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This paper explored some communicative errors in the statements of former Nigeria First Lady Dame Patience Jonathan (2010-2015). The paper examined specific communicative errors that resulted in incidental humour. The study was based on a corpus of six statements on web-sites presenting humorous bits of information. Each expression was identified and contextualized using the framework of error analysis and incongruity theory of humour. The main results of the study were that the selected expression deviated from the proficient speaker’s usage of lexemes, tenses and concord of subject and verb. These deviation provoked dissonance or discrepancies which triggered accidental humour that helped to douse the initial tension associated with kidnap of the secondary school girls in Chibok, Nigeria. It concluded that humour is the trojan horse of communicative errors.
This paper explored some communicative errors in the statements of former Nigeria First Lady Dame Patience Jonathan (2010-2015). The paper examined specific communicative errors that resulted in incidental humour. The study was based on a corpus of six statements on web-sites presenting humorous bits of information. Each expression was identified and contextualized using the framework of error analysis and incongruity theory of humour. The main results of the study were that the selected expression deviated from the proficient speaker's usage of lexemes, tenses and concord of subject and verb. These deviation provoked dissonance or discrepancies which triggered accidental humour that helped to douse the initial tension associated with kidnap of the secondary school girls in Chibok, Nigeria. It concluded that humour is the trojan horse of communicative errors.
Innovare Journal of Social Sciences
‘My Oga at the Top’: Pragmatic Failures in the Nigerian Inter-Lingual Communication Context and the Linguistic Mechanism of Accidental Humour2014 •
Humour is a multidisciplinary field of research. People have been working on humour in many fields like philosophy, psychology, sociology, literature, and linguistics. Within the linguistic field, humour can be evaluated from syntactic, pragmatic and semantic points of view. This paper work represents an attempt to show that research in pragmatic theory can contribute to our understanding of humour. The speech act theory has been selected, an exposition of which is followed by an account of how the theory can be applied to humour. Some research into humour has already been carried out using the speech act model. This is briefly described and evaluated. However, both the application of the theory to humour and its evaluation in this paper are mine. Speech act accounts of humour are based on the notion that humorous utterances are both unconventional and unpredictable. One way of exploiting our expectations, and thereby creating a comic effect, it is argued, is to violate the norms of conversational principles (Ferrar, 1992). This paper therefore explores how violation of the Gricean maxims is used to create humour in Stand-up comedies in Nigeria. The paper is based on the transcription of five episodes of the popular comedy series, A Night of a Thousand Laughs (hence, ANTL). The selected texts were transcribed and studied as the unit of analysis.
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Nigerian Jokes as Humour Construction: A Semantico-Pragmatic Study
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This paper which undertakes a semantico-pragmatic analysis of Nigerian jokes aims at finding out how far the Nigerian entertainment industry has been able to meet up the demands of the different theories of humour especially the incongruity theory which has it that humour is the combination of two or more ideas which are supposed to be utterly disparate. This means that the incongruity theory of humour serves as the theoretical prop for the study. Apart from the incongruity theory of humour, we equally looked at the superiority theory which states that laughter is at someone directed down at deformities from a perceived superior position and the relief theory which is a psychological theory of humour most famously associated with Sigmund Freud. This analysis was done using eight Nigerian jokes that touch different facets of the socio-cultural life of the Nigerian man having a semantico-pragmatic approach in mind. The paper finds that the life style of Nigerians is clearly depicted in the jokes they crack.
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