Can Humor Competence Be Taught?

Tran Thi Ai Hoa

2018

Abstract

Humor competence is an important aspect of sociolinguistics for EFL learners to understand and appreciate humor. Differences in language uses, cultures and society can cause obstacles for achieving humor competence. However, it is necessary to define exactly what knowledge is necessary to a non-native speaker to process humor in L2 (Attardo, 2010). This paper is concentrated on an application of Semantic theory of humor (Attardo and Raskin, 1991), scalar implicature of unqualified humor support to humorous texts(Hay, 2001) and pragmatic competence Bachman (1990) for formulating EFL learners’ ability to appreciate humor in English jokes.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Ai Hoa T. (2018). Can Humor Competence Be Taught?. In Proceedings of the 1st Bandung English Language Teaching International Conference - Volume 1: BELTIC, ISBN 978-989-758-416-9, pages 389-396. DOI: 10.5220/0008218900002284

in Bibtex Style

@conference{beltic18,
author={Tran Thi Ai Hoa},
title={Can Humor Competence Be Taught?},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st Bandung English Language Teaching International Conference - Volume 1: BELTIC,},
year={2018},
pages={389-396},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0008218900002284},
isbn={978-989-758-416-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st Bandung English Language Teaching International Conference - Volume 1: BELTIC,
TI - Can Humor Competence Be Taught?
SN - 978-989-758-416-9
AU - Ai Hoa T.
PY - 2018
SP - 389
EP - 396
DO - 10.5220/0008218900002284