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Gerhardt2009
BibType INCOLLECTION
Key Gerhardt2009
Author(s) Cornelia Gerhardt
Title Intertextual and multimodal humour in the media reception situation: The case of watching football on TV
Editor(s) Neal R. Norrick, Delia Chiaro
Tag(s) EMCA, Sport, Multimodal, Humor, Media
Publisher John Benjamins
Year 2009
Language
City Amsterdam
Month
Journal
Volume
Number
Pages 79–98
URL Link
DOI 10.1075/pbns.182.04ger
ISBN
Organization
Institution
School
Type
Edition
Series
Howpublished
Book title Humor in Interaction
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Abstract

Based on natural data from media reception, the talk of television viewers watching football matches is analysed with regards to humor. Remarks on television are often greeted by (shared) laugher of the fans. However, laughter as such does not necessarily indicate humor. Instead, the celebrating fans also often laugh after goals. Principally, the fans appropriate the media text humorously either by multimodally referring to the pictures on the screen or by intertextually hinging their talk on the televised language. Formally, second person pronouns or sequences co-constructed with the sports announcers are used. Functionally, humor marks the activity as leisure. It helps the viewers negotiate world-views serving as contextualisation cue in the interpretation of the media text.

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