Book Description

This book deals with the construction of humor in newspapers. By analyzing the new type of interactive live sports commentary, it is important how humor is full of incongruities, produced through innuendo and irony, and the interaction between journalist and readers. It is not enough to develop the interpersonal dimension of humor alone. It is also important to build solidarity within the readership group. It is argued that it is very important to provide entertainment for the reader in his boring moments and thus to have a compensatory function in terms of intellectual dimension. Readers need to be involved in collective humor and even collective fantasy. The book describes how newspapers interact with a high-profile international news, for example a news about a football match.

Book Details

• ISBN:
  978-1-57159-725-0

• Binding:
  Paperback

• Size:
  7.6 x 5.3 inch

• Pages:
  237

• Year:
  2021