Why So Serious? An Interdisciplinary Approach to Humour and Play in Satirical Discourse

Info autore

Stephen Skalicky
, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

Riassunto

Satire blends verbal irony, humor, and parody into a subtle critique, usually aimed towards a social or political wrong. Satirical language and media have been studied by a wide range of academic disciplines, including literary studies, media and cultural studies, mass communications, and various linguistic approaches (corpus, psycholinguistic, and computational). This broad interest in satire has led to divergent definitions and understandings of satire. The goal of this book is to wrangle these different empirical and theoretical perspectives into one place. Rather than arguing wholly for or against any one approach, this book highlights the ways in which these approaches complement each other and contribute to a greater understanding into the nature of satire. In doing so, an argument is advanced that satirical discourse can also be viewed as a various forms of play, which may serve as a useful criterion along which to discuss disciplinary variation associated with satire. In all, this book highlights the scholarly benefits of taking a serious look at the playful side of satire.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Stephen Skalicky
• Editore: De Gruyter
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Copertina rigida
• Data pubblicazione: 17.03.2025
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica inglese
• EAN: 9783110753417
• ISBN: 978-3-11-075341-7
• Numero di pagine: 208
• Illustrazioni: 4 b/w tbl., Tabellen, schwarz-weiss
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 15.5 x 23 x 1.7 cm
• Peso (della confezione): 432 g
• Serie: Language Play and Creativity [LPC] > 06
• Categorie: Englisch, Humor, Satire, Semantik, Diskursanalyse, Stilistik, Linguistics, Computerlinguistik und Korpuslinguistik, Humour, Sociolinguistics, Computational Linguistics, General studies, LIT016000 LITERARY CRITICISM / Humor, Satirical Product Reviews, HUM019000 HUMOR / Topic / Language, Language Play, Satirical News