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Published on: 2011-09-28
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Original language: English

In today's multicultural and multireligious societies, humour and comedy often become the focus of controversy over alleged racist or offensive content, as shown, for instance, by the intense debate of Sacha Baron Cohen's characters Ali G and Borat, and the Prophet Muhammad cartoons published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. Despite these intense debates, commentary on humour in the academy lacks a clear way of connecting the serious and the humorous, and a clear way of accounting for the serious impact of comic language. The absence of a developed 'serious' vocabulary with which to judge the humorous tends to encourage polarized debates, which fail to account for the paradoxes of humour. This book draws on the social theory of Zygmunt Baumann to examine the linguistic structure of humour, arguing that, as a form of language similar to metaphor, it is both unstable and unpredictable, and structurally prone to act rhetorically; that is, to be convincing. Deconstructing the dominant form of racism aimed at black people in the US, and that aimed at Asians in the UK, The Rhetoric of Racist Humour shows how racist humour expresses and supports racial stereotypes in the US and UK, while also exploring the forms of resistance presented by the humour of Black and Asian comedians to such stereotypes. An engaging exploration of modern, late modern and fluid or postmodern forms of humour, this book will be of interest to sociologists and scholars of cultural and media studies, as well as those working in the fields of race and ethnicity, humour and cultural theory. GOOD NEWS FOR UK MUSLIMS: 48% of Brits want to get out of ... BAD NEWS FOR UK MUSLIMS: Who will fund the generous welfare state for you? Britain Suffers most from surge of (Muslim) immigrants. UK SUN Muslim immigration has ... President Trump: Irish writers have their say - irishtimes.com President Trump: Irish writers have their say As Donald Trump becomes US president we republish this reaction piece by a host of writers from last November to his ... British Culture: 9 things I still don't get about Britain ... Service is the worst in chain restaurants geared towards tourists. Service improves the further you get out of London though. Why do the British continually put up ... Gates of Vienna After being taken down twice by Blogger within a single week we got the message: Its Time To Go. Gates of Vienna has moved to a new address: Opinion - The Telegraph 06 Feb 2017 3:01pm Comment: Billionaires think they can survive the apocalypse in New Zealand? Trust me they'd be lucky to last a week News: Breaking stories & updates - News Telegraph Latest breaking news including politics crime and celebrity. Find stories updates and expert opinion. Should the UK remain a member of the EU or leave the EU ... On 23 June 2016 the UK will hold a referendum on membership of the European Union. The starting pistol has been fired (though in truth both teams have been jogging ... The Palestine-Israel language trap Mondoweiss Listening to language and terminology warns us about the wrong people and lets us know who we should listen to and who we shouldnt that is if we dont ... The Latest On AXS The AXS Cookie Policy. This website like most others uses cookies in order to give you a great online experience. By continuing to use our website you accept to our ... IT Pro Information Technology News & Reviews Officials picked up 'chatter' on possible France assault then were blocked by encryption. Attacks; Intelligence officials in Europe and the US were picking up ...
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