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The Language of Humour in Stoppard's On the Razzle

Rohit S. Kawale, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.


Tom Stoppard
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Abstract

Humour is a field much neglected in literary criticism, and also in recently developed fields like stylistics and pragmatics, perhaps because humorous writing is never regarded as a classic. Likewise, language of humour has also not been studied much. Stoppard's language of humour needs some attention. In this paper, the author tries to analyse the language of humour in Stoppard's play On the Razzle by using the classification of puns given by Nash (1985) and also the concept of Malapropism. The author points out that a combination of a Malapropism and a pun, which the author calls a Malapropist pun, is a unique feature of Stoppard's humour.

Keywords: Humour, language of humour, Stoppard, Malapropism, malapropist pun

Introduction

Humour, in general, whether in any kind of writing or in purely humorous writing, has been neglected by critics and scholars. In that way, humour is never taken seriously! Particularly, very little has been written specifically about the language of humour. Being an area neglected by critics, it is also an area neglected by research scholars. With so much support from modern linguistics in general and from pragmatics and stylistics in particular, one would have expected much more attention to the language of humour. With pragmatics, we are now not just interested in the language of literature, but also in the language of advertisements, conversations and so on. But we are not much interested in the language of humour yet. This article aims at showing how the language of humour needs more attention.

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Rohit S. Kawale, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.
Sangamner College
Sangamner 422 605
Maharashtra
India
rohit.kawale@gmail.com
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