Discourse types in stand-up comedy performances: an example of Nigerian stand-up comedy
The primary focus of this paper is to apply Discourse Type theory to stand-up comedy. To achieve this, the study postulates two contexts in stand-up joking stories: context of the joke and context in the joke. The context of the joke, which is inflexible, embodies the collective beliefs of stand-up...
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| Language: | English |
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Cracow Tertium Society for the Promotion of Language Studies
2015-08-01
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| Series: | The European Journal of Humour Research |
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| Online Access: | https://www.europeanjournalofhumour.org/index.php/ejhr/article/view/74 |