Humour Theory and Stylistic Enquiry

ISBN-13: 9783031403866 / Angielski

Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju

Spis treści

1. “Shamuz, Shamuz, everything is with Shamuz”: Making sense of Humour Theory and Stylistic Enquiry (Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju)

PART 1: Humour Theory and Literary Texts in European, American and African Contexts

2. Unifying the Humour Theories: A Stylistic Approach (Faye Chambers)

3. How to Escape the Stimuli-Reader-Trap in Humor Research? Using the Rasch-Model to Predict the Probability of the Humor Effect (Matthias Springer)

4. Humour and the ‘Mooreeffoc Effect’: Inversion and Subversion in Charles Dickens’ Holiday Romance (Katie Wales)

5. The Uses of Humor in Barbara Kimenye’s The Moses Series (Danson Sylvester Kahyana)

6. Making Sense of a Humorous Text: Ridicule and Scorn in the David Sedaris’s ‘Standing By’ (Lynn Blin)

7. Satire, Humour, Language and Style in Nigerian Literature (Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju)

PART 2: Language, Humour, Society and Media in Africa

8. The Linguistic Style of Nigerian Mediated Comedies in English (Ibukun Filani)

9. Humour and Language Use in the Era of Crisis: A Socio-pragmatic Analysis of Cameroonian Women (Comfort Beyang Oben Ojongkpot)

10. Humour and the Many Worlds of Political Cartoons (Oyinkan Medubi) 

11. Online Humour Supplication and Interactional Stance taking (Ibukun Osuolale-Ajayi)

12. A preliminary sketch of intertextuality in stand-up comedy (Ibukun Filani and Catherine Olutoyin William)

13. Pragmatic Acts of Humour in Selected Series of Helen Paul’s Alhaja Donjasi Comedy Skits (Monsurat Ahmed)

14. An Analysis of Humour Style in Nigerian Situation Comedy (Olawale Lekan Christopher)

O autorze

Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju is a Professor in the Department of English at the University of Ilorin, Nigeria.

Blurb

This edited book brings together scholarly chapters on linguistic aspects of humour in literary and non-literary domains and contexts in different parts of the world. Previous scholarly engagements and theoretical postulations on humour and the comic provide veritable resources for reexamining the relationship between linguistic elements and comic sensations on the one hand, and the validity of interpretive humour stylistics on the other hand. Renowned Stylistics scholars, such as Michael Toolan, who writes the volume's foreword against the backdrop of nearly four decades of scholarly engagement with stylistics, and Katie Wales, who in this volume engages with Charles Dickens, one of the most eminent satirists in English literature, as well as many other European and African authors who have worked ceaselessly in the area of humour and language, weigh in on the topic of language and humour in this volume. Together, they provide a variety of interesting perspectives on the topic, deploying different textual sources from different media and from different regions of the world. Part of the book's offering includes integrative stylistic approaches to humour in African, European and American written texts, examinations of social media and political humour in Nigeria, Cameroon and Zimbabwe, pragmatics and humorous stance-taking, incongruity as comedy in works of fiction, and a unified levels of linguistic analysis approach to the investigation of humour. This book will be of interest to academics and students of Linguistics, Stylistics, Communications and Media Studies, and Humour Studies.

Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju is a Professor in the Department of English at the University of Ilorin, Nigeria.