Taiwanese and Polish Humor
：A Socio-Pragmatic Analysis
Publication subTitle ：A Socio-Pragmatic Analysis
Author： Li-Chi Lee Chen
Publisher： Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Publication year： 2017
E-ISBN: 9781443873727
P-ISBN(Hardback): 9781443891325
Subject： H0 Linguistics
Keyword： 语言学
Language： ENG
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Description
Is there a specifically ‘Taiwanese’ or ‘Polish’ humor? Do people from Taiwan and Poland share the same sense of humor? How is humor related to politics, religion and the LGBT community? These questions represent the starting point of investigation of this. Some of the central issues explored here include: (1) how Taiwanese and Polish friends use various discourse strategies to construct humor; and (2) how different types of humor are employed on television variety shows to attract laughter. This book also provides an explanation of the prevalence of wúlítóu ‘nonsense’ in the Taiwanese society and how Polish ‘directness’ is reflected in humor. To understand how humor is culturally shaped and how it contributes to a talk-in-interaction, the three methodological approaches of conversation analysis, multimodal discourse analysis and interactional linguistics are adopted and combined here. This book will be of interest to both linguists and non-linguists who are interested in the social and cultural construction of humor.
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