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Abstract
Crave TV's niche hit Letterkenny is packed with exercises in wordplay and examinations of semantics that serve various functions in its presentation of life in small-town Canada. This article examines how the progymnasmata of classical rhetorical education and the linguistic comedy bits in Letterkenny serve a similar role in preparing their users (and viewers) to both engage in a specific type of dialogue and establish and enforce moral boundaries as are accepted in the society in which they live and participate, and how fan circulation of these language memes reflects the transference of those morals to the culture.
Crave TV 的小众热播剧《Letterkenny》充满了文字游戏和语义学研究,在展现加拿大小镇生活的过程中发挥了各种作用。本文探讨了古典修辞学教育的前言和《Letterkenny》中的语言喜剧片段如何发挥类似的作用,使其使用者(和观众)既能参与特定类型的对话,又能建立和执行他们所生活和参与的社会所接受的道德底线,以及这些语言备忘录在粉丝中的流传如何反映了这些道德对文化的影响。
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The popular culture movement was founded on the principle that the perspectives and experiences of common folk offer compelling insights into the social world. The fabric of human social life is not merely the art deemed worthy to hang in museums, the books that have won literary prizes or been named "classics," or the religious and social ceremonies carried out by societies" elite. The Journal of Popular Culture continues to break down the barriers between so-called "low" and "high" culture and focuses on filling in the gaps that a neglect of popular culture has left in our understanding of the workings of society.