Verbal Humor of Woody Allen Drama: Discourse Analysis Approach

In the current paper, after reviewing verbal humor, I have put forth this concept through the lens of semantics and pragmatics. Having set a theoretical foundation, I have analyzed “Don’t Drink the Water” and “Riverside Drive”, two of Allen’s plays, and I have tried to show verbal humor patterns and mechanisms in his works. Allen, creatively and seamlessly, has woven his visual imagination into a poetics stemmed from both reality and unknown concepts, depicts insecurity and makes use of it.