Comedy: The Mastery of DiscourseHarvester Wheatsheaf, 1993 - 186 Seiten From Shakespeare to light-bulb jokes, this book offers a comprehensive analysis of the nature and function of comedy in our society. Drawing on theories of language from Foucault, Levi-Strauss and Lacan, it argues that joking is both a pleasurable and necessary function of using language. |
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... comic behaviour would read as madness if it were read with serious implication . On the contrary , what texts present as disturbing madness will inevitably be funny if it is not accepted implicatingly . - - In our present Western ...
... comic behaviour would read as madness if it were read with serious implication . On the contrary , what texts present as disturbing madness will inevitably be funny if it is not accepted implicatingly . - - In our present Western ...
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... comic texts is widely taken as a mark of their high quality . In Chapter 6 I shall discuss the overall effects of such a mixture of discursive intention ; here I want only to note again that manoeuvring an audience in this way is always ...
... comic texts is widely taken as a mark of their high quality . In Chapter 6 I shall discuss the overall effects of such a mixture of discursive intention ; here I want only to note again that manoeuvring an audience in this way is always ...
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... comic texts we are dealing with ' funny characters ' who , being incompetent , must be either ' knaves ' or ' fools ' : too dishonest or too stupid to discourse properly . In consequence we are dealing with constructed intentions as ...
... comic texts we are dealing with ' funny characters ' who , being incompetent , must be either ' knaves ' or ' fools ' : too dishonest or too stupid to discourse properly . In consequence we are dealing with constructed intentions as ...
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Joking and Discourse | 12 |
Joking as the Abuse of Language | 34 |
The Third Position | 58 |
Urheberrecht | |
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