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.
Georges, H. (2023). Sémiotique du discours humoristique dans Serge de Yasmina Reza. Alsun Beni-Suef International Journal of Linguistics Translation and Literature, 3(2), 206-228. doi: 10.21608/abjltl.2023.237562.1042
MLA
Hani Georges. "Sémiotique du discours humoristique dans Serge de Yasmina Reza", Alsun Beni-Suef International Journal of Linguistics Translation and Literature, 3, 2, 2023, 206-228. doi: 10.21608/abjltl.2023.237562.1042
HARVARD
Georges, H. (2023). 'Sémiotique du discours humoristique dans Serge de Yasmina Reza', Alsun Beni-Suef International Journal of Linguistics Translation and Literature, 3(2), pp. 206-228. doi: 10.21608/abjltl.2023.237562.1042
VANCOUVER
Georges, H. Sémiotique du discours humoristique dans Serge de Yasmina Reza. Alsun Beni-Suef International Journal of Linguistics Translation and Literature, 2023; 3(2): 206-228. doi: 10.21608/abjltl.2023.237562.1042
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