Irony and humor : from pragmatics to discourse / edited by Leonor Ruiz-Gurillo, M. Belén Alvarado-Ortega.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ruiz, Leonor.

Alvarado Ortega, M. Belén.

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; v. 231.

Pragmatics & beyond new series, 0922-842X ; v. 231

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Irony.

Wit and humor.

Pragmatics.

Semantics.

Physical Description:

vi, 270 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This contribution focuses on three major aspects of the recently developed Corpus Interactional Humor (Corinth). First, it describes the socio-cognitive account of meaning, against the background of which the corpus is designed. Language use is basically a dynamic intersubjective process, in which interlocutors coordinate both their production and interpretation. An adequate analysis of (humorous) meaning therefore heavily depends on the notion of perspectivization, from which we gain the insight that the meaning of many humorous utterances is realized on different layers. Second, we describe the educational context, in which the corpus is embedded and finally, third, the main section of this article elaborates on the internal corpus design, focusing on the multiple parameters and values that constitute the annotation grid of the corpus.

Contents:

pt. 1. Irony and humor : pragmatic perspectives

pt. 2. Irony and humor in mediated discourse

pt. 3. Irony and humor in conversational interaction.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789027271594

9027271593

OCLC:

853238369