Author(s)

Jing Huang ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of English Studies, Xi'an International Studies University, Xi'an, China

Corresponding Author

Jing Huang

ABSTRACT

This study employs Haugh and Bousfield's Mock Impoliteness Framework to investigate the use of a classic CCTV Spring Festival Gala sketch titled "Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow". Through qualitative analysis, the research identifies three categories of mock impoliteness: speaker's mock impoliteness towards themselves, speaker's mock impoliteness towards the direct hearer, and speaker's mock impoliteness towards a third party. Contextualized within the framework of the sketch and the characters’ intimate and friendly relationships, these instances of mock impoliteness are found to serve as comedic devices aimed at creating humour to elicit laughter. This study contributes to the understanding of humour production and the role of mock impoliteness in comedy within the context of Chinese televised entertainment.

KEYWORDS

Mock impoliteness, humour, CCTV Spring Festival Gala, sketch comedy

CITE THIS PAPER

Jing Huang, Mock Impoliteness in a Classic CCTV Spring Festival Gala Sketch. Lecture Notes on Language and Literature (2024) Vol. 7: 110-114. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/langl.2024.070219.

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