Resolving Ambiguity of Some Egyptian political Jokes Contemporaneous with 2011 Revolution.

Document Type : Research in linguistic and literary studies

Abstract

 The aim of this paper is to deal with the political jokes of the Egyptian Revolution in
2011. It aims at resolving the ambiguity of the jokes using the scale of specificity, which
focuses on linguistc and nonlinguistics aspects such as sociopragamtics.The paper also
argues that to understand the joke, one needs both a linguistic and nonlinguistic
knowledge.
 

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