El humor como un instrumento de comunicación no siempre cómico

The aim of the paper is to re-analyze the structure of linguistic joke from the point of view of cultural linguistics (Palmer 2000, Wilk-Racięska 2012), understood as a multidimensional research system which, depending on the phenomenon under investigation uses various tools. This time we will use semantic, syntactic, pragmatic and cognitive tools. In the first place, we will outline the aims and the tools of cultural linguistics’ methodology as presented in Wilk-Racięska (2012) and the definitions of terms as humor, joke, etc. (Vigara 2013). The Raskin (1986, 2015) theory will be the analysis’s starting point. Taking into account the Raskin’s outline of a joke construction, we will try to analyze the internal structure of linguistic jokes and define selections of those jokes as seen as communicative acts, according to their semantic-syntactic, socio-pragmatic and pragmatic-cognitive features.