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Abstract
This paper explores the essential characteristics and communicative functions of stories, anecdotes, and jokes as three interrelated yet distinct narrative genres in modern linguistics. Stories represent extended narrative structures used for meaning-making, cultural transmission, and emotional engagement. Anecdotes function as concise, experience-based narratives that illustrate ideas and support conversational coherence. Jokes employ narrative or quasi-narrative formats to create humor through linguistic and cognitive incongruity. The article analyzes their structural features, pragmatic roles, and cognitive mechanisms, highlighting how these genres contribute to social communication, identity construction, and discourse organization. It also examines challenges related to cross-cultural interpretation and the pedagogical importance of narrative competence in language learning.
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