Abstract The general perspective in pragmatics research on stand-up comedy is that the comedian co-produces humor with the audience. In this paper, I argue that the stand-up comedian’s communicative behavior is also partly rooted in egocentrism. To achieve this, I adopted a sociocognitive approach to intention and egocentrism in analyzing a routine that was performed in Chicago by Okey Bakassi, a Nigerian stand-up comedian. I operationalize egocentrism as one of the humor strategies of the comedian. While focusing on the propositional content of the comedian’s utterances, the analysis revealed strategies like privatization, ad hoc concept formation and ad hoc coherence, which the comedian used in individualizing the prior common ground to generate the needed incongruity for humor in the performance sphere.

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作为以自我为中心的沟通者的单口相声演员

摘要 单口喜剧语用学研究的总体观点是喜剧演员与观众共同生产幽默。在本文中，我认为单口相声演员的交际行为也部分植根于自我中心主义。为了实现这一点，我采用了一种社会认知方法来分析意图和自我中心主义，以分析尼日利亚单口相声演员 Okey Bakassi 在芝加哥表演的例行公事。我将自我中心主义作为喜剧演员的幽默策略之一。在关注喜剧演员话语的命题内容的同时，分析揭示了诸如私有化、临时概念形成和临时连贯等策略，喜剧演员将其用于个性化先前的共同点，以在表演领域产生幽默所需的不协调。