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Publication details [#66295]

Mifdal, Mohamed. 2019. Breaking frame and frame-shifting in Bassem Youssef’s satirical tv show al-Bern?meg. The European Journal of Humour Research 7 (2) : 30–43.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
discourse strategy | frame | humor | irony | joke | laughter | mocking | television | text
Place, Publisher
Cracow Tertium Society for the Promotion of Language Studies

Annotation

This article unveils the mechanism emloyed to generate humor and laughter in one of the most popular satirical shows in the Arab world, Bassem Youssef’s al-Bern?meg. It centers on on what humor/satire does, how it does it and why these discursive strategies are employed.