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  • March 31, 2020
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Pragmatic Specificity of the English-Language “Stand-Up Comedy” Speeches

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Abstract

The article examines the modern humorous genre “stand-up comedy”, which becomes popular in Russia as a new type of comedy art and is tackled in rare studies within the framework of pragma-linguistics, cognitive linguistics and discursive analysis. The researchers’ attention is focused on analysing the scripts of “live” speeches of famous English-speaking comics with a view to identify the basic pragmatic strategies of their monologues. From the viewpoint of pragma-linguistics, the authors consider the number and types of accentuation signals used in a certain text.

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Author information

Svetlana Anatol'evna Ivanova

Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B. N. Yeltsin

Nataliya Grigor'evna Vel'dina

Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B. N. Yeltsin

About this article

Publication history

  • Received: January 14, 2020.
  • Published: March 31, 2020.

Keywords

  • stand-up comedy
  • прагматический потенциал
  • стилистические приемы и средства выразительности
  • юмор
  • маркированные словосочетания
  • pragmatic potential
  • stylistic devices and means of expressiveness
  • humour
  • marked word combinations

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