A woman in Czech jokes

Abstract

Authoress, in her article, presents question of woman’s stereotype in the background of issue referring to a view of the world, which is an ordinary knowledge of language’s user concerning surrounding reality, and a picture of a woman is its fragment. She notices that stereotype can be positive or negative, or it can connect both elements. Jokes analyzed in article present a woman in a negative way. Anti-model is formed opposite to standard set of characteristics, which, according to common social opinion, a woman should has. Described picture depends on a convention of type, to which joke belongs, because it allows to look at negative feminine characteristics with humor. Authoress emphasizes that picture of a woman in Czech jokes has universal character, international.