Identifying humor in stand-up comedy: A preliminary study

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dc.contributor.authorWawrzyniuk, Justyna
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-17T10:03:35Z
dc.date.available2024-05-17T10:03:35Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractThis paper describes a preliminary study examining how the audience of stand-up comedy approach humor analysis. By expanding the scope of the General Theory of Verbal Humor (Attardo 2001), it was possible to use the framework to aid and systematize the interpretation process, resulting in shifting the theory’s focus from humor production to humor perception. The first part of the paper introduces the main premise of stand-up comedy. The second part is devoted to the theoretical aspects, namely the theory of humor. The third part discusses the methodology of the preliminary study: a two-step interpretation task done by four audience members. The fourth and the fifth sections present the results of the study and discuss the implications. The outcome of the analysis gives an understanding as to what the audience may focus on during the interpretation process, which allows for identification of differences in humor perception.
dc.description.sponsorshipThe project is financed from the grant received from the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education under the Regional Initiative of Excellence programme for the years 2019–2022, project number 009/RID/2018/19, the amount of funding 8,791,222.00 zloty.
dc.identifier.citation"Linguistics Beyond and Within", 2021, Vol. 7, pp. 86-97
dc.identifier.doi10.31743/lingbaw.13455
dc.identifier.issn2450-5188
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12153/7077
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherWydawnictwo KUL
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjecthumor
dc.subjectstand-up comedy
dc.subjectGeneral Theory of Verbal Humor
dc.titleIdentifying humor in stand-up comedy: A preliminary study
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article
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