A Cognitive Linguistic Approach of Verbal Irony in “The Nut Job” through Berger’s (2014) Humor Techniques

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English department, faculty of Alsun, Bani suef university

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This research conducts a cognitive linguistic analysis of humorous techniques in "The Nut Job" which discusses some themes regarding unity, friendship, selfishness, and searching for power. Davis (2019) points out that humor contributes to understanding social, political, ironical, and satirical attitudes. Thereupon, the current research adopts the theoretical framework of Berger (2014) which sheds light upon irony, satire, parallelism, and paradox as elements of humorous techniques. Furthermore, the study adopts a multimodal analysis since it combines syntactic manipulations with literary devices in "The Nut Job". More clearly, this multimodal approach detects phraseological and clausal levels in attaining irony, satire, paradox, and repetition. Methodologically, the research follows a quantitative–qualitative approach. Data is collected from the "The Nut Job". The study concludes that irony, paradox, satire, and repetition are triggered by NPs, and VPs . Furthermore, the syntactic complementations of the uncertainty verb "think" are proved to be of great help to achieve some themes of "The Nut Job".

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Alsun Beni-Suef International Journal of Linguistics Translation and Literature

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Available Online from 31 May 2023

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