The subtleties of humor in culture: images, smiles, and words

Abstract

The various productions of speeches always appeal and have life within the complexity of communicative contexts of different order. Humor is one of those paradoxical events with which one faces everyday life and set the pace of what is social and cultural, being one of the examples of different forms of critical resistance occurring in all cultures. One of the paradoxes and questions presented immediately when dealing the phenomenon of humor is, how is it possible that by this action, the mood in its different variants, new meanings are constructed destroying other meanings? Perceive something as funny is conjuring worlds which operate under alternate constructive structures of reality with particular rules, which cross and are crossed by humans. As an act and as a form of interaction, the humorous speech shows us the way in which it is spoken, written, reproduce or transform the same social structures, on the basis that there are forms of shared meaning. As mentioned Iuri Lotman, the value of dialogue is not just the part that intersects, but spaces of meaning that occur between humans when the meet and new meanings are generated. These subtleties of humor will be discussed in this article taken as the core of it a figure that in Middle East has become a source of creation of stories, "Mulla Nasrudin." Paradoxes, metaphors, forms of argument, ambiguities of expression, speak of those "discursive doings" that are a part and are crystallized in different communities of meaning.