JOKES CONTINUUM: FROM PLANNED NARRATIVES TO THE HUMOR SPONTANEITY

Abstract The purpose of this article is to demonstrate that there is a kind of jokes continuum. This gradation would range from more narrative occurrences and previously known by those who report them (cases of canned jokes and personal anecdotes) to others, less predictable and proper to the verbal interaction (situation of conversational or spontaneous jokes). The analysis is based on oral statements, recorded in videos and broadcasted on the Internet, in order to identify the central marks of the different forms of joke presentation. The study is anchored especially in the theoretical assumptions by Raskin (1985), Norrick (1993), Marcuschi (2001) and Preti (2003).