Honors Program
University Honors
Date of Award
5-2017
Thesis Professor(s)
Martha Michieka
Thesis Professor Department
Literature and Language
Thesis Reader(s)
Yousif Elhindi, Patrick Cronin
Abstract
This study investigates the creation of humor in the dialog of the television sit-com Seinfeld to gain a deeper understanding of humor techniques in a long format. By analyzing six episodes of the series, it is seen that the Incongruity Theory of Humor, violations of Grice’s maxims of the Cooperative Principle, and perspective clashes (such as miscommunications) are essential to the humor throughout each episode.
Publisher
East Tennessee State University
Document Type
Honors Thesis - Open Access
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
Recommended Citation
King, Lindsey N., "“A Show about Language”: A Linguistic Investigation of the Creation of Humor in Seinfeld" (2017). Undergraduate Honors Theses. Paper 385. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/385
Copyright
Copyright by the authors.