The Language Of The Two Ronnies Comedy
Title: The Language Of The Two Ronnies Comedy
Category: /Social Sciences/Language & Speech
Details: Words: 250 | Pages: 1 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Language Of The Two Ronnies Comedy
Category: /Social Sciences/Language & Speech
Details: Words: 250 | Pages: 1 (approximately 235 words/page)
Introduction
This project will focus on the comedy of The Two Ronnies. Ronnie Corbett and Ronnie Barker are a comedy double act who came to fame after appearing on the Frost Report (1966) in various sketches performed with John Cleese. It was while working on the Frost Report that the name the Two Ronnies was coined. Many of the sketches were written by Barker himself under the pseudonym Gerald Wiley.
The two men are famed for
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from a television recording. (The Mastermind Sketch).
Methodology
I will break the data analysis down into four linguistic areas: Phonology (For phonetic symbols see appendix 1. For phonemic transcription see appendix 2), Semantics, Cohesion and Other Relevant Linguistic Features. I will analyse each sketch in turn, studying in detail all the areas I have mentioned above. After I have looked at all three in depth I will then compare them and draw my conclusions from the comparisons.