Towards a comprehensive theory of culturally constructed humour

Kianbakht, Sajjad

doi:10.7592/ejhr2020.8.2.kianbakht

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“…Thus, Stankić (2017, p. 95) submits that ‘the production, perception and appreciation of humour are closely related not only to the individual dynamic meaning construction in the cognitive linguistic sense, but also cultural conceptualisations of a particular cultural group’. It is against this backdrop that Kianbakht (2020) contends that cultural conceptualisations should be considered in identifying and analysing instantiations of humour. Meanwhile, this study has significantly stimulated interesting discussions about food, language, culture and humour in the Nigerian environment, it also stimulates further studies to explore the semiotics of pictorial food metaphors in the Nigerian world as well as social media conceptualisations of fast food in Nigeria's food culture.…”

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Food metaphors and humour in Nigerian online interaction

Adegoju

2024

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This article explores the complementary role of cultural linguistics in making up for the inadequacies of linguistics‐oriented theories of humour in unpacking culturally embedded meanings in humorous discourse. On the basis of purposively sampled internet memes, it analyses different types of cultural presuppositions in some food metaphors that netizens in Nigerian online interaction appropriate to negotiate gender and class identities, which reflect inherent beliefs, shared values and communicative practices in the Nigerian world. It applies Sharifian’s categorisation of the analytical tools of Cultural Linguistics―cultural schemas, cultural categories and cultural metaphors. The article concludes that mental spaces and conceptual blending are instrumental in forging a holistic conceptual approach, which can account for not only the linguistic but also cultural and discursive meanings of humour as an essentially social and interactional phenomenon.

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Food metaphors and humour in Nigerian online interaction

Adegoju

2024

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“…Meanwhile, some previous studies concluded that it is a rhetorical style lined with physical and mental health variables. As a rhetoric, humor is developed on the basis of local culture as it is closely related to norms and choice of language style of its speakers (Kianbakht, 2020). This concept was used in this study and the aspects of local culture, such as choice of Balinese language varieties and insertion of local culture was mapped in the study of Covid-19 humor discourses.…”

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Functional Pragmatic Analysis on the Humorous Discourse in Balinese Language as a Media of Socialization of Health Protocols during the Covid-19 Pandemic

Arnawa¹,

Karpika²,

Wijaya³

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This study describes the choice of humor style used to reduce the anxiety experienced by Balinese people during the Covid-19 pandemic and also explains the language variations as well as linguistic phenomena for constructing a humor. The relationship between humor style and linguistic features is expected to explain the specificity of the humor discourse structure of Covid-19 in Balinese language. The data of this qualitative study were obtained through note-taking and sorting out some short films which were displayed on YouTube from April to May 2020. Furthermore, there were 13 discourses used as data source, and some of the humor styles include affiliative, self-enhancing, aggressive and self-defeating. The humor functions as a foundation for information on topics arranged deductively and inductively. The variations in Balinese language used are variety of kepara (general) and kasar (low). Also, the dominating linguistic phenomenon includes code mixing and switching, as well as semantic inaccuracy regarding word similarity. This study can establish public-communication model in a friendly atmosphere to eliminate the impact of socio-psychological gap.

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“…However, humour is especially interesting as an element of cultural heritage for its ability to accumulate, keep, and share knowledge and experience of many generations, to reflect cultural norms. As language and culture are interrelated, the language is one of the tools of keeping and transmitting cultural conceptualizations, emerging from the group-level cognition across time and space (Kianbakht, 2020). Thus, in the article special attention will be paid to the study of national and cultural specifics of humour in British and American political and economic programmes.…”

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confidence: 99%