Intentions in comedy discourse : a linguistic-pragmatics approach to stand-up comedy /
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 discou...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter Mouton,
[2025]
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| Series: | Mouton series in pragmatics ;
32. |
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| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | xi, 166 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 156-164) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9783111504469 3111504468 |
| ISSN: | 1864-6409 ; |