THE ‘AVAILABILITY HEURISTIC’ COGNITIVE PATTERN IN THE WAR-TIME UKRAINIAN HUMOROUS DISCOURSE
Journal: Polonia University Scientific Journal
Year: 2023

The article analyses the functioning of the war-time Ukrainian Humorous discourse in general and the ‘Availability Heuristic’cognitive pattern, as a variant of the ‘Heuristic analogy’ cognitive pattern in particular.’ The purpose of the research is to determine the role of this cognitive pattern in the creation of the comic effect in the war-time verbal humor in Ukraine. The paper presents the results of the stylistic and cognitive analyses of twelve Ukrainian wartime jokes where the ‘Availabili