JOURNAL LINGUISTICS

David Boromisza-Habashi

Voice and moral accountability: burlesque narratives in televised Hungarian political discourse

In this paper talking about studies of burlesque in spoken discourse through the examination of situated interaction in a televised Hungarian political talk show . The study includes the analysis of a segment of interaction characterized as a bounded episode of interactional managed burlesque narrative. The burlesque narrative emerges as a speech genre that speakers employ in the specific situational context of the political talk show and the discursive context of perceived political provocation. It means, this is talking about a public issue absurd, to mitigate their own accountability, to create opportunities for participant affiliation by means of humor. And this paper analysis about the extended context of Hungarian political discourse the burlesque narrative functions as a counter discourse.

 In this part, the writer wan to give three explanation, there are three kind of explanation of that:

1.      Introduce and discuss Kenneth Burke’s, definition of burlesque as a literary and rhetorical genre.

2.      Discuss issues of voicing using Silverstein’s, formulation of cultural concepts and the analytic framework of participation roles (Goffman 1981; Urban 1989; Irvine 1996).

3.      Analyze a bounded segment of situated interaction as narrative based on Labov’s, structural analytic framework.

As we know, Press Club as speech event features five types of participant roles. so, in this part the writer want to  present the way how to give a good the press club in media. That because the press club have some function. such as, to occasionally introduce new topics or to cue another pundit to introduce a new topic, to occasionally influence turn taking in order to ensure the equal distribution of turns.

Besides that, the writer explain the pundit itself, the pundits are well known media personalities who are routinely cast as the representatives of Hungarian far right activism.  The group of pundits that co host the show varies, but some members give fairly regular appearances. the pundits introduces a problematic topic from the domain of current events, he or she proffers some initial analytic and  evaluative commentary, other participants proffer comments, the topic is concluded, and a new topic is introduced.

Conclusion

In this conclusion, we can conclude the objective of the speaker protagonist of the narrative and the fellow pundits who participate in its construction is to lampoon the adversary and render its position ludicrous. The lampooning is done in a way that does not carefully consider the minutiae of the adversary’s position, but instead presents that position as completely worthless and laughable, criticizing the position in a way that maintains plausible deniability for the participants of the burlesque performance.

Comment

            Actually it is a good paper because this paper tells about the studies of burlesque in spoken discourse through the examination of situated interaction in a televised Hungarian political talk show but on the other hand this paper does not focus to the title of this article. The title of this article is Voice and moral accountability: burlesque narratives in televised Hungarian political discourse but in the explanation of this article the writer only focus to the interaction in Hungarian political talk show and do not gives more explanation and what kind of voice and moral accountability in Hungarian political talk show.