Literary Arts (Mar 2010)
The Characteristics of Satire and Humorous Language in Caricalamatures (based on Parviz-e Shapoor\'s works)
Abstract
Abstract Satirists, usually use literary language fused with lingual innovation, intricacy and elegance, so that the effect of satire will be doubled thus, the more defamiliarized a satire is, the stronger is its effect on the audience. Here, it seems that some characteristics such as brevity and condensation of sentences, plainness of expression, diction, colloquial expressions , hyperbolic expressions, word-plays and some devices and techniques like estrangement and defamiliarization, surprise, hysteron proteron (chiasmus) and paradox, or reconciliation of the opposites, along with other underlying eloquence are effective in formation of caricalamatures, satire, irony and humorous language using common traditional figurative speech methods—methods which result from search in the unlimited and hidden potentialities of language. In this research, the investigation of caricalamatures, satire and humorous language has been performed based on a descriptive-analytical approach which not only leads to the acquaintance with some idiosyncratic features of this genre, but also makes the appreciation of such works possible. These characteristics are seen in other caricalamaturists' language with little difference. But, besides his being an avant-garde, what marks Shapoor's satiric language as outstanding among other caricalamaturists is the tremendous influence he has left on the authors of his next generation .
