Exploring the Sociopragmatics of Online Humor
Title | Exploring the Sociopragmatics of Online Humor PDF eBook |
Author | Villy Tsakona |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Pages | 278 |
Release | 2024-07-15 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027246793 |
This monograph explores the diverse sociopragmatic functions and meanings of humorous discourse in various online contexts affecting its use. To this end, an analytical model is proposed which takes into consideration the aspects of context which are relevant to the production and reception of humor, and hence to its sociopragmatic analysis. The model is employed for addressing research questions such as the following: Why may an utterance/text be intended and perceived as humorous by some speakers and fail for others? How and why may speakers attempt to regulate language use through humor? Why and how may the same humorous utterance/text engender diverse and contradictory interpretations? How do speakers create social groups and project social identities through humor? How could the sociopragmatic analysis of humor form the basis for teaching about humor within a critical literacy framework?
Exploring the Ambivalence of Liquid Racism
Title | Exploring the Ambivalence of Liquid Racism PDF eBook |
Author | Argiris Archakis |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2024-02-15 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027247234 |
The ongoing migration ‘crisis’ in European countries (2015 to date) has fostered different stances and practices within European nation-states, ranging from xenophobia to solidarity. In this context, two contradictory discourses seem to coexist: the national racist discourse and the humanitarian, antiracist one. This volume brings together studies investigating diverse semiotic strategies through which liquid racism emerges, which consists of ambiguities and contradictory interpretations due to the fact that racist views infiltrate discourse intended as antiracist. The volume includes critical and pragmatic analyses of texts coming from various sources, such as news articles, parliamentary discourse, political cartoons, video clips, advertising campaigns based on personal stories, and jokes. It is an outcome of the research project “TRACE: Tracing Racism in Anti-raCist discoursE: A critical approach to European public speech on the migrant and refugee crisis” (HFRI-FM17-42, HFRI 2019-2022, Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation).
The Palgrave Handbook of Humour Research
Title | The Palgrave Handbook of Humour Research PDF eBook |
Author | Elisabeth Vanderheiden |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 675 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 3031522885 |
Metapragmatics of Humor
Title | Metapragmatics of Humor PDF eBook |
Author | Leonor Ruiz-Gurillo |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Pages | 309 |
Release | 2016-11-24 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027266379 |
Metapragmatics of Humor: Current research trends contributes to a new area in the pragmatics of humor: its conception as a metapragmatic ability. The book collects thirteen chapters organized into three parts: Revisions and applications of General Theory of Verbal Humor (GTVH) in a metapragmatic context; Metapragmatic awareness of humor across textual modes; and Metapragmatic practices within the acquisition of humor. Thus, this book provides an up-to-date panorama of this field, where metapragmatic abilities are described in adults as well as in children, on humorous and non-humorous genres — jokes, cartoons, humorous monologues, parodies, conversation, Twitter —, and using several approaches, such as GTVH, multimodality, conversational analysis, eye-tracking methodology, etc.
Humor in Interaction
Title | Humor in Interaction PDF eBook |
Author | Neal R. Norrick |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 261 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027254273 |
The occasioning of self-disclosure humor / Susan M. Ervin-Tripp & Martin Lampert -- Direct address as a resource for humor / Neal R. Norrick & Claudia Bubel -- An interactional approach to irony development / Helga Kotthoff -- Multimodal and intertextual humor in the media reception situation : the case of watching football on TV / Cornelia Gerhardt -- Using humor to do masculinity at work / Stephanie Schnurr & Janet Holmes -- Boundary-marking humor : institutional, gender, and ethnic demarcation in the workplace / Bernadette Vine ... [et al.] Impolite responses to failed humor / Nancy D. Bell -- Failed humor in conversation : a double voicing analysis / Béatrice Priego-Valverde
Pragmatics of Internet Humour
Title | Pragmatics of Internet Humour PDF eBook |
Author | Francisco Yus |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 357 |
Release | 2023-06-07 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 3031319028 |
This book provides a first thorough analysis of internet humour from a cognitive-pragmatic perspective, covering a wide range of discourses that are pervasive online and focusing especially on messaging interactions, social networking sites and memes. Its chapters describe the inferential strategies implemented to turn online coded discourses into meaningful interpretations, which in turn can be devised and manipulated for the sake of humour. Furthermore, and apart from the typical object of pragmatic research (humorous discourses), the book emphasises the importance of the interfaces’ design and of the qualities of the users engaged in humorous interactions (called contextual constraints), additionally highlighting the parallel significance of the various effects, shaped as feelings and emotions, that stem from humorous communication on the internet. In sum, the book delivers a rich and detailed account of humorous internet discourses through dissecting their affordances as a medium, tracking the users’ intentions, and predicting the audiences’ interpretive strategies, with the goal of helping the reader obtain a better understanding of internet humour and its role in today’s online interactions.
The Pragmatics of Humour Across Discourse Domains
Title | The Pragmatics of Humour Across Discourse Domains PDF eBook |
Author | Marta Dynel |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 389 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027256144 |
Brings together a range of contributions on the linguistics of humour. This title elucidates the whole gamut of humorous forms and mechanisms, such as surrealist irony, incongruity in register humour, mechanisms of pun formation, as well as interpersonal functions of conversational humour