Humour in the film "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" : a cognitive linguistic approach

dc.contributor.advisorRajamäe, Pilvi, juhendaja
dc.contributor.authorKonno, Henry
dc.contributor.otherTartu Ülikool. Humanitaarteaduste ja kunstide valdkondet
dc.contributor.otherTartu Ülikool. Inglise filoloogia osakondet
dc.date.accessioned2019-06-10T12:19:50Z
dc.date.available2019-06-10T12:19:50Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractHumour is a part of our daily lives. Even though we come across humour a lot, it is often not understood exactly why we laugh or what makes us laugh. Analysing humour would give us that insight. One prevalent medium of humour is film. There are many classical comedy films, but this thesis focuses on one specific film, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, analysing the humour in it using different theories from cognitive linguistics. Monty Python and the Holy Grail was released in 1976, and still is one of the funniest low-budget films out there. The paper gives a short overview of the approaches and theories in humour. It also gives an overview of cognitive linguistics and three theories from cognitive semantics. The goal of this paper is to analyse the humour in Monty Python and the Holy Grail using theories from cognitive semantics. The analysis tries to explain different aspects of humour in the dialogueet
dc.description.urihttps://www.ester.ee/record=b5239113*estet
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10062/64131
dc.language.isoenget
dc.publisherTartu Ülikoolet
dc.rightsopenAccesset
dc.rightsAutorile viitamine + Mitteäriline eesmärk + Tuletatud teoste keeld 3.0 Eesti*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ee/*
dc.subjectfilmid (teosed)et
dc.subjecthuumoret
dc.subjectkognitiivne lingvistikaet
dc.subject.otherbakalaureusetöödet
dc.titleHumour in the film "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" : a cognitive linguistic approachet
dc.typeThesiset

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