International journal
ISSN 2311-0759 (Online)
ISSN 2311-0740 (Print)


personal narrative

AXIOGENIC COMICAL PERSONAL NARRATIVES

The article deals with value-marked personal narratives about funny incidents as a genre of comic discourse. In contrast with other genres of comic discourse these narratives are presented as event messages that have happened with the narrator or with people known to him. The comical essence of such stories consists in a combination of incompatible positions, the first one shows an event as a real, matter-offact habitual state of affairs, whereas the second one describes it as a fantastic, pathetical or stereotyped reality.