Humour in Relevance Theory: A Contextual Analysis of Tasi's Poetry
This study aims at exploring Tariq Tasi's poetry during the first spell of COVID-19 when face-to-face human interaction was drastically limited. He kept writing on contemporary issues using satire as a literary genre that employs humor, irony and ridicule to highlight social issues.This study is delimited to Tasi's Urdu poetry shared on Whats App in the months of March, April and May 2020 in the post-COVID-19 scenario. The discourse has been analyzed using the conceptual framework of DanSperber and Deirdre Wilson's (2006) relevance theory of humor using discourse analysis as a research method. The analysis reveals how using asocial media app as a swift means of circulation, the poet highlights contemporary social issues and follies of human behavior to which people can relate quite easily and further circulate to create ripples in the human minds to ponder. His poetry presents the sudden desolation of the world because of the unseen, unimaginably strong enemy called Corona that changed the world.
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Relevance Theory, Social Satire, Humour, COVID-19, Social Media
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(1) Asma Zahoor
Head of English and Mass Communication Departments, Rawalpindi Women University, Punjab, Pakistan.
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APA : Zahoor, A. (2022). Humour in Relevance Theory: A Contextual Analysis of Tasi's Poetry. Global Digital & Print Media Review, V(II), 112-122. https://doi.org/10.31703/gdpmr.2022(V-II).11
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CHICAGO : Zahoor, Asma. 2022. "Humour in Relevance Theory: A Contextual Analysis of Tasi's Poetry." Global Digital & Print Media Review, V (II): 112-122 doi: 10.31703/gdpmr.2022(V-II).11
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HARVARD : ZAHOOR, A. 2022. Humour in Relevance Theory: A Contextual Analysis of Tasi's Poetry. Global Digital & Print Media Review, V, 112-122.
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MHRA : Zahoor, Asma. 2022. "Humour in Relevance Theory: A Contextual Analysis of Tasi's Poetry." Global Digital & Print Media Review, V: 112-122
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OXFORD : Zahoor, Asma (2022), "Humour in Relevance Theory: A Contextual Analysis of Tasi's Poetry", Global Digital & Print Media Review, V (II), 112-122
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TURABIAN : Zahoor, Asma. "Humour in Relevance Theory: A Contextual Analysis of Tasi's Poetry." Global Digital & Print Media Review V, no. II (2022): 112-122. https://doi.org/10.31703/gdpmr.2022(V-II).11