Abstract:
The growing use of cell-phones in the modern society، regarding the various services they provide، has changed both our interpersonal and verbal communications. Being of relatively low cost، and able to simultaneously send a message for larger groups of people، SMS has indeed turned into a written medium which has resulted in a new culture in sending messages، especially among the youth. Considering the importance of this new way of communications، the present article studies its widly used application، i.e. the humors sent through SMS. The purpose of the research is to study، from a discourse analysis perspective، the most common techniques، and the most dominant approaches in forming humors. Having analysed the data، we found that in most cases the Grician Co-operative Maxims have been violated in different ways.
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Scientific-Research Quarterly "Persian Language and Literature Research" Issue 15, Winter 2009: 175-198 Date Received: 29/11/1387 Date Accepted: 22/04/1388 Mobile Phone as a Written Medium: A Discourse Study of Persian SMS Humorous Texts Behrouz Mahmoudi Bakhtiari* Arezoo Adibek** Abstract The increasing use of mobile phones in today's society, given the facilities its services provide, has transformed our individual and verbal communications.
Short Message Service or SMS is the name of the technology for sending low-volume texts via mobile phone, which currently has high demand among young people and the business community, and now, after Europe and Asia, it has also become a widespread phenomenon in the United States (Hallovi, Valentine 2003, Satchell and Thompson 2001).
(Refer to page image)(Refer to page image) (Refer to page image) Figure 1-Percentage of jokes present in short messages used in the semantic and pragmatic domains of language The aim of this research was the discourse study and introduction of some characteristics of verbal humor in Persian short message texts.
In this research, verbal humor in the SMS messages present in the statistical population of the study was examined from two perspectives: semantics and pragmatics of language.
By examining and analyzing the available data, the authors found that in a larger number of text messages, Grice's cooperative principles were violated in various ways, which caused the emergence of humor and jokes in them; the remaining samples related to humor arising from various types of ambiguities, similes, and metaphors, as well as humor arising from exaggeration and contradiction.
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