Jokes are not Innocent: Representation of Punjabis in Pashto Jokes
In this paper, the researcher analysed racist or ethnic jokes as a genre of discourse to investigate the issue of representation of Punjabis in Pashto jokes. The emphasis of the paper was on understanding stereotypes and symbols associated with the representation of Punjabis in Pashto jokes. The da...
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| Language: | English |
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Department of English, University of Chitral
2018-06-01
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| Series: | University of Chitral Journal of Linguistics and Literature |
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| Online Access: | https://jll.uoch.edu.pk/index.php/jll/article/view/216 |
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| Summary: | In this paper, the researcher analysed racist or ethnic jokes as a genre of discourse
to investigate the issue of representation of Punjabis in Pashto jokes. The emphasis
of the paper was on understanding stereotypes and symbols associated with the
representation of Punjabis in Pashto jokes. The data for the study comprised oral
jokes of Pakhtuns from Peshawar. The researcher followed John stone (2008) and
Linde (1993) for discourse analysis of the jokes. Further, the researcherfollowed
Althusser (1971) as theoretical framework to explain the reason(s) behind the way
Pakhtuns present Punjabis in their jokes. At the end, the researcher concluded that
ideology through cultural Ideological State Apparatus interpellates (i.e. calls out or
hails) Pakhtuns as subjects.
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| ISSN: | 2617-3611 2663-1512 |