{"product_id":"intentions-in-comedy-discourse-a-linguistic-pragmatics-approach-to-stand-up-comedy-9783111504469","title":"Intentions in Comedy Discourse: A Linguistic-Pragmatics Approach to Stand-Up Comedy","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Ibukun Filani\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Linguistics - Pragmatics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIntentions in Comedy Discourse\u003c\/em\u003e presents a systematic pragmatic analysis of stand-up comedy. Drawing on previous literature on humour, socio-cognitive pragmatics, interactional sociolinguistics, storytelling, and media discourse analysis, the author proposes a theoretical perspective on comedy discourse that interrogates the way stand-up performers entextualise culture and society to instantiate situated actions with interactional, textual or social functions. The book addresses how we can objectively move from stand-up jokes to how humorous discourse \u003cem\u003edoes\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003ethings\u003c\/em\u003e in the real world, either in interacting with audiences or in creating heightened socio-political consciousness in them. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46440767783063,"sku":"9783111504469","price":15341.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9783111504469.webp?v=1769115994","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/intentions-in-comedy-discourse-a-linguistic-pragmatics-approach-to-stand-up-comedy-9783111504469","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}