AN ANALYSIS OF NARRATION IN SLOVENIAN STAND-UP COMEDY JOKES

Stand up komedija je že vrsto let priljubljena v svetu. Z razvojem interneta je postala globalni fenomen in tako smo stand up komike dobili tudi v Sloveniji. Njihovi obrazi so z leti postali znani, oblikovali so si svoje ime in karakter. Zasledimo jih povsod: v klubih, gledališčih, na festivalih in prireditvah vseh vrst, v tiskanih medijih, na radiu in televiziji. Ob iskanju gradiva za našo nalogo ni bilo v slovenskem jeziku najti ničesar oprijemljivega, strokovnega o stand up komediji, zato smo morali poseči po tujejezični literaturi in se obrniti na kompetentne osebe, ki poznajo slovensko stand up sceno. Menimo, da je pričujoče delo doprinos k stand up komediji tudi v teoretičnem smislu. Osnovno sredstvo stand up komedije je humor. V nalogi smo predstavili teorije humorja, in sicer tri klasične: teorijo nadrejenosti, teorijo razbremenitve in teorijo neskladja ter dve sodobni teoriji: teorijo o humorju na osnovi semantičnega scenarija (SSTH) in splošno teorijo verbalnega humorja (GTVH). V teoretičnem delu smo opredelili besedilo in njegove značilnosti, pri čemer smo se osredotočili na govorjeno besedilo. Na podlagi teorije smo analizirali šale slovenskih stand up komikov. Analizirali smo način razvijanja teme, torej pripovedovanje, besedilo z vidika besedilotvornih in skladenjskih sredstev, opazovali značilnosti govorjenega besedila ter skladnost transkribiranih šal z značilnostmi stand up komedije.Stand-up comedy has become popular in the last few years. Due to the evolution of the Internet, stand-up comedy became world phenomenon. In Slovenia, stand-up comedy started to develop parallel to this occurrence. Furthermoreit is widely spreadtherefore, comedians are involved in various events, like festivals, club events, shows, theatre performances, in newspapers articles, on television and radio shows. Stand-up comedians became famous over the past few years. For the purposes of this thesis, we had to look for the literature among foreign authors, as there is not much written about stand-up comedy in Slovene language. For this reason this thesis presents contribution in Slovene area. The basic means of stand-up comedy is humour. In this thesis we presented three classic theories of humour: superiority theory, relief theory, and incongruity theory. Besides that we also included two modern theories of humour: Semantic Script Theory of Humour (SSTH) and General Theory of Verbal Humour (GTVH). In the theoretical part, we explained characteristics of the text, in particular spoken text. We analysed three texts taken from three different stand-up comedians. The analysis is based on theoretical claims that are explained in theoretical part. We analysed the ways the topics develop (e.g. narration), we looked for text formation characteristics and syntactical means, paid attention to the characteristics of spoken text, and observed accordance between transcribed text (e.g. jokes) and theoretical characteristics of stand-up comedy