The way humorous verbal communication is construed in a linguaculture can be analyzed within the framework of cognitive metaphor theory and its more discursive and cultural developments. Cognitive/conceptual metaphors are instrumental for framing humor as a communicative form which goes beyond mere aesthetic experience. This article focuses on the conceptualization of verbal forms of humor in Romanian. The examples are retrieved mainly from internet mediated communication, backed by corpus analysis, and compared to older literary examples (19th–early 20th century). The examples illustrate the stability of various metaphorical scenarios in the Romanian linguaculture. The analysis reveals that several conventional metaphorical scenarios exist in parallel, displaying what are the functions of humor in an emic perspective. In the case of the Romanian examples, the list comprises the disciplinary, aesthetic, and therapeutic functions. The main metaphorical scenarios are subsumed to (physical) aggression, food, and health domains. The scenarios associated with each domain emphasize a certain function: for example, the disciplinary function of humor relates to physical aggression, while the aesthetic function relates to food. However, the conventional scenarios also show combinations between these functions.

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罗马尼亚语幽默的传统隐喻场景

语言文化中幽默言语交流的解释方式可以在认知隐喻理论及其更具话语性和文化发展的框架内进行分析。认知/概念隐喻有助于将幽默构建为超越单纯审美体验的交流形式。本文重点讨论罗马尼亚语幽默言语形式的概念化。这些例子主要从互联网媒介的交流中检索，以语料库分析为支持，并与较早的文学例子（19 世纪至 20 世纪初）进行比较。这些例子说明了罗马尼亚语言文化中各种隐喻场景的稳定性。分析表明，几种传统的隐喻场景同时存在，从主位的角度展示了幽默的功能。就罗马尼亚的例子而言，该列表包括纪律、美学和治疗功能。主要的隐喻场景包括（身体上的）攻击性、食物， 和健康域。与每个领域相关的场景都强调某种功能：例如，幽默的规训功能涉及身体攻击，而审美功能则涉及食物。然而，传统场景也显示了这些功能之间的组合。