Precedent Phenomena Research In The Russian Political Joke

The "precedent phenomenon" research is originated from "precedent text", which was brought out in 1987 by the Russia linguist-U.N.Каlаwоlov. After the birth of precedent text, V.V.Кrasnyh and other scholars put forward the new term- precedent phenomenon on the basis of precedent text theory. They think that precedent text can exist in the form of transcending language form. What's more, they all agree that precedent text should be extended to precedent phenomenon, which can be subdivided into four classes: precedent name, precedent discourse, precedent text and precedent context. Precedent phenomenon has certain nationality, culture and sociality. And it is the condensed interaction between language and culture, and is the direct reflection of national culture.The joke, which is refined by art, is a kind of artistic language. The text is short and the story is simple and powerful, but it can lead to an unexpected result: obtaining the artistic effect of smile. The most of the jokes reveal the abnormal phenomenon in life. They have the nature of satire and entertaining. The political joke is a kind of joke that mainly satirizes the political events or public figures. The political jokes exist in human life and include a lot of precedent phenomena, reflecting social cultural reality.Precedent phenomenon is a special cultural phenomenon, and it has its own language world views. The political jokes have humorous and notable effects because they are wildly known by the society. The appearance of the precedent phenomenon in the political jokes is not to activate itself, but to activate its perception constants, and to deliver the related significance. This paper is devoted to the analysis of precedent phenomenon in Russian political jokes. We can study Russian political jokes further and appreciate their unique humor by understanding the cultural significance of precedent phenomenon. This paper is divided into five parts:The first part is the introduction section, mainly introducing research background, present situation of the research, the research significance and the main research problems.The first chapter mainly introduces precedent theory and its development, the classification of precedent phenomenon, and it also explains the relationship between precedent phenomenon and natural culture by analyzing the sources, the implied perception constants of precedent phenomenon and culture significance. Chapter 2 firstly introduces the connotation of jokes and political jokes and the relationship between political jokes and precedent phenomenon, followed by the analysis of the characteristics of precedent phenomenon in Russian political jokes.The third chapter is devoted to revealing the cultural connotation of precedent phenomenon in political jokes through the source, the culture significance and the function of emotional evaluation of precedent phenomenon in political jokes.The last part is the conclusion of the paper.