SOURCES OF HUMOUR IN FILMS. WHAT IS THERE IN A FILM THAT CAN MAKE US LAUGH?
SOURCES OF HUMOUR IN FILMS. WHAT IS THERE IN A FILM THAT CAN MAKE US LAUGH?

Summary/Abstract: Humour is a component of our everyday lives. Every day, as humans, we encounter hilarious circumstances and even humour itself. The humour we encounter makes us smile, laugh, and feel pleased, but why is this so? Why do we laugh when something comes across as amusing? We will find responses with some analyses and examples that will be given in this paper. The purpose of this study is to investigate how humour is employed in some selected films and what causes us to laugh when we watch these films. The examination of verbal humour is guided by Grice's maxim analysis of several selected conversations, as well as utterances from three films and four different episodes of one TV series. Furthermore, the discourse analysis approach is used to investigate the reasons for incongruity. Furthermore, speech act theories are employed throughout our research to investigate the details of how pragmatic variables impact and contribute to the formation of funny effects in film conversations or utterances. This approach demonstrates how language features may be used to construct, strengthen, or even undermine frames to produce comic results. Additionally, we use a pragmatic analysis approach to discover cultural references that play an active part in humour and how they impact the meanings of words to make them amuse. This research study reveals the various mechanisms by which language, cultural allusions, and framing interact together to elicit laughter, offering vital insights into the diverse origins of humour in films.

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