Examining the rhetorical strategies employed in the humorous discourse of Chinese talk shows

Researchers have pointed out that rhetorical strategies a significant impact on producing humour in Chinese talk shows, while few of them investigated the factors affect choice humorous discourse context. This study aims to identify used and investigate chosen by hosts or comedians produce humour. Thus, current selected 24 monologue samples from popular programme called Rock & Roast conducted analysis them. Kenneth Burke’s theory is adopted uncover influence shows. The findings reveal realisation shows rich, including devices, foreign language (English), internet buzzwords, among other things. main influencing are ‘ratio’ ‘agent agency,' which show language. contributes helping audience gain better understanding provides new perspective for analysis.