Research Article

LINGUISTIC DEVIATIONS IN COMEDY: INCONGRUITY IN SPEECH ACTS

Number: 162 December 1, 2013
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LINGUISTIC DEVIATIONS IN COMEDY: INCONGRUITY IN SPEECH ACTS

Abstract

Language use, albeit mostly unconsciously, consists of ‘choices’ in all levels of language from ‘phoneme’ to ‘context’. Through these linguistic choices, whichenable ‘communication’ both to be established and to be analysed, the same eventcan be narrated in many different ways. A writer or a speaker structures his/her textthrough choices s/he makes from different levels of language, and thus s/he shapesthe way how to comprehend and analyse the text. The style of comedy plays is alsoshaped by the choices comedy writers make from different levels of language insuch a way that they generate laughter in audience. Especially ‘linguistic deviations’ which occur in choices made at the level of ‘pragmatics’ constitute thebasis for the language of comedy. Within the context of this paper, ‘speech act principles’ at pragmatic level and ‘deviations’ from these principles in texts will bediscussed, and the way how these deviations are employed in comedy texts will beexplained through several examples from various literatures

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Linguistics

Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

December 1, 2013

Submission Date

January 1, 2013

Acceptance Date

-

Published in Issue

Year 2013 Number: 162

APA
Demirkol Azak, N. (2013). LINGUISTIC DEVIATIONS IN COMEDY: INCONGRUITY IN SPEECH ACTS. Dil Dergisi, 162, 5-24. https://doi.org/10.1501/Dilder_0000000199