Titlebook: Humour Theory and Stylistic Enquiry; Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju Book 2023 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licen

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Ridicule and Scorn in David Sedaris’s “Standing By”: The Responsibility of Humourwhat makes it a literary text as well. In the guise of an anecdotal narrative about the trials and tribulations of being put on standby, and how this situation can reveal some rather nasty things about human nature, Sedaris’s essay reveals itself to be an intricately written, highly structured, and

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The Linguistic Style of Nigerian Mediated Comedies in Englishndard varieties of English in foregrounding the comedy voice in the mediated texts. Extant studies had described the use of ungrammatical and unidiomatic English in Nigerian comedies as a setback. However, taking insights from the sociolinguistic frameworks like stylization and audience design, this

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Toward the Analysis of Online Supplication and Interactional Stance-Taking faceless individuals, who usually open several different social media accounts to beg daily on pages with heavy traffic. The “online beggars” often elicit humorous responses from sundry online commentators, and this creates a number of analytical issues. This is because it is often difficult to det

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An Analysis of Humour Style in Nigerian Situation Comedyrd, .. New York: Pantheon Books, 2007). In other words, they are unintentional and by implication, accidental humours. This may be the reason why, in spite of the ubiquitous nature of verbal blunders and attendant laughter, they are often overlooked as a source of humour and consequently neglected i