Metaphorical Humor in Satirical News Shows: A Content Analysis.

IF 2.2 3区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Metaphor and Symbol Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI:10.1080/10926488.2022.2160252

Ellen Droog, Christian Burgers

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Satirical news is often characterized as a hybrid genre that consists of three important communicative functions: it is (1) humoristic, (2) informative, and (3) evaluative. The Humoristic Metaphors in Satirical News (HMSN) typology demonstrates that metaphors can be utilized by satirists to express this hybridity by consisting of a combination of one or more of satire's core communicative functions. Nevertheless, the underlying principles through which metaphors are capable of humorously explaining and/or criticizing current affairs are less clear. To broaden our understanding of how metaphorical humor is used in satirical news to fulfill these functions, we integrate the HMSN typology with the General Theory of Verbal Humor (GTVH). The GTVH assumes that all verbal humor must draw from six interdependent Knowledge Resources (KRs). Through a content analysis of metaphorical humor used across various American satirical news shows, we investigated how these KRs are used to fulfill satire's core communicative functions across the various metaphorical sub-types of the HSMN typology. We found that: (1) some KRs can help fulfill the communicative function(s) of metaphorical jokes, while (2) some KRs constrain the options available for the expression of certain communicative function(s) or other KRs.

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讽刺新闻节目中的隐喻幽默:内容分析。

讽刺新闻通常被认为是一种混合类型，它具有三种重要的交际功能:(1)幽默，(2)信息，(3)评价。讽刺新闻(HMSN)类型学中的幽默隐喻表明，讽刺作家可以利用隐喻将讽刺的一种或多种核心交际功能组合在一起来表达这种杂糅性。然而，隐喻能够幽默地解释和/或批评时事的基本原理却不太清楚。为了扩大我们对隐喻幽默如何在讽刺新闻中发挥这些功能的理解，我们将HMSN类型学与言语幽默一般理论(GTVH)结合起来。GTVH假设所有言语幽默必须从六个相互依存的知识资源(KRs)中汲取。通过对美国各种讽刺新闻节目中使用的隐喻性幽默的内容分析，我们研究了这些隐喻性幽默是如何在HSMN类型的不同隐喻子类型中实现讽刺的核心交际功能的。研究发现:(1)一些隐喻语可以帮助实现隐喻笑话的交际功能，而(2)一些隐喻语限制了某些交际功能或其他隐喻语的表达选择。

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期刊介绍： Metaphor and Symbol: A Quarterly Journal is an innovative, multidisciplinary journal dedicated to the study of metaphor and other figurative devices in language (e.g., metonymy, irony) and other expressive forms (e.g., gesture and bodily actions, artworks, music, multimodal media). The journal is interested in original, empirical, and theoretical research that incorporates psychological experimental studies, linguistic and corpus linguistic studies, cross-cultural/linguistic comparisons, computational modeling, philosophical analyzes, and literary/artistic interpretations. A common theme connecting published work in the journal is the examination of the interface of figurative language and expression with cognitive, bodily, and cultural experience; hence, the journal''s international editorial board is composed of scholars and experts in the fields of psychology, linguistics, philosophy, computer science, literature, and media studies.