Humor in Comic Strips: A pragmatic Analysis of Nemi

Scientific Essay from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 8 - A, University of Minho (Arts and Humanities), course: MA English Studies, language: English, abstract: In this paper, I would like to bring this human characteristic in the realm of language and linguistic analysis, dissecting hidden discourses and meaning found in texts which creates humor. In this sense, to be more specific, I would like to attempt telescoping various explicit and implicit elements of linguistic structures found in the texts using a print medium, in particular, a comic strip Nemi. The following discussions will cover various concept indicators primarily used in language in order to give light to the whole of the project.