Exploring Canarian humour in the first locally produced sitcom in RTVC
Between December 2011 and May 2012, the public television channel (RTVC) in theCanary Islands (Spain) aired, in prime time, the first locally produced situation comedy.Titled La Revoltosa (henceforth LR), it was the most ambitious production in thechannel’s more than 14 years of existence. This seri...
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Cracow Tertium Society for the Promotion of Language Studies
2014-05-01
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| description | Between December 2011 and May 2012, the public television channel (RTVC) in theCanary Islands (Spain) aired, in prime time, the first locally produced situation comedy.Titled La Revoltosa (henceforth LR), it was the most ambitious production in thechannel’s more than 14 years of existence. This series was said to display a humorousinterpretation of Canarian society. Indeed, according to the executive producer, thecharacters reflected ordinary Canarian families. One of the attractions of the series wasthe inclusion of popular Canarian comedian Manolo Vieira as the main protagonist. Inthis paper, I briefly outline the strategies typically used by this important figure ofCanarian humour before I discuss two episodes of LR to explore the resources theyemploy to provoke humour. Particularly, I study the role played by language, andanalyse how characters and situations are portrayed, thus examining universal humourin contrast to regional or ethnic humour. This comparison between the humourstrategies used by Manolo Vieira and the ones employed in LR will enable us todetermine to what extent this sitcom favours the Canarian (ethnic) humour traditionallyrepresented by Vieira or rather resorts to more general (universal) humour strategiesand stereotypes |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9e5ce716c1c64e44bf886fdb2da841292022-12-22T00:01:18ZengCracow Tertium Society for the Promotion of Language StudiesThe European Journal of Humour Research2307-700X2014-05-0114Exploring Canarian humour in the first locally produced sitcom in RTVCMaria-Isabel Gonzalez-Cruz0UNIVERSIDAD DE LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIABetween December 2011 and May 2012, the public television channel (RTVC) in theCanary Islands (Spain) aired, in prime time, the first locally produced situation comedy.Titled La Revoltosa (henceforth LR), it was the most ambitious production in thechannel’s more than 14 years of existence. This series was said to display a humorousinterpretation of Canarian society. Indeed, according to the executive producer, thecharacters reflected ordinary Canarian families. One of the attractions of the series wasthe inclusion of popular Canarian comedian Manolo Vieira as the main protagonist. Inthis paper, I briefly outline the strategies typically used by this important figure ofCanarian humour before I discuss two episodes of LR to explore the resources theyemploy to provoke humour. Particularly, I study the role played by language, andanalyse how characters and situations are portrayed, thus examining universal humourin contrast to regional or ethnic humour. This comparison between the humourstrategies used by Manolo Vieira and the ones employed in LR will enable us todetermine to what extent this sitcom favours the Canarian (ethnic) humour traditionallyrepresented by Vieira or rather resorts to more general (universal) humour strategiesand stereotypeshttps://europeanjournalofhumour.org/ejhr/article/view/33linguistic humourstereotypesCanarian Spanishsit-coms |
| spellingShingle | Maria-Isabel Gonzalez-Cruz Exploring Canarian humour in the first locally produced sitcom in RTVC The European Journal of Humour Research linguistic humour stereotypes Canarian Spanish sit-coms |
| title | Exploring Canarian humour in the first locally produced sitcom in RTVC |
| title_full | Exploring Canarian humour in the first locally produced sitcom in RTVC |
| title_fullStr | Exploring Canarian humour in the first locally produced sitcom in RTVC |
| title_full_unstemmed | Exploring Canarian humour in the first locally produced sitcom in RTVC |
| title_short | Exploring Canarian humour in the first locally produced sitcom in RTVC |
| title_sort | exploring canarian humour in the first locally produced sitcom in rtvc |
| topic | linguistic humour stereotypes Canarian Spanish sit-coms |
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