Family and conflict in the humorous text: Conceptual blends and representations

Abstract

One of the compelling issues in humorous text is human relations in general and family relationships in particular. Based on a corpus of humorous stories published in anthologies and in specialized websites, we intend to analyze the mechanisms of humor creation based on conceptual blends involving all kinds of family ties: couples, parents and children, husbands and mothers-in-law, uncles, brothers. There will also be identified traits that make up the respective representations in these texts.
In the case of brothers, there have been generated many intertextual deconstructions, whether literary or in texts belonging the most diverse genres, including humorous genres. In this research, we also intend to analyze their presence. Starting from a Cognitive Linguistics theoretical framework, namely the theory of conceptual integration by Fauconnier and Turner, we examined the conceptual blends and how these recount, in current shades, a millenary history.