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Abstract
This study analyzes the new linguistic techniques used by the three satirists to create humor and to satirize the defects of society whether social, economic, or political. The three comedy shows that are selected to be the core of this study are Mohamed Sobhy’s “Mafish Moshkila Khales”, Basem Yousef’s “Al-Barnameg”, and Akram Hosny’s “Nashret Akhbar Alkhamesa wa Aleshroon”. The selected episodes of each show are analyzed by using two approaches: The GTVH and Norris’ Multimodal Interactional Approach (Norris’ MIA). The study aims at finding out the impact of using the new linguistic techniques that help the satirists to mock and satirize the political, economic, and social topics they aim at for the sake of humor creation. For this particular purpose, the study is organized as follows:
Introduction
The introductory part introduces the context, purpose, scope, rationale of the study, the research questions, and the outline of the study.
Chapter One: Review of Literature
This chapter is divided into three parts. The first part overviews what humor is, its forms, functions, and the traditional theories of humor. The second part tackles a general idea of Discourse discipline: Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), Media Discourse (MD), and Multimodal Discourse Analysis (MDA). The third part presents the genre of comedy shows, its effect on the audience, and the basic techniques of creating humor.
Chapter Two: Theoretical Framework and Methodology
This chapter is divided into two parts; the first part illustrates the two approaches utilized in the analysis of the data under investigation, the GTVH and Norris’ MIA. The second part deals with the data collection, and the procedures of Data analysis.
Chapter Three: The Analysis of the Linguistic Techniques Used in Sobhy’s “Mafish Moshkila Khales”
This chapter analyzes the selected episodes of Sobhy’s Mafish Moshkila Khales that revolve mainly around the social problems that face the Egyptians in their life. These problems include unemployment, the bad role of social media, and the educational system. The main aim of this chapter is to investigate the combination of both basic and new linguistic techniques of humor via using the GTVH and Norris’s MIA.
Chapter Four: The Analysis of the Linguistic Techniques Used in Yousef’s “Al-Bernameg”
This chapter analyzes the selected episodes of Yousef’s Al-Bernameg that handles several political and social problems in Egypt, such as the presidential election. The main aim of this chapter is to investigate the use of edited videos and images as new linguistic techniques that help in manipulating language, send underlying messages, and make humor. This will be conducted by using the two approaches.
Chapter Five: The Analysis of the linguistic Techniques Used in Hosny’s Nashrat Akhbar Alkhamesa Wa Aleshron
This chapter analyzes the selected episodes of Hosny’s Nashrat Akhbar Alkhamesa Wa Aleshron that revolve mainly around political and social topics. The researcher selects several examples where Hosny blends the verbal with the nonverbal communicative modes to create laughter in a new style.
Findings and Conclusion
This part is dedicated to the most important results of the research. The results reveal the ability of the new linguistic techniques of humor to communicate explicit and implicit emotions and ideas and make the audience laugh. This is through the use of the verbal and the nonverbal communicative modes in the edited videos, images, music, and the use of graphic editions. The study concluded that the three satirists succeed in manipulating their language and sending an underlying message to mock and satirize the political, economic, and social situation in Egypt by using verbal and nonverbal communicative modes. Besides, they help to redirect the audience’s way of thinking through their manipulation in the perception of the audience to reality. The second part presents recommendations and suggestions for further research.