Rhetorical Analysis of Stand-Up Comedy: A Case Study of Indonesian and Canadian Comedians

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.211020.004How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Stand-Up Comedy, Indonesian, Canadian Comedians

Abstract

This paper focuses on analysing the aspect of rhetoric between Women Overthink, Men Underthink, Russell Peters and Cowok Pasti Bohong, Tentang Cowok dan Cewek, Raditya Dika. The purpose of the analysis is to find the aspects of rhetoric are used by a script. This paper applies qualitative research and exposition methods, by analyzing, classifying and comparison the script using Robert and Warren’s rhetorical theory and Greene’s persuasion in stand-up comedy theory. Based on the findings of this research, it is concluded that style, Raditya Dika’s and Russel Peters’s script is irony tones to compare the habits and characters of men and women using informal as casual conversations with good friends. Diction, Raditya Dika’s script is abstract then concrete and denotation meaning. Meanwhile, Russell Peters and Raditya Dika’s scripts are specific, then an abstract and denotation meaning. Metaphor, Raditya Dika’s script is Half-dead Metaphor. Meanwhile, the Russell Peters script is not finding a metaphor. The implication of this research is to introduce rhetorical analysis into stand-up comedy content.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - R M Panjaitan
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TI  - Rhetorical Analysis of Stand-Up Comedy: A Case Study of Indonesian and Canadian Comedians
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