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Analysis of humour in the TV series Friends
LITEROVÁ, Anežka
The thesis deals with the problematic of humour and its relation to linguistics. It describes the main theories of humour and its classification. It further focuses on the pragmatics, specifically Grice's cooperative principle, and how humour is produced by its violation. It then describes the phenomenon of Wordplay. This knowledge is applied to create a taxonomy of humour which is then used to analyse the humorous situations in chosen episodes of the sitcom Friends. These humorous situations then also undergo a quantitative analysis.
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TV Sitcom Friends: Analysis of character humor strategies based on the violation of Grice's Conversational maxims
Šmilauerová, Anna ; Pípalová, Renata (advisor) ; Ženíšek, Jakub (referee)
Anna Šmilauerová: TV Sitcom Friends: Analysis of character humor strategies based on the violation of Grice's Conversational maxims Abstract The purpose of this diploma thesis is the analysis of the humor strategies employed by the characters of Phoebe and Chandler in the TV Sitcom Friends. The discovered prevailing strategies were then compared with the personalities of the two characters. The data analyzed were the written script of five exemplary episodes from the Season 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9, in which the utterances eliciting laughter from the audience were thoroughly analyzed from the point of Grice's Cooperative Principle: only those utterances were considered in which the characters violated one or more of the conversational maxims (quality, quantity, relation and manner). Phoebe was found to violate most often the maxim of relation, thus it is her being non-factual and non-conventional that constitutes her most entertaining quality. As she develops and grows more mature as a character, the frequency counts of this humor strategy evince a descending tendency. Chandler, on the other hand, is mostly being ironic, violating the maxim of quality. His character also gradually changes but his sense of humor remains the same - ironic throughout the show, as follows from the instances of almost fixed frequency....
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Irony in TV talk show
Ježková, Klára ; Hirschová, Milada (advisor) ; Janovec, Ladislav (referee)
This work deals with irony in popular television genre, entertaining talk show. The first partdefines the basic concepts which we work with (public communication, cooperative principle, politeness, irony). In the second part there is characterized the media dialogue, specifically talk show. The third part deals with particular public television's talk show - Všechnopárty. This thesis examines, on selected examples, how irony works in the show, how it manifests itself and how it is used by participants in talk show. The main finding is that irony in Všechnopárty is used as a communication game, mostly as a specific variant of irony called teasing (banter). It is a communication acting describable as pretended threatening of face of communication partner or of your own face, resp. communication which intentionally and transparently for the viewer violates Leech's courtesy maxima (most often tactfulness and modesty maxima).Teasing irony in Všechnopárty is used as a fun element increasing attractiveness of the show for spectators and participants of the talk show are usually knowingly involved in it. KEYWORDS communications, media dialogue, talk show, cooperative principle, politeness, irony, teasing
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Politeness in Communication of Women and Men
Kaushiková, Martina ; Pacovská, Jasňa (advisor) ; Vaňková, Irena (referee)
The bachelor thesis deals with the issues of politeness in communication of women and men. The focus is on three types of communication situation, which differ depending on the gender of the communicators: 1) communicators are only women, 2) communicators are only men, 3) communicators are both men and women. The theoretical part of the thesis deals with delimiting communication, politeness concepts and social roles. The work is delimited towards Grice's cooperative principle in relation to Leech's concept of politeness. The aim of the bachelor thesis is to compare the theory and the approach of individual linguists with real displays of politeness in common communication on the basis of a questionnaire. Special attention is given to the characteristic of language devices used in polite communication; the use of language devices by males and females is compared. An integral component of the work is correlating the differences in the conception as well as in the display of politeness in men and women with the differences in the language perception of the world of a man and a woman.
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TV Sitcom Friends: Analysis of character humor strategies based on the violation of Grice's Conversational maxims
Šmilauerová, Anna ; Pípalová, Renata (advisor) ; Ženíšek, Jakub (referee)
Anna Šmilauerová: TV Sitcom Friends: Analysis of character humor strategies based on the violation of Grice's Conversational maxims Abstract The purpose of this diploma thesis is the analysis of the humor strategies employed by the characters of Phoebe and Chandler in the TV Sitcom Friends. The discovered prevailing strategies were then compared with the personalities of the two characters. The data analyzed were the written script of five exemplary episodes from the Season 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9, in which the utterances eliciting laughter from the audience were thoroughly analyzed from the point of Grice's Cooperative Principle: only those utterances were considered in which the characters violated one or more of the conversational maxims (quality, quantity, relation and manner). Phoebe was found to violate most often the maxim of relation, thus it is her being non-factual and non-conventional that constitutes her most entertaining quality. As she develops and grows more mature as a character, the frequency counts of this humor strategy evince a descending tendency. Chandler, on the other hand, is mostly being ironic, violating the maxim of quality. His character also gradually changes but his sense of humor remains the same - ironic throughout the show, as follows from the instances of almost fixed frequency....
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The comparing of Grice's and Leech's conversational principles
Marhanová, Kateřina ; Pacovská, Jasňa (advisor) ; Mareš, Petr (referee)
The goal of this bachelor thesis is to explore Herbert Paul Grice's Cooperative Principle and Geoffrey Neil Leech's Politeness Principle and demonstrate on the basis of these findings the relationship between cooperative communication and courtesy communication by means of illustration of concrete texts. The theoretical part is a pivotal component of the thesis. It focuses in detail on the principles of the Cooperative Principle (maxims of Quantity, Quality, Relation and Manner), on the features of cooperative behaviour, on the questions of Conversational Implicature and its examples. Another chapter deals with interrelationship of the Cooperative and the Politeness Principles. The principles of the Politeness Principle (the Tact Maxim, the Generosity Maxim, the Aprobation Maxim, the Modesty Maxim, the Agreement Maxim and the Sympathy Maxim) and metalinguistic aspects of politeness are another component of the theoretical part. The practical part analyses a verbal behaviour of communication partners in the light of observance and violation of the Cooperative and the Politeness Principles by means of ten transcribed conversations. The final part of the thesis formulates which principles have prominence and which of them are shaded in these texts. KEYWORDS The Cooperative Principle Grice's maxims...
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Grice's Cooperative Principle in Relation to Leech's Politeness Principle
Belingerová, Tereza ; Pacovská, Jasňa (advisor) ; Adam, Robert (referee)
Grice's Cooperative principle in Relation to Leech's Politeness Principle Abstract: The purpose of this work is to confront the theoretical knowledge of the cooperative principle of H. P. Grice and the politeness principle of G. N. Leech with practical examples from the interviews of various communication situations. The work includes characteristic of both prinicples based od review of the literature and is issumpplemented by expert commentaries. Material for practical work contains excerpts from recordings of conversations in private and public situations. Subsequent analysis of records shows tendencies which normally appear in accepting and not accepting cooperative and politeness principle. The survey results showed a high level of violation of both mentioned principles. Key words: illocutionary act, implicature, cooperative principle, pragmatics, politeness principle, strategies of verbal communication
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