Intentions in Comedy Discourse

A Linguistic-Pragmatics Approach to Stand-up Comedy

von Ibukun Filani

166 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Intentions in Comedy Discourse presents a systematic pragmatic analysis of stand-up comedy. Drawing on previous literature on humour, socio-cognitive pragmatics, interactional sociolinguistics, storytelling, and media discourse analysis, the author proposes a theoretical perspective on comedy discourse that interrogates the way stand-up performers entextualise culture and society to instantiate situated actions with interactional, textual or social functions. The book addresses how we can objectively move from stand-up jokes to how humorous discourse doesthings in the real world, either in interacting with audiences or in creating heightened socio-political consciousness in them.

• Reihe: Mouton Series in Pragmatics [MSP]
• Themen: Kunst Darstellende Künste Andere darstellende Künste Comedy und Stand-up
• ISBN: 9783111504469
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 27.01.2025
• Größe: 23 x 15.5 cm
• Verlag: de Gruyter Mouton