Mini-Lesson on Pragmatics: It Doesn’t Sound Hilarious, But It Is Important to Comedy (2024)

Professor Chad Greene introduces the students in his linguistics class at Cerritos College to pragmatics -- and its importance to comedy. After citing the recent examples of the TV sitcom THE BIG BANG THEORY and the movie comedy SORRY TO BOTHER YOU, Greene invites his students to share their own examples of how pragmatics helps to create a comedic scene in a contemporary piece of popular culture.