Wong, Ching Lam Bethany
Heritage in Humour: Investigating Concepts of Heritage in the Hong Kong.
Master thesis, M Religion and Cultural Heritage.
Abstract
Joking is a form of discourse that is often used in a group context and helps in confirming group identity and foster the sense of belonging. Each group has its own culture, history, and traditions and hence the joking culture of each community is unique and is based its own heritage, or in other words, on a set of assumed shared knowledge. In this thesis, the Hong Kong heritage is examined through the lens of humour, in particular through the stand-up performances of the Hong Kong comedian Dayo Wong. My aim is to explore what the underlying shared knowledge beneath Dayo’s jokes are and how he played with the shared knowledge to generate humour. To analyse Dayo’s stand-up content, I have chosen six segments from six of his recorded performances and discussed the underlying assumed shared knowledge that his jokes were based on. Because all his performances were performed in Cantonese, I have provided my own translations for all of the segment scripts, and I have also translated the title of the performances into English based on my understanding of Dayo’s intent. In conclusion, I have found that Dayo played with two levels of shared knowledge, the first level being factual knowledge and the second level being a collective emotional knowledge. Dayo played with them in various ways, including using linguistically based jokes, character impersonation, as well as non-verbal gestures and cues.
| Type: |
Thesis
(Master)
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| Supervisors (RUG): |
| Supervisor | E-mail | Tutor organization | Tutor email |
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| Mucciarelli, E. | | Faculteit GGW, Vergelijkende Religiewetenschap | e.mucciarelli@rug.nl | | Irving, A.J.M. | | Faculteit GGW, Christendom en Ideeengeschiedenis | A.J.M.Irving@rug.nl |
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| Degree programme: |
M Religion and Cultural Heritage |
| Academic year: |
2021-2022 |
| Date of delivery: |
16 Sep 2022 12:12 |
| Last modified: |
16 Sep 2022 12:12 |
| URI: |
https://rcs.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/664 |
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