Twin Constellations: Parallelism and Stance in Stand-Up Comedy
Lindfors Antti
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2021042718674
Tiivistelmä
This paper addresses the interrelations between poetic parallelism and
interactional stance-taking in stand-up comedy by examining commercially
edited recordings of stand-up routines performed by two contemporary
comics. Methodologically, the article suggests a heuristic distinction
between 1) an approach to parallelism as a textual and rhetorical device
based on sequential repetition of units of expression, and 2) a more
positional or symbolic orientation that conceptualizes parallelism as a
higher-order structural and functional principle. It is concluded that
both types rely on iconic mappings across co-textual signs. The
flexibility of parallelism is simultaneously proposed as affording
diversity on the level of discursive presentation.
Kokoelmat
- Rinnakkaistallenteet [19207]