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Delgado Lopez, Nayra B.

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Humor in U.S. films as perceived by the Puerto Rican ESL spectator.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Humor in U.S. films as perceived by the Puerto Rican ESL spectator./
Author:	Delgado Lopez, Nayra B.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2016,
Description:	433 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-09(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International77-09A(E).
Subject:	English as a second language. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10036413
ISBN:	9781339545868

Humor in U.S. films as perceived by the Puerto Rican ESL spectator.
Delgado Lopez, Nayra B.

Humor in U.S. films as perceived by the Puerto Rican ESL spectator. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2016 - 433 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-09(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras (Puerto Rico), 2016.

This dissertation applies the verbal theories of humor and Constructional Analysis to film scenes to explore the challenges the Puerto Rican English-as-a-second-language (ESL) spectator contends with when processing non-native humor. The analysis focuses on three categories of aggressive-type humor interactions (violent, immoral, witty) found in the following U.S. films: GoodFellas, The Wolf of Wall Street, August: Osage County, Fargo, Being John Malkovich, Burn after Reading, Annie Hall, Hannah and her Sisters, and Inglourious Basterds. Field-dependent and field-independent (FD/FI) styles were chosen to show the variability of humor comprehension among Puerto Rican ESL spectators.

ISBN: 9781339545868Subjects--Topical Terms:

516208
English as a second language.

Humor in U.S. films as perceived by the Puerto Rican ESL spectator.
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520 $a Three scientific fields: linguistics, psychology, and cognitivism are used as the theoretical framework to analyze aggressive-type humor. The linguistic approach describes the semantic incongruity of the joke. The psychoanalytic approach explains the beliefs of superiority in the aggressive character, as well as the reward of impulse gratification in the spectator who enjoys the pleasurable effect of aggressive humor. The cognitivist approach addresses the shifting perceptions (voyeur, visceral, vicarious) of the spectator regarding feelings of distanciation, empathy or sympathy toward the characters.
520 $a It is hypothesized that positive transfer from the first (L1) to the second language (L2) and that explicit manifestations of violence facilitate Puerto Rican ESL spectators' processing of humor. An important variable that is gauged is the Spanish subtitles that sometimes benefit but mostly disrupt successful humor comprehension.
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