Analysis of Verbal Humour in Algerian Stand-up Comedy: The Case of Abdelkader Secteur’s Sketches

Abstract

As stand-up comedy, the crux locus of humour, is vividly proliferating in the present days, it becomes the frame of various investigations in different domains. On the basis of such site, the present research work aims at analyzing verbal humour in Algerian stand-up comedy, by taking the case of Abdelkader secteur's sketches, where the purpose of inquiry will focus on his verbal discourse which functions humorously and fulfils intentional meanings. Within the frame of discourse analysis; there will be an appeal to linguistic theories of verbal humour, a pragmatic/functional analysis of the humorist's intentional message, and a sociolinguistic approach to account for his motivations in code switching, with the relative auxiliary of a sampling, whose partaking contributes an aid in the analysis.