ANALYSIS OF HOW THE INCONGRUITIES MANIFESTS HUMOUR: PERSPECTIVE FROM KANSIIME’S JOKES
Abstract
Purpose of Study: This study sought to investigate how the incongruities manifests humour in Kansiime’s jokes.
Problem Statement: Humour, a tool of language used by comics can be employed in various texts. Studies conducted from philosophical, psychological, sociological, anthropological and linguistic perspectives focus on humour and have shown that it is important to investigate the various ways in which humour can manifest itself in a discourse.
Methodology:In assessing Kansiime’s sketches an insight was drawn into how hearers are able to interpret texts so as to perceive them as humorous. Having adopted the relevance theoretical framework which tries to give account of how hearers interpret texts during verbal-communication it necessitated that we define the place of the hearer, and at the same time that of the speaker, since the comedian endeavors to judge their minds. For a successful interpretation of a text during a given discourse the hearer must be able to judge the intentions of the speaker, while the speaker must also be able to give sound context for the interpretation process.
Results: For an incongruous interpretation to be successful the hearer must be aware of the speaker’s communicative intention, it is then that the hearer is able to attain the intended cognitive effects. It is within the jurisdiction of the speaker to predict the interlocutor’s capability to access certain cultural assumptions.
Conclusion: The humorist in creation of humour takes advantage of rhetorical power such as hyperbole, metaphors. Irony is part of this kind of language use but in this study the mentioned rhetorical language has been used to create ironies.
Recommendation: Since this was a case study of one comedian which looked at how Kansiime uses irony to create humour, it is necessary to explore the use of this communicative feature across different comedians to establish its manifestation of humour.
Keywords: Incongruity, Humor, Irony, Audience Perception, Kansiime
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