Humour performers and their performances in Van culture

ABSTRACT Humor represents the cultural memory of a society. Societies re-functionalise their cultural accumulation with humour. In history, humour has often pioneered the correction and regulation of society. People have been able to criticise those whom they could not criticise directly through humour. With this aspect of humour, they were able to do this by taking advantage of the protective aspect of execution. The more important humour is for a society, the more important the people who perform humour are. Therefore, this study focuses on humour and the people who perform humour. Every culture has important humour performers. The performances of humour performers, who are positioned in an important identity and status in society, are often improvised. Humour performers, who can be seen in many professions, are the people that Turkish people want to chat with in order to relax mentally and have fun. This study titled Humour Performers and Their Performances in Van Culture deals with the performances of humour performers in Van Center and Districts in many ways. At first, by focusing on the place of humour performances in humour theories, it evaluates humour performances in terms of many functions of the basic humour theories of superiority, incompatibility and relaxation theories. In addition, the importance and roles of the participants in humour performance environments are also examined. The importance of a letter or suffix in humour is sometimes seen in the functional analysis of the performances. In this respect, the performances were subjected to the text analysis technique and local cultural encodings were made possible to understand. Keywords: Humour, Humour Performer, Performance Theory, Context, Discourse Analysis.