Discursive Tropes of Aggression Against Queer-Sexuality in Nigerian Standup Comedy.
The increase in the online presence of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) persons is astounding, despite the threat to their security, especially in the Nigerian context. Extending debates on linguistic and non-linguistic research on queer-sexuality, this paper examines the discur...
| Publicado en: | Sexuality & Culture Vol. 28; no. 6; pp. 2860 - 2879 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=180428949&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 180428949 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 10955143 DZ0 jtl: Sexuality & Culture issn: 10955143 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Dec2024 vid: 28 iid: 6 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 180428949 10.1007/s12119-024-10260-w ppf: 2860 ppct: 19 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 856KB tig: atl: Discursive Tropes of Aggression Against Queer-Sexuality in Nigerian Standup Comedy. aug: au: Ilesanmi, Omolade Osisanwo, Ayo affil: https://ror.org/03zcb2d36 Department of English Studies, McPherson University, Seriki Sotayo, Ogun State, Nigeria https://ror.org/03wx2rr30 Department of English, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria Institute of English Studies, Leuphana Universität, Lüneburg, Germany su: Aggression (Psychology) Human sexuality LGBTQ+ people Pragmatics Sexual minorities sug: subj: Aggression (Psychology) Human sexuality LGBTQ+ people Pragmatics Sexual minorities keyword: Discursive tropes Humour LGBTQ Nigerian standup comedy ab: The increase in the online presence of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) persons is astounding, despite the threat to their security, especially in the Nigerian context. Extending debates on linguistic and non-linguistic research on queer-sexuality, this paper examines the discursive patterns in the jokes of Nigerian standup comedians (NSCs), who occasionally project idiosyncratic ideologies about Nigerian LGBTQ persons. The argument advanced in this paper is that though LGBTQ contents are applied to challenge Nigerian laws against gender and sexual minorities, Nigerian humour producers continue to criminalise homosexuality and transgenderism comically. Using insights from Jacob Mey's Pragmatic Acts Theory (PAT) and Meyer's Superiority Theory of Humour (STH), this paper probes how pragmatic variables interact with humour strategies to tease out specific discursive tropes in the linguistic acts of NSCs. The selection of joke routines is purposive and based on Nigerian humour productions of "Pencil Unbroken Show" AY Live and African Kings of Comedy between 2013 and 2023 on YouTube media. Seven texts are selected and subjected to pragmatic and humour analysis. Ten discursive patterns alongside shared linguistic and situational knowledge, inferences, voice, reference and metaphor are deployed to demystify the motivations for queerness in Nigerian standup comedy. The study reflects aggression against queer-sexuality from the point of view of the Nigerian religious, political, socio-cultural and legal contexts. It also indicates that NSCs strive to enforce conservative standards and deploy humour as a corrective measure to identify LGBTQ persons as threats, offenders, victims, unfit, mentally unstable and illusive. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Sexuality & Culture is a copyright of Springer, 2024. All Rights Reserved. item: Sexuality & Culture holder: Springer Nature dt: @attributes: year: 2024 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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