Pragmalinguistic Analysis of Humor in the Third Season of the British TV Series Blackadder

Đurić, Marko

prikaz prve stranice dokumenta Pragmalinguistic Analysis of Humor in the Third Season of the British TV Series Blackadder

Download
PDF 250.67 KB

master's thesis

Pragmalinguistic Analysis of Humor in the Third Season of the British TV Series Blackadder

Zagreb: University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2023. urn:nbn:hr:131:774599

Đurić, Marko

University of Zagreb
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department of English language and literature

Cite this document

APA 6th Edition

Đurić, M. (2023). Pragmalinguistic Analysis of Humor in the Third Season of the British TV Series Blackadder (Master's thesis). Zagreb: University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Retrieved from https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:131:774599

MLA 8th Edition

Đurić, Marko. "Pragmalinguistic Analysis of Humor in the Third Season of the British TV Series Blackadder." Master's thesis, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2023. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:131:774599

Chicago 17th Edition

Harvard

Đurić, M. (2023). 'Pragmalinguistic Analysis of Humor in the Third Season of the British TV Series Blackadder', Master's thesis, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, accessed 16 March 2025, https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:131:774599

Vancouver

Đurić M. Pragmalinguistic Analysis of Humor in the Third Season of the British TV Series Blackadder [Master's thesis]. Zagreb: University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; 2023 [cited 2025 March 16] Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:131:774599

IEEE

M. Đurić, "Pragmalinguistic Analysis of Humor in the Third Season of the British TV Series Blackadder", Master's thesis, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Zagreb, 2023. Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:131:774599

Cite this item: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:131:774599

Please login to the repository to save this object to your list.

Metadata

Title	Pragmalinguistic Analysis of Humor in the Third Season of the British TV Series Blackadder
Author	Marko Đurić
Mentor	Marina Grubišić (mentor)
Committee member	Irena Zovko Dinković (predsjednik povjerenstva)
Committee member	Janja Čulig (član povjerenstva)
Granter	University of Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (Department of English language and literature) Zagreb
Defense date and country	2023-07-05, Croatia
Scientific / art field, discipline and subdiscipline	HUMANISTIC SCIENCES Philology Anglistics
Abstract	Blackadder is a British television sitcom that aired from 1983 to 1989. It was written by Rowan Atkinson, Richard Curtis, and Ben Elton, and starred Rowan Atkinson as the main character, Edmund Blackadder. The series follows the adventures of the cunning and scheming Edmund Blackadder and his bumbling servant Baldrick in different periods of British history. This paper will focus on the third season of Blackadder, also known as Blackadder the Third, on how it breaks Grice’s maxims related to the cooperative principle, on how sarcasm was used in the show, and which theories of humor could be applied to analyze the jokes in the show. The paper seeks to identify every time that a maxim is broken in the third season of the series, which of the four maxims are broken the most and in which way they are broken. It also aims to identify every time that sarcasm is used in the third season of the series and which multimodal markers of sarcasm are used. Finally, the aim of this paper is to look at certain jokes in the show through the lens of different theories of humor, such as the superiority theory and incongruity theory, and to identify the theory of humor which could be applied to most of the jokes in the third season of the series.
Abstract (croatian)	Crna Guja je britanska humoristična serija snimana od 1983. godine do 1989. godine. Seriju su napisali Richard Curtis, Ben Elton i Rowan Atkinson, koji ujedno tumači i glavnu ulogu u seriji. Serija prati zgode lukavog Edmunda Blackaddera i njegovog sluge Baldricka u različitim periodima britanske povijesti. U radu je analizirano kršenje Griceovih maksima i korištenje sarkazma u trećoj sezoni serije Crna Guja. Osim toga, analizirane su i komične situacije u seriji uz pomoć teorija humora.
Keywords
Language	english
URN:NBN	urn:nbn:hr:131:774599
Study programme	Title: English Language and Literature (double major); specializations in: Linguistics, Literature and Culture, Translation Course: Linguistics Study programme type: university Study level: graduate Academic / professional title: magistar/magistra engleskog jezika i književnosti (magistar/magistra engleskog jezika i književnosti)
Type of resource	Text
File origin	Born digital
Access conditions	Open access
Terms of use
Repository	ODRAZ
Created on	2023-07-07 11:46:00