Frauen–Männer–Witz Früher und heute. Einige Bemerkungen zum deutschen Kalauer
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In this article an attempt is made to discuss the German joke regarding its assignment to the class of
bad jokes in German. The question of what is a pun and what determines that a humorous text can
be classified as bad or good is also important and very interesting. No less important are questions
about the possibility of breaking all rules and norms, both of linguistic and social natures. These
considerations are documented by examples of German jokes; on the one hand Loriot’s texts, texts
from “Was guckst du?” and on the other from websites. The question of whether an analysed joke is
good or bad still remains open despite all possible classification attempts, because its interpretation
is subjective, to be assessed for what it is by the recipient from the outset.
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