgar Allan Poe
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https://doi.org/10.51359/2175-294x.2024.263427Keywords:
humor, cognitive linguistic, Edgar Allan Poe, memesAbstract
This work aims to identify the construction of humor in two memes focused on the North American writer Edgar Allan Poe. Based on the structuring and multimodal characteristics of memes, the methodology is guided by a qualitative interpretive approach as well as by basic and descriptive nature. It articulates the incongruity theory of humor with linguistic cognitive theories. Thus, we can see that humor, in the selected memes, emerges from inconsistencies that are motivated, mainly, by conceptual metaphors (ontological, monomodal and multimodal) and metonymies.
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