Sémiotique du discours humoristique dans Serge de Yasmina Reza

Abstract

: In Serge of Yasmina Reza, we are dealing with several types of humor which mostly focus on exploiting the body and its discursive representations. There is therefore reason to consider a certain semiotics of bodily representations which constitute the basis of humorous discourse. To be able to semiotically analyze the humor in Serge , we will first resort to the notion of figurativeness which concerns the capacity of language to represent reality: while appealing to bodily figurative representation, we will question the signifying mechanisms which found the humorous body as a discursive actor. After having identified the figurative processes of bodily humor, we will secondly attempt to identify the elements of a bodily semiotics of humor in the novel: the representations of the body exploited by humor would serve as a plan of expression for a much deeper semantic level which concerns the incongruity not only between the acting bodies and their respective environments but rather in the actor itself.