Question: How does the panda joke uses Intertexuality and other tools to create the humorous punchline?
Answer: for this joke, one might say it is simple but also complex when you include the analyzation methods for the joke. To the regular wavering eye, the joke is just a play off of words which one may see, but to an analytical person it is a great masterpiece. The panda joke uses all of the tools we have learned in class from Gee's explanation. The two main points that I have seen were intertexuality, and social languages.
The way intertextuality is used is by using a common line and switching it up with different wordings similar to the the subject of the panda. Giving that the common knowledge known about pandas is that it spends its days chewing on bamboo chutes. What the joke implies is that a panda walks into a restaurant and shot up the place and when the matree'd was asked about what happened he replies he "Chutes and leaves". The wordplay by replacing 'shoots' and 'chutes' (the bamboo) and 'leaves' and 'leaves' (as an expression to exit an area) and common knowledge of a panda creates the punchline and gives it a humorous affect towards the audience.
Social language is also used. To explain it is just like the previous explanation above. The language we have grown up with and was taught teaches us to differentiate between words that sound the same but have totally different definitions. With this being said, the way joke works really well to hit hard with the punchline is by taking the rules of differentiating words and discarding them. Given the common knowledge majority was taught about pandas (yet again explained in the summary of intertextuality) and taking away the rules our social language has been set in place, the punchline makes more sense through analyzation.
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