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Speech Genres

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Leontyev V. V. BANTER IN RUSSIAN AND ENGLISH LINGUA-CULTURES. Speech Genres, 2018, no. 2(18), pp. 119-126. DOI: 10.18500/2311-0740-2018-2-18-119-126

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Russian
Heading: 
Studies of individual genres
Article type: 
Article
UDC: 
811.111’271.16+811.161.1’271.16
DOI: 
10.18500/2311-0740-2018-2-18-119-126
EDN: 
XTGYQX

BANTER IN RUSSIAN AND ENGLISH LINGUA-CULTURES

Autors: 
Leontyev Victor Vladimirovich, Volgograd State University
Abstract: 

The research is devoted to the comparative analysis of banter in English and Russian lingua-cultures. The comparative analysis of the given type is being done for the first time in the home linguistics. The short analysis of the works by home and foreign linguists devoted to the studying of distinctive characteristics of banter has been done in the research. The analysis of the main characteristics of banter in the given lingua-cultures has been done in the research based on definitions of banter in the explanatory dictionaries of Russian and English languages and the English and Russian fiction of the second half of the 19th century and the 20th century.

Key words: 
banter
joke
mockery
speech strategy
linguistic politeness
linguistic impoliteness
linguistic (im)politeness
factor of an addressee
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Received: 
01.12.2017
Accepted: 
15.03.2018
Published: 
23.05.2018