Breaking frame and frame-shifting in Bassem Youssef’s satirical TV show al-Bernāmeg

This paper reviews how humor is made in terms of three theoretical models. First, it draws on the contribution of the structural semantics to the understanding of the text of the joke, especially the related notion of isotopy and the linear organization of the text of the joke. Second, this paper di...

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Main Author: Mohamed Mifdal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cracow Tertium Society for the Promotion of Language Studies 2019-07-01
Series:The European Journal of Humour Research
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Online Access:https://www.europeanjournalofhumour.org/index.php/ejhr/article/view/275