Publications
Publication details [#60172]
Sharma, Bal Krishna. 2015. Stylizing Dialects and Restructuring the Nation of Nepal in Stand-Up Comedy. Multilingua 34 (2) : 237–264.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter
Journal WWW
Annotation
This analysis of a Nepali comedian’s dialect stylization in a stand-up comedy show carried out for the diasporic Nepali community in Bochum, indicates that via the creative use of diverse Nepali linguistic practices, important identity work is performed both in the narrating (shared identity, humor) and in the narrated world (stereotypical identities of Nepali dialect speakers).