Year: 2023
Type: article
Abstract: Lots of comic shows have been largely displayed on various TVchannels and social media. The presenters of such shows talk aboutdifferent issues such as political, social, economic etc. This study aimsat identifying the most common pragmatic strategies used to issue ironyin the two comic shows which are Last week tonight and Al-Basheerare chosen. . Also, it aims at showing the differences between Britishand Iraqi comic shows in these aspects. To test out the validity of thesehypothesis, eight comic videos are selected-four from each show. It ishypothesized that: (i) the presenter of comic shows may employdifferent pragmatic strategies to achieve irony; and (ii) pragmaticaspects such as speech act, pragmatic presupposition and context have avital role in determining the ironic meaning in British and Iraqi comicshows. The model adopted in this study is a pragmatic one. Its maincategories are: Grice's cooperative principle and implicature(1975),Yule's inference (2006), Mey's pragmatic presupposition(2001), Searl'sspeech act theory (1979), and Leech's (1983) maxims of politeness.The most important conclusions the study reached at are: (i) pragmaticaspects such as speech act, pragmatic presupposition and context have adecisive role in determining the ironic meaning in British and Iraqicomic shows;(ii) irony can be used as a tool of criticism in comicshows.
Source: JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE STUDIES
DOI: 10.25130/jls.1.4.6
Authors: Hana Qaiser Hamdi, Abid Hmood Ali
Institution: University of Tikrit
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4388737914