Two Immigrant Humor Styles of Stand-up Comedy A Linguistic Perspective

DOI

10.2991/icelaic-14.2014.70How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Immigrant humor style, Stand-up Comedy, Rhetorical Device, paralinguistic features

Abstract

Two immigrant humor styles of stand-up comedy: word-play and performing are discussed in this study with reference to related linguistic theories. By a comparative analysis of two immigrant comedians’ stand-ups, we conclude that figurative language is a distinctive feature in Joe’s jokes to make people laugh and the paralinguistic features are preferred by Russell. According to the global popularity of the two comedians, we tentatively conclude that a stand-up with active vocal and physical strategies is more easily identified with by audience of diversified social backgrounds, and can often get immediate feedback. Whereas, although a word-play style often leaves with deeper impression and makes one laugh longer, it’s hard to be taken in by all people with different cultural backgrounds.

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© 2014, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Chunqi Li
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DA  - 2014/05
TI  - Two Immigrant Humor Styles of Stand-up Comedy A Linguistic Perspective
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Education, Language, Art and Intercultural Communication
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 276
EP  - 279
SN  - 2352-5398
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