Overview

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.

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Author:   Marta Dynel (University of Lodz)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   210
Weight:   0.865kg
ISBN:  

9789027256140

ISBN 10:   9027256144
Pages:   382
Publication Date:   13 July 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Pragmatics and linguistic research into humour (by Dynel, Marta); 2. Part 1. Stylistic figures as forms of humour; 3. 1.1: Irony; 4. Will anticipating irony facilitate it immediately? (by Giora, Rachel); 5. That's not ironic, that's just stupid : Towards an eclectic account of the discourse of irony (by Simpson, Paul); 6. Irony via surrealism (by Kapogianni, Eleni); 7. 1.2 Puns and other wordplay; 8. The role of syllables and morphemes as mechanisms in humorous pun formation (by Seewoester Cain, Sarah); 9. Context-sensitive aspects of Shakespeare's use of puns in comedies: An enquiry into clowns' and pages' punning practices (by Adamczyk, Magdalena); 10. Dimensions of incongruity in register humour (by Venour, Chris); 11. Part 2. (Non)interactive forms of humour; 12. 2.1: Jokes; 13. Displays of new gender arrangements in Russian jokes (by Thielemann, Nadine); 14. Understanding ethnic humour in Romanian jokes (by Popescu, Carmen); 15. Sexuality in Anglo-American anti-proverbs (by Litovkina, Anna T.); 16. 2.2 Conversational humour; 17. Joker in the pack: Towards determining the status of humorous framing in conversations (by Dynel, Marta); 18. Humour in quasi-conversations: Constructing fun in online sports journalism (by Chovanec, Jan); 19. Humour and the integration of new staff in the workplace: An interactional study (by Pullin, Patricia); 20. Part 3. Forms of humour in public discourse; 21. Parody in the light of the incongruity-resolution model: The case of political sketches by Monty Pythons's Flying Circus (by Kaczorowski, Maciej); 22. I'll be there for you! On participation-based sitcom humour (by Dynel, Marta); 23. Losers, poltroons and nudniks in Woody Allen's Mere Anarchy: A linguistic approach to comic failure (by Ermida, Isabel); 24. Notes on humour and persuasion in advertising and legal discourse (by Forabosco, Giovannantonio); 25. Comic takeover or comic makeover?: Notes on humour-translating, translation and (un)translatability (by Chiaro, Delia); 26. Name index; 27. Subject index

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