11. Sınıf İngilizce Hazırlık Ders Kitabı Sayfa 74 Cevapları Meb Yayınları‘na ulaşabilmek ve dersinizi kolayca yapabilmek için aşağıdaki yayınımızı mutlaka inceleyiniz.
11. Sınıf İngilizce Hazırlık Ders Kitabı Cevapları Sayfa 74
Lead in
Discuss the following questions with your friends.
1. What kind of things make you laugh?
2. What factors do you think affect the sense of humour of a country?
Reading
a. Discuss the following question with your friends.
Do you think cultural differences influence people’s humour perception and usage? Why/Why not?
CULTURAL SENSE OF HUMOUR
Humour is mostly defined as the tendency to experience or express what is amusing and funny, which is always accompanied by emotional responses and behavioural expressions such as laughter and smiling. Humour is a universal activity, but also culturally specific since people from different cultural backgrounds may perceive humour differently. Country’s history and language boundaries influence how individuals perceive and use homour. Although, the British and the American use the same language, there are remarkable differences in their humour perception and usage. Even though the British appear pretty serious people, they are more likely to make fun of themselves, self-deprecation, as well as the others. Since the British never say what they mean, more often than not with the exact opposite, and tend towards reticence and understatement, their humour is partly based on an exaggeration of this facet of their own character. While in conversation they, therefore, avoid confrontation; that’s why, their humour is more conserved, silent and subtle but with a dark or sarcastic undertone. They use irony which means saying less than you think or feel, in particular, in unpleasant or difficult situations to make someone look stupid. For example, if someone is very impolite or rude towards another person, you might hear them say, “She’s very friendly!”. The British also use irony daily, whereas it is not the foundation of American humour. On the other hand, the American sense of humour is generally based on physical comedy and more slapstick than that in Britain. Inasmuch as humour is open, rather than satirising the situation through exaggeration, less emphasis on understatement is seen. This is why American humour tends to be more ‘obvious’ and less implicit, and can sometimes be considered by other English speaking cultures to be over the top and ridiculous. American humour prefers more observational techniques, which means people focus on their observations of absurd daily behaviour and habits. The jokes usually start out with, “Did you ever wonder why…?” or “Have you ever noticed…?” Americans, however, have no sense of irony, and they also lack subtlety. When Americans use irony, they tend to express that they were “Only kidding”. They feel the need to make a joke more obvious than the British do, maybe this stems from a fear of offending people.
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