Strategies in Creating Humoring Isan Humorous Folktale: Old Monk and Young Novice
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This article aimed to study strategies in creating humor in the Isan humorous folktale: old monk and young novice from 28 texts out of 45 original texts, using the framework of humorous theory and linguistic theory of humor. The study revealed that the humor was created by conflict between two characters in Buddhism: old monk and young novice, which was consistent with the theory of Superiority and Degradation, theory of Incongruity, theory of Relief of Tension and Release from Inhibition.The cruxto create humor in the texts was deceit, foolishness,coincidence, advantage, offence, whereas, the linguistics of humor was pun, sex symbol, quip, riddle and connotation.
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