Why So Serious?

An Interdisciplinary Approach to Humour and Play in Satirical Discourse

Stephen Skalicky (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

270 Seiten

2025
de Gruyter Mouton (Verlag)
978-3-11-075341-7 (ISBN)

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Satire blends verbal irony, humour, and parody into a subtle critique, usually aimed towards a social or political wrong. Accordingly, satire has captured the attention of scholars spanning multiple disciplines, naturally leading to divergent definitions and understandings of satire. This book takes an interdisciplinary perspective to consider the ways in which satirical discourse can also be viewed as a form of creative language play, which may serve as a useful criterion along which to discuss disciplinary variation associated with satire. Through the lens of humour theory and a theory of satire as discourse, satirical texts such as satirical news and satirical product reviews are analysed using corpus and computational text-analytic techniques. Results from these analyses are used to describe the manner in which both professional and amateur satirists deploy language play in different satirical texts. This use of play in satire is then considered in light of definitions and results obtained from different academic disciplines, and suggestions are provided for additional interdisciplinary approaches to studying satire. In all, this book highlights the scholarly benefits of taking a serious look at the playful side of satire.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	29.5.2025
Reihe/Serie	Language Play and Creativity [LPC] ; 6
Zusatzinfo	4 b/w tbl.
Verlagsort	Basel/Berlin/Boston
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 230 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
Schlagworte	Humor • Humour • Language Play • Satire • satirical news • Satirical Product Reviews
ISBN-10	3-11-075341-3 / 3110753413
ISBN-13	978-3-11-075341-7 / 9783110753417
Zustand	Neuware