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Intentions in Comedy Discourse: A Linguistic-Pragmatics Approach to Stand-Up Comedy

Intentions in Comedy Discourse: A Linguistic-Pragmatics Approach to Stand-Up Comedy

Hardcover

Series: Mouton Pragmatics [msp], Book 32

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ISBN10: 3111504468
ISBN13: 9783111504469
Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
Published: Jan 27 2025
Pages: 178
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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 does things in the real world, either in interacting with audiences or in creating heightened socio-political consciousness in them.

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