Humor pragmalinguistics is an interdisciplinary field that explores the intersection of humor, language, and context, examining how humor is created, conveyed, and interpreted through pragmatic and linguistic mechanisms. This article provides an overview of humor's role in communication, focusing on key concepts such as speech acts, implicature, conversational maxims, and face theory. It highlights how humor relies on the manipulation of language to generate incongruity, surprise, or irony, and how its meaning is shaped by the social, cultural, and situational context in which it occurs. The article also examines the role of shared knowledge and social identity in the co-construction of humor, as well as the challenges of humor translation across cultures and languages. By integrating insights from pragmatics, linguistics, and social interaction, this study offers a comprehensive understanding of how humor functions as both a social tool and a linguistic phenomenon, revealing its essential role in everyday communication and intercultural dialogue.

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