The collective and Individual Reactions to Sarcasm in Lessening Offence in the English Culture THE CASE OF JOJO MOYES’S ME BEFORE YOU NOVEL AND MOVIE
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2020
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UNIVERSITY OF ABBES LAGHROUR-KHENCHELA
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This research presents an investigation about the individual and collective reactions to the use of sarcasm in lessening the offensiveness of an utterance in the English culture. The research aims to raise awareness of media elements that have a direct relation with the culture and elements that spread wrong stereotypical images of it. The novel ‘Me Before You’ is analysed using reader-response theory to highlight the individual reactions of the readers and the movie adaptation of the same novel following Barthes semiotic theory to show the collective reactions. Both reactions are related to the English culture. Finally, the analysis of both the movie and novel are compared to show the difference between the two reactions and justify them.