Abstract
<p>The ability to powerfully and persuasively impact the audience is an important part of one’s career and life. Humor in public speaking is an effective way to inform, persuade and connect with the audience. In this paper, I apply the framework of analyzing context in terms of three dimensions - physical, temporal and experiential, to study humor use in public speaking. The results of the analysis of ten speech samples show that in the selected public speeches, non-verbal elements play an important role in the humor practice based on the physical contextual dimension. The temporal contextual dimension is most widely utilized in humor design. Humor based on the experiential contextual dimension reaches higher level of efficiency. Humor that employs a combination of different contextual dimensions increases the value of the intended effects.</p>
Highlights
Humor studies that attempt to discover how humor functions have covered a wide range of fields and topics in the past decades
I apply the framework of analyzing context in terms of three dimensions - physical, temporal and experiential, to study humor use in public speaking
The results of the analysis of ten speech samples show that in the selected public speeches, non-verbal elements play an important role in the humor practice based on the physical contextual dimension
Summary
Humor studies that attempt to discover how humor functions have covered a wide range of fields and topics in the past decades. Though being dyadic in nature, humor sometimes presents itself in a non-conversational manner. This does not mean it is monadic. Public speaking is the process or act of delivering a speech or presentation involving an individual speaking directly to a live audience in a structured and deliberate manner in order to inform, influence, or entertain them. It is a vital means of communication and a crucial skill in any area of success (Carnegie, 1990; Lucas, 2005). I propose to study the humor mechanisms in public speaking, in terms of how humor is designed, produced, presented and received in public speeches of various forms, hoping to describe the strategy of humor application in public speaking
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