Impersonated personae – paralanguage, dialogism and affiliation in stand-up comedy

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorenzo Logi ◽  
Michele Zappavigna
Keyword(s):  
Social Values ◽  
Voice Quality ◽  
Substantial Contribution ◽  
Cultural Stereotypes ◽  
Stand Up Comedy ◽  
Semiotic Resources ◽  
The Creation

Abstract This paper argues that paralinguistic resources employed by stand-up comedians to construe textual personae (impersonated characters) make a substantial contribution to the creation of humor by allowing the comedian to distance themselves from particular social values and by referencing shared cultural stereotypes. A stretch of stand-up comedy discourse is analyzed to explore how gesture and voice quality contribute to the construal of projected personae. These are mapped in relation to the interaction between comedian and audience to discern how they evoke specific social values. The results suggest that textual personae are deployed by the comedian to embody stereotypes that connote particular value positions, and that the comedian can construe blended or hybrid personae through the use of multiple semiotic resources. Impersonation thus constitutes a powerful resource for negotiating social values in order to generate tension and create humor.

scholarly journals A Social Semiotic Approach to the Attitudinal Meanings in Multimodal Texts

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 1160
Author(s):  
Yong Hu ◽  
Qing Qiu
Keyword(s):  
Picture Books ◽  
Multimodal Texts ◽  
Visual Narratives ◽  
Visual Semiotics ◽  
Semiotic Approach ◽  
Semiotic Resources ◽  
Multimodal Text ◽  
The Creation

As a special type of multimodal text, picture books for children are highly valued in the creation of meaning by the integrative use of verbal and visual semiotic resources. Informed by Painter and Martin’s framework of visual narratives, this paper primarily deals with the interpersonal meanings encoded and expressed by the two semiotics (image and verbiage) within the Chinese picture books. It aims to analyse the visual and verbal choices available for writers to establish engagement between various participants. In the hope of investigating the collaboration and interplay of verbal and visual semiotics to construe interpersonal meanings, it examines the attitudinal meanings inscribed or invoked in picture books, exploring the ways in which visual and verbal resources are co-instantiated to encode attitudinal convergence and also divergence.

The interactional context of humor in Nigerian stand-up comedy

Pragmatics ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akin Adetunji
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Compact Disc ◽  
Shared Experiences ◽  
Stand Up Comedy ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Call And Response ◽  
Interactional Context ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Linguistic Coding ◽  
Pragmatic Strategies

Research in the pragmatics of Nigerian humor is almost nil. This article, therefore, highlighted the major pragmatic strategies used by Nigerian stand-up comedians to involve their audiences in the creation of the interactional context of humor. Data comprised fifteen randomly-sampled extracts from the video compact disc recordings of the routines of five stand-up comedians. Analysis revealed the saliency of linguistic coding, stereotyping, formulas, call-and-response, self-deprecation, and shared experiences which not only involved both comedian and audience in humor production and consumption but which additionally reduced the stage authority of the comedian to the barest minimum. It was concluded that Nigerian stand-up comedy’s interactional tenor could be uniquely hinged on linguistic coding, essentially the code-alternation of Nigerian Pidgin (especially) and English Language.

scholarly journals Stand-up Comedy Humor Discourse in Local Perspective in Indonesia

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (7) ◽  
pp. 222
Author(s):  
Aris Badara
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Public Speaking ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Linguistic Context ◽  
Stand Up Comedy ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Data Source ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Local Perspective

Examining stand-up comedy humor discourse in local perspective in Indonesia is fascinating due to its uniqueness and complexity. This kind of discourse has some specific characteristics in terms of its creation and language use. A qualitative study was conducted with the data source from stand-up comedy records staged in 2016 by the stand-up comedy local community in Kendari, Southeast Sulawesi. The data were reduced to obtain the funniest humor discourse. Furthermore, the data were analyzed based on the creation technique and the construction elements of humor discourse in terms of linguistic and non-linguistic context. The research findings showed that the creation technique and the construction elements of stand-up comedy humor discourse in local perspective in Indonesia were in line with the general concepts and theories of humor discourse creation techniques namely: (a) rhetoric, (b) tone variation, (c) irony, (d) language misunderstanding, (e) wordplay, (f) verbal jokes, (g) sarcasm, (h) satire, (i) sexual satire, and (j) deception. In addition, the results confirmed that the most widely used of creation techniques were rhetoric, wordplay, and deception. The three techniques are more pronounced than other techniques due to the local comics circumscribed public speaking capability.

Democratic Anthropocene

2018 ◽  
pp. 128-150
Author(s):  
John S. Dryzek ◽  
Jonathan Pickering
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Collective Decision ◽  
Collective Decision Making ◽  
Earth System ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Ecological Democracy ◽  
The Creation

The formative sphere is the sum of activity encompassing the creation, questioning, and development of principles for collective action. This sphere gives shape to the meaning of the Anthropocene and how its implications are taken up in collective decision-making. An effective formative sphere should operate as a deliberative and ecological democracy capable of questioning its own foundations. This chapter shows how the formative sphere can operate in interactions between experts and citizens, between the most vulnerable and their advocates, between advocates and discourse entrepreneurs, across local experiments, and across the human and non-human components of the Earth system. Contemplation of Anthropocene conditions shows that in addition to established arguments for ecological democracy, there is a new argument: the agents necessary to rethink core social values and principles to guide practice for the Anthropocene can only flourish under democratic conditions. Democracy itself is transformed in this new encounter.

Repetition in Children Stories: A Dynamic Aspect of a Persuasive Strategy

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
Retno Purwani Sari ◽  
Cece Sobarna ◽  
Eva Tuckyta Sari Sujatna ◽  
Nani Darmayanti
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Emotional State ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Interpersonal Relation ◽  
Dynamic Aspect ◽  
Rhetorical Device ◽  
Children's Emotion ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

The patterning of repetitions, such a persuasive strategy, proposes the involvement of author’s emotion. Therefore, it potentially stimulates children’s emotion and imagination to explore their own thoughts and to learn to understand their world while reading. By investigating interpersonal relation involved, repetitions show participants’ attitudes. Thus, this study concentrates on how they work on children’s emotion and imagination, using pragma-stylistic approach. The focus itself is managed to answer the creation of meaning. In order to challenge the objective, this study was applied analytic descriptive qualitative method to 36 data of repetitions. By reviewing empirical indications, this study claims that repetitions reach emphatic prominence involving logical emphasis and emotional state. Both of them invest accumulation of ideas to promote emotion and expectation; leading to imagination in evaluating appropriateness to behave in the society. Consequently, repetitions are debatable as a rhetorical device to persuade children to adapt social values.

scholarly journals Affirming the American Dream via the Sports /Film Star

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seán Crosson
Keyword(s):  
American Dream ◽  
Substantial Contribution ◽  
Crucial Aspect ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Star Image ◽  
Individual Stars ◽  
New Hollywood ◽  
Capitalist World ◽  
The Creation

FROM BABE RUTH TO MICHAEL JORDAN: AFFIRMING THE AMERICAN DREAM VIA THE SPORTS /FILM STAR Its drama, its personalities and its worldwide appealmeans sport is the new Hollywood- Bell and Campbell (1999: 22) Celebrity is a crucial aspect of contemporary culture and one to which both sport and film make a substantial contribution. In film, the 'star image' that has developed around individual actors is a multifaceted, complicated and sometimes contradictory phenomenon composed of the roles they have played, their carefully orchestrated public appearances and the depictions of the creation of a star's image, as well as the actual individual around whom this image has evolved. However, arguably what is most significant about individual stars is the manner through which they express facets of living in today's society, including the nature of labour in the capitalist world (Dyer, 1986: 7-8). Stars are particularly important in...

scholarly journals Chess as a Social Value

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-37
Author(s):  
Kristine TANAJYAN ◽  
Nelli MELKONYAN ◽  
Sirarpi MOVSISYAN
Keyword(s):  
Social Values ◽  
Social Value ◽  
School Subject ◽  
Essential Step ◽  
Survey Point ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Algorithmic Thinking ◽  
Changing World

In this changing world, the process of preparing the child for life is getting more and more complicated. This article shows the importance of the ability to learn and the role of chess as a school subject. This article aims to study the benefits of chess in developing social values such as honesty, cooperation, discipline, foresight, and purposefulness. The research was carried out in 2 directions. The first phase of the study was to determine the attitude of stakeholders towards chess as a school subject. The second direction was to study the abilities, skills and values developed with the help of chess- the dates of made survey point the role of chess in developing schoolchildren’s thinking. After the analyses, it was apparent that chess promotes the creation and development of children’s linguistic-logical and algorithmic thinking, the ability to foresee, influencing the situation, assessing the importance of education by developed imagination and creativity. The involvement of chess in education was an essential step. It is of great importance in the development of our country.

scholarly journals Community Management of Forests and Social Capital in Tribal and Non-Tribal Villages of Odisha

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-186
Author(s):  
ANANYA BEHERA ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Substantial Contribution ◽  
Community Management ◽  
Case Study Method ◽  
Tribal Communities ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Bridging Capital

The paper focuses on the creation of different forms of social capital in the context of CFM (Community Management of Forests) in tribal and non-tribal communities in Odisha using case study method. What is found is that CFM has made a substantial contribution to the building of social capital. On the front of bonding, bridging capital, close similarities are observed between the tribal and non-tribal villages. The extent of linking capital is slightly higher in tribal villages than non-tribal villages.

Interesting Times…

1997 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 148-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sue Alcock
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Landscape Studies ◽  
Roman World ◽  
Ecological Variables ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Attractive Case ◽  
Regional Comparisons

The Chinese curse – ‘May you live in interesting times’ – has unquestionably fallen upon those involved in landscape studies, as many papers previously published in this journal attest. Derks' contribution adds an attractive case study, drawn from the Roman world rather than from the more frequently visited prehistoric periods, to this ferment. Derks reviews recent interpretive arguments, before turning to the landscapes of northern Gaul: landscapes in the plural, for in his study area Derks teases out the existence of two zones which develop in distinctly different ways. His major achievement is to divert explanations for this development from the more usual channels of thinking, such as pondering economic and ecological variables, or categorizing areas as ‘Romanized’ or ‘non-Romanized’. His addition of social values and cosmological principles as ‘filters’ helping to determine the trajectories followed by these two zones is bold and, whether or not one agrees with the details of his arguments, his basic contention – that such elements are just as vital as imperial policies and environmental conditions in determining the creation of provincial landscapes – cannot be challenged. I predict that within five years a wide variety of such locally sensitive, landscape-based case studies will be available from across the Roman world, leading to fresh analyses of provincial variability within the empire and to cross-regional comparisons no longer strictly determined by administrative boundaries.

scholarly journals Creation of Ethical Values in Thailand’s Isaan Literature for Sustainable Social Development

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 4098-4105
Author(s):  
Phramaha Pongtaratid Sutheero Et.al
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Human Values ◽  
Ethical Values ◽  
Building Model ◽  
The People ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Transmission Of Values

Values are those that are assimilated by the various healing processes that a person receives, which are instilled in the mind, which influence a person's behavior. Therefore, this study of the creation of ethical values in Isan literature for sustainable social development. It has three objectives were (1) to study ethical concepts in Isan literature, (2) to explore patterns of ethical value-building in Isan literature through Isan sermons and Mor Lam performances; and 3. To analyze the value of transmission of values through Isan sermons and the practice of Mor Lam to sustainable social development.The result of study found that. The concept of creating social values based on ethics in Isan literature from several sermons or Mor Lam performances caused by the desire to cultivate the values of the people in the Isan society, reflecting Isan society from the characteristics of the Isan people, creating applied literature and entertainment, inserting morality and doctrine, instilling in the knowledge of sin, merit, goodness and punishment, knowing the duties of a person. It is a concept that wants to create human values based on goodness with themes focusing on the role of the actors, communicating through characters. There is a summary of human actions and there are criteria for judging what is good? what is evil? what are the Dos and Don’ts? It is a model that emphasizes the creation of entertainment along with the socialization of behavior. The development of values-building model through many sermons or Mor Lam demonstrations towards sustainable social development. From analyzing the data from both documents and going into the area to store insights. It shows to see the strengths, weaknesses and points that need to be developed of creating ethical values in Isan literature for sustainable social development under the conclusion of sustainable development that "Do not get lost in the old things, not drunken new things, until getting the tool called "CCDE Model" which is a component of the model to create values through the sermons or the display of Mor Lam to sustainable social development, including conservation, continuation, development and extension.

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