Анекдоты о животных в современном испанском и русском языках Marynenko, Pavlo Joke Comic effect Function One of the genres of contemporary urban folklore is the joke. Each joke represents the situation which can use either a deviation from social canons causing comic effect or linguistic joke. The addresser tries to prepare the addressee for the joke; he chooses attitude and style in which it will be told. The using of a joke in a speech connected with its functions: entertaining, thematic, textual, argumentative and veiling function. Jokes constitute a special urban society protest against social, economic, political and other problems. Jokes about animals in Spanish and Russian use different and common ways of creating comic effect. Polysemy, euphemisms, antithesis, absurdity and absurd logic, effect of unjustified expectancy, metaphors and metonymies, unsuccessful communication and wrong interpretation of context are used in Russian and Spanish jokes. Precedent phenomena are very frequent elements in Russian jokes. 2026-02-19T13:33:42Z 2026-02-19T13:33:42Z 2015 book part Marynenko, P. (2015). Анекдоты о животных в современном испанском и русском языках. En: E.F. Quero Gervilla, B. Barros García y T. Kopylova (Eds.), Trends in Slavic Studies. URSS. pp. 769-779 9785396007017 https://hdl.handle.net/10481/111269 other http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ open access Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License URSS