The fields of the eschatological lexicon in children’s black humor
Abstract
This study explores the inferential linguistic processes which underlie the phenomenon of black humour –or humour in bad taste– in a population of children. To this end, and based on the findings of the Project “Metapragmática del humor infantil: adquisición, perspectiva de género y aplicaciones” (Metapragmatics of children’s humour: acquisition, gender perspective and applications) (GRE 14-19, University of Alicante), we will focus on the linguistic devices used by children aged between 8 and 12 years to express black humour in their language production, looking specifically at the use of the scatological lexicon in this context.
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