An Analysis of Rhetorical Strategies in the Gendered Performances of Nigerian Male Stand-up Comedians

Chris Lekan Olawale

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An Analysis of Rhetorical Strategies in the Gendered Performances of Nigerian Male Stand-up Comedians

Authors:

Chris Lekan Olawale

Publisher:

Université Oran 2 Mohamed Ben Ahmed Oran

Journal:

Traduction et Langues Vol.16 Issue 1, pp.46-61

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

8/2017

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2001416242

pISSN:

2600-6235

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Abstract:

 Gender relations are enacted in the day-to-day lived experiences of men and women. Mundane practices such as talks and jokes may not only reflect the prevailing gender relations in society, but may also offer opportunities to contest them. Stand-up comedy, as a genre of comedy, is especially suitable in this regard because it is discursive in nature. Stand-up comedians achieve their aim of entertaining and exciting laughter often through gendered manipulations of language — hence, the genre of stand-up comedy offers a veritable site for investigating dominant gender representations in Nigeria. This study seeks to argue that rhetorical strategies are a chief means by which stand-up comedians succeed in their various representations of women and men, and by so doing implicate rhetoric in gender relations of power, as contested in the Nigerian context of stand-up comedy. The data for the study comprise nine selected volumes of two stand-up comedy shows in Nigeria, Nite of a Thousand Laughs and AY Live, which are analysed to examine the rhetorical strategies employed by Nigerian male stand-up comedians in their gendered performances.

Article Details

An Analysis of Rhetorical Strategies in the Gendered Performances of Nigerian Male Stand-up Comedians

Authors: Chris Lekan Olawale

Publisher: Université Oran 2 Mohamed Ben Ahmed Oran

Journal: Traduction et Langues Vol.16 Issue 1, pp.46-61

Document Type: Article

Publication Date: 8/2017

Document Language: English

Document ID (Org No.): 2001416242

pISSN: 2600-6235

women

gender

gender relations

Nigerian context

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Authors:

Chris Lekan Olawale

Publisher:

Université Oran 2 Mohamed Ben Ahmed Oran

Journal:

Traduction et Langues Vol.16 Issue 1, pp.46-61

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

8/2017

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2001416242

pISSN:

2600-6235