Publications
Publication details [#48677]
Balirano, Giuseppe and Marcella Corduas. 2008. Detecting semiotically-expressed humor in diasporic TV productions. Humor 21 (3) : 27–251.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter
Journal WWW
Annotation
This study explores semiotically-expressed humor in the clip ‘Jodhpur Station, 1947’, taken from a very popular televised British Asian sketch-show, 'Goodness Gracious Me'. The sketch's complex humorous apparatus depends on various comprehension levels, linked to encyclopedic, cross-cultural, and diasporic world knowledge.