satire

Satire is a way of critical comprehention of the reality, allowing a journalist to implicitly express a negative assessment of socially significant phenomena, forming a certain civic position in the audience. One of the satirical genres of speech is the feuilleton. Understanding the content of the feuilleton and the socio-cultural context that gave rise to it, identifying the problem reflected in it and finding ways to solve it make the reader a participant in the process that M. M. Bakhtin called “co-creation of those who understand”.

The article deals with comic short poems of various types. It is found that these miniatures in their genre borders selectively express varieties of comical attitude to reality: authorial texts comprise the all comic types (humour, irony, satire) whereas folklore texts express humour and mockery. Main means of comical effect in poetic miniatures are described including style incongruences between the beginning and end of a poem, language play with sound form coincidences, nonce words and allusions.

The research is devoted to the consideration of mockery as a contemporary communicative phenomenon. The article describes trends of the modification in the genre mass media field, a characterization of some sociocultural background and preconditions of mockery’s origin is discussed, two variants of mockery – intellectual and marginal – are distinguished. Mockery as a sociocultural phenomenon appears as a result of carnivalization, critical evaluation and parody, which are based on the means of the comic – irony, satire, sarcasm.