Humour in Pakruok: Among the Luo of Kenya: Do Current Theories of Humour Effectively Explain Pakruok

dc.contributor.author	Owiti, Beatrice
dc.date.accessioned	2021-12-09T15:58:08Z
dc.date.available	2021-12-09T15:58:08Z
dc.date.issued	2013
dc.identifier.issn	1948-5425
dc.identifier.uri	http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/ijl.v5i3.3369
dc.identifier.uri	http://repository.must.ac.ke/handle/123456789/544
dc.description.abstract	Many studies have been carried out on the Dholuo oral literature genre known as pakruok(Parkin 1978, Amuka 2000, Masolo 2000 and Mwangi 2009). Other studies have been carried out on how humour is created in language (Walsh 1995, Alison 1998, Simpson 2003 and Salvatore 2009). However, these studies have not targeted pakruok as a source of humour. The use of pakruok as a joke telling session is an important sociolinguistic phenomenon that needs to be examined. This essay analyses the linguistic aspects used to create humour in pakruok in the Dholuo cultural, social and environmental contexts	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	International Journal of Linguistics	en_US
dc.subject	CDA,	en_US
dc.subject	Dholuo,	en_US
dc.subject	humour	en_US
dc.subject	Incongruity and pakruok	en_US
dc.title	Humour in Pakruok: Among the Luo of Kenya: Do Current Theories of Humour Effectively Explain Pakruok	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US