The Pragmatics of Humour in Interactive Contexts / edited by Esther Linares-Bernabéu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Linares Bernabéu, Esther.

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 335.

Pragmatics and Beyond New Series ; v.335

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wit and humor--History and criticism.

Wit and humor.

Pragmatics.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (247 pages) : color illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2023]

Summary:

The Pragmatics of Humour in Interactive Contexts gathers some of the most recent work on humour in interaction, with contributions taking (meta)pragmatic approaches to the analysis of various genres of interactive humour in both online and offline settings.

Contents:

Intro

Introduction

Esther Linares BernabéuUniversitat de València - IULMA

Part I Interactional humour on digital settings

Interpreting Covid-related memes

Francisco Yus & Carmen Maíz-ArévaloUniversity of Alicante | Complutense University, Madrid

1. Introduction

2. The incongruity-resolution humorous strategy (IR)

3. Incongruity-resolution in general-topic memes

3.1 Frame-based incongruity where the image plays no role in the IR strategy

3.2 Frame-based incongruity where the image aids in the IR strategy

3.3 Frame-based incongruity where the image is essential in the IR strategy

3.4 Discourse-image based incongruity (the image is essential)

3.5 Discourse-based incongruity where the image plays no role in the IR strategy

3.6 Discourse-based incongruity where the image aids in the IR strategy

3.7 Discourse-based incongruity where the image is essential in the IR strategy

4. IR in Covid memes: Methodology of analysis

5. IR in Covid memes: Categories

5.1 Frame-based incongruity where the image plays no role in the IR strategy

5.2 Frame-based incongruity where the image is essential in the IR strategy

5.3 Discourse-image based incongruity (the image is essential)

5.4 Discourse-based incongruity where the image plays no role in the IR strategy

6. Just like any other humorous meme?

7. Concluding remarks

Funding

Political-electoral memes and interactional humour on Twitter

Ana Pano Alamán & Ana Mancera RuedaUniversity of Bologna | University of Seville

2. Theoretical framework

2.1 Memes

2.2 Political humor

3. Description of corpus and methodological considerations

4. Results and discussion

4.1 Qualitative analysis

5. Conclusions

From mode adoption to saluting a dead kitten

Luca Bischetti & Salvatore AttardoUniversity School for Advanced Studies IUSS - Pavia | Texas A&M University-Commerce

2. Methodology

2.1 Description of Ricky Gervais' tweet

2.2 Data collection and corpus creation section

2.3 Replies categorization

2.4 Corpus creation

2.5 Data analysis

3. Results

3.1 Corpus analysis and classification of tweets

3.2 Analysis of individual tweets

3.2.1 GTVH analysis of a plaudit

3.2.2 A case of seemingly failed intention recognition

3.2.3 The case of "aware" mode adoption

4. Discussion

5. Limitations of the study

6. Conclusion

"The girl is on fire!"

Jan Chovanec & Villy TsakonaMasaryk University, Brno | National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

2. Setting the field: Interactional humour, disasters, and religion

2.1 Interactional humour

2.2 Disaster humour

2.3 Religious humour

3. Material

3.1 YouTube commenting and humour

3.2 The data of the study

4. Data analysis

4.1 Disaster humour joking thread

Notes:

Title from online (viewed on July 24, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Linares Bernabéu, Esther The Pragmatics of Humour in Interactive Contexts

ISBN:

9789027249753

902724975X

OCLC:

1378937980

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.