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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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Primary Language
English
Subjects
Linguistics
Journal Section
Research Article
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Publication Date
December 1, 2013
Submission Date
January 1, 2013
Acceptance Date
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Published in Issue
Year 2013 Number: 162