Rear gunners and troubled privates
Wordplay in a dick joke competition1
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3607297 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M Lloyd (0000-0002-3193-7547, Victoria University of Wellington, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 5-23 |
| Publication date | 2007-02-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Sociolinguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1360-6441 • E-ISSN: 1467-9841 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-9841.2007.00308.x |
| OpenAlex | W2146661173 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 17 |
A humorous competition called 'The Adventures of Naked Man' ran in a Wellington (New Zealand) newspaper from 1999 to 2000. The competition's protagonist is the sole naked person in a drawn setting where, because of some convenient object or body position, his penis is obscured from sight. Entrants to the competition submitted a caption to go with the drawn setting, the point being to make humour. Without explicit instruction, most entrants constructed some form of dick joke, the interesting questions being, just how, and with what variations? These questions are pursued by drawing on the full corpus of Naked Man settings and captions. Basic principles of conversation analysis, including some early work of Sacks on punning, are used to analyse the nature and popularity of the Naked Man competition. The article also offers some more speculative comments to do with gender and the organisation of language about sexuality
Adventure · Art · Art history · Competition (biology · Joke · Linguistics · Literature · Object (grammar · Popularity · Sociology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Humor Studies and Applications · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
Laughter and Ridicule
Language and Creativity
Handbook of Discourse Analysis
Studies in Social Interaction
Dick‐tionaries
The omnipotence of the actor
Boundary Play
Doing Feminist Conversation Analysis
Hostility and Aggression toward Males in Female Joke Telling
Naming of Parts
Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious 1905
No
Gender and humor
Rationale of the Dirty Joke
Hegemonic Masculinity
| Citations per year | 0.18 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2009 - 2011 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |