Humor in interaction / edited by Neal R. Norrick, Delia Chiaro.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Norrick, Neal R.

Chiaro, Delia, 1953-

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 182.

Pragmatics & beyond, 0922-842X ; new ser., v. 182

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Joking.

Plays on words.

Conversation analysis.

Pragmatics.

Physical Description:

xvii, 238 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., [2009]

Summary:

This is the first edited volume dedicated specifically to humor in interaction. It is a rich collection of essays by an international array of scholars representing various theoretical perspectives, but all concerned with interactional aspects of humor. The contributors are scholars active both in the interdisciplinary area of humor studies and in adjacent disciplines such as linguistic pragmatics, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, psycholinguistics, gender and translation studies. The volume effectively offers an overview of the range of phenomena falling in the broad category of 'conversational humor', and convincingly argues for the many different functions humor can fulfill, bypassing simplistic humor theories reducing humor to one function. All the articles draw on empirical material from different countries and cultures, comprising conversations among friends and family, talk in workplace situations, humor in educational settings, and experimental approaches to humor in interaction. The book is sure to become an important reference and source of inspiration for scholars in the various subfields of humor studies, pragmatics and (socio-)linguistics.

Contents:

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

Humor and interlanguage in a bilingual elementary school setting / Kristin Kersten

Cultural divide or unifying factor? Humorous talk in the interaction of bilingual, cross-cultural couples / Delia Chiaro.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9789027254276

9027254273

9789027289339

9027289336

OCLC:

319157209