THE EFFECT OF LANGUAGE VARIATION IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF SENSE THROUGH HUMOR IN "THE ONE MAN SHOW THE OTHER IS ME" BY GAD EL MALEH Cover Image

L’EFFET DE LA VARIATION LINGUISTIQUE DANS LA CONSTRUCTION DU SENS A TRAVERS L’HUMOUR DANS LE ONE MAN SHOW L’AUTRE C’EST MOI DE GAD EL MALEH
THE EFFECT OF LANGUAGE VARIATION IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF SENSE THROUGH HUMOR IN "THE ONE MAN SHOW THE OTHER IS ME" BY GAD EL MALEH

Author(s): Bouhadjar Souad
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Applied Linguistics
Published by: Editura Universităţii din Piteşti
Keywords: humour; variation; diastratic;

Summary/Abstract: Since antiquity, humour has been one of the means of relaxation in the conquest of sensation, of release, even of purgation of the pains of a suffering society; indeed, it assures several functions, moral, educational, cultural ... It is a tool among the tools of communication very solicited which can awaken the curiosity of the spectators to appease in addition to their search of pleasure and relaxation, the pleasure of approaching the problems of their society in a less aggressive way through the irony, in this regard we quote Lawrence Durell who says “you have to face reality with a touch of humor, in other words, you fail”. The humorist can also through derision exceed the prohibitions, those we cannot say without them to harm us, he staged a show in spokesman, exhausting the dictator, the politician of bad faith, and finally a society tainted with vices and who cannot see itself or judge itself. Our purpose in this contribution is to see to what degree the humorist can through the deliberate use of the effects of variation and certain aspects of the language as a communication method hold the recipient’s attention and guarantee this communication. Our choice of the corpus turned towards the monologue whose author is Gad El Maleh in “L’autre c’est moi”; because it targets a new form of speech, that of a blond talk opposed to speaking arabic in reference to the Western man and the Maghrebi man living in France, stereotypes that have developed in Europe following the discrimination events of one or the other. Our research will attempt to answer the following questions: • What linguistic processes are emphasized by the humorist in order to provoke laughter? • Does the humorist adopt certain contractions or particular liaisons in order to make people laugh? We think of linguistic aspects facilitating the expression of humor such as linguistic variation, elongations, hypercorrection, and other linguistic aspects are solicited for this purpose.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 25
  • Page Range: 35-40
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: French