SubjectsLinguistics / Humor studies
Book series
ISSN 2212-8999
Formulaic Humor and Humorous Formulae in Fictional Telecinematic Dialogue
Monika Kirner-Ludwig
This monograph presents the first book-length study to focus on formulaic humor and humorous formulae , situated at the crossroads of Pragmatics, Phraseology, and Conversational Humor Studies. Based upon a self-compiled corpus of 34 television series (4,214 episodes; 19.4 million words), it adopts… read more[Topics in Humor Research, 13] 2026. xxxi, 313 pp. + index
Exploring the Sociopragmatics of Online Humor
Villy Tsakona
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… read more[Topics in Humor Research, 12] 2024. xi, 264 pp.
The Pragmatics of Humour in Interactive Contexts
Edited by Esther Linares Bernabéu
Recent years have seen a burgeoning interest in interactional humour from social and pragmatic perspectives, with fascinating results. Released more than a decade later than Norrick and Chiaro (2009) Humor in Interaction, The Pragmatics of Humour in Interactive Contexts gathers some of the most… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 335] 2023. vi, 239 pp.
Humour in Self-Translation
Edited by Margherita Dore
This book explores an important aspect of human existence: humor in self-translation, a virtually unexplored area of research in Humour Studies and Translation Studies. Of the select group of international scholars contributing to this volume some examine literary texts from different perspectives… read more[Topics in Humor Research, 11] 2022. xi, 278 pp.
Humour in the Beginning: Religion, humour and laughter in formative stages of Christianity, Islam, Buddhism and Judaism
Edited by Roald Dijkstra and Paul van der Velde
Humour in the Beginning presents a multidisciplinary collection of fourteen in-depth case-studies on the role of humour – both benign and blasphemous, elitist and ordinary, orthodox and heterodox – in early, formative stages of Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism and (late-antique) Judaism. Its… read more[Topics in Humor Research, 10] 2022. xii, 306 pp.
The Multimodal Performance of Conversational Humor
Elisa Gironzetti
This volume is the first monograph exploring the functions of visual cues in humor, advocating for the development of a non-linguocentric theory of humor performance. It analyzes a corpus of dyadic, face-to-face interactions in Spanish and English to study the relationship between humor, smiling,… read more[Figurative Thought and Language, 13] 2022. xix, 235 pp.
Playing with Mental Models: Humour in the BBC comedy series The Office
Henri de Jongste
In this book, the author uses a mental-model theory of communication to investigate the acclaimed British situation comedy The Office. The approach taken is multi-disciplinary, and focuses on questions as:What are mental models and what role do they play in communication in general, and in creating… read more[Topics in Humor Research, 9] 2020. xv, 301 pp.
Understanding Conversational Joking: A cognitive-pragmatic study based on Russian interactions
Nadine Thielemann
This book examines the diverse forms of conversational humor with the help of examples drawn from casual interactions among Russian speakers. It argues that neither an exclusively discourse-analytic perspective on the phenomenon nor an exclusively cognitive one can adequately account for… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 310] 2020. x, 287 pp.
Conversational Humour and (Im)politeness: A pragmatic analysis of social interaction
Valeria Sinkeviciute
Conversational Humour and (Im)politeness is the first systematic study that offers a socio-pragmatic perspective on humorous practices such as teasing, mockery and taking the piss and their relation to (im)politeness. Analysing data from corpora, reality television and interviews in Australian and… read more[Topics in Humor Research, 8] 2019. xi, 274 pp.
The Dynamics of Interactional Humor: Creating and negotiating humor in everyday encounters
Edited by Villy Tsakona and Jan Chovanec
This book deals with the construction of diverse forms of humor in everyday oral, written, and mediatized interactions. It sheds light on the differences and, most importantly, the similarities in the production of interactional humor in face-to-face and various technology-mediated forms of… read more[Topics in Humor Research, 7] 2018. vi, 316 pp.
Iranian Political Satirists: Experience and motivation in the contemporary era
Mahmud Farjami
This volume surveys political satire as a journalistic genre in Iran since the latter days of the Qajar dynasty to the present, thus spanning one century and more. It is an important resource, but it also provides an analysis. Moreover, this volume is a rare effort to answer a question that looks… read more[Topics in Humor Research, 5] 2017. x, 213 pp.
Irony in Language Use and Communication
Edited by Angeliki Athanasiadou and Herbert L. Colston
The volume provides original research and analyses of the multi-faceted conceptual and verbal process(es) of irony. Key topics explored include interdisciplinary perspectives and approaches to the study of irony. Collectively, the papers examine irony from psychology, embodiment studies,… read more[Figurative Thought and Language, 1] 2017. x, 282 pp.
Satire, Humor and the Construction of Identities
Massih Zekavat
Satire, Humor and the Construction of Identities conveys how satire can contribute to the construction of social subjects’ identities. It attempts to provide a theoretical ground for a novel understanding of the relationship between satire and identity by finding their common denominator, namely… read more[Topics in Humor Research, 6] 2017. vii, 210 pp.
Humour and Relevance
Francisco Yus
This book offers a cognitive-pragmatic, and specifically relevance-theoretic, analysis of different types of humorous discourse, together with the inferential strategies that are at work in the processing of such discourses. The book also provides a cognitive pragmatics description of how… read more[Topics in Humor Research, 4] 2016. xix, 367 pp.
Metapragmatics of Humor: Current research trends
Edited by Leonor Ruiz-Gurillo
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… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 14] 2016. vi, 301 pp.
Made-in-Canada Humour: Literary, folk and popular culture
Beverly J. Rasporich
Made-in-Canada-Humour is an interdisciplinary survey and analysis of Canadian humour and humorists in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The book focuses on a variety of genres. It includes celebrated Canadian writers and poets with ironic and satiric perspectives; oral storytellers of tall… read more[Topics in Humor Research, 3] 2015. xxi, 300 pp.
The Power of Satire
Edited by Marijke Meijer Drees and Sonja de Leeuw
Satire is clearly one of today’s most controversial socio-cultural topics. In this edited volume, The Power of Satire, it is studied for the first time as a dynamic, discursive mode of performance with the power of crossing and contesting cultural boundaries. The collected essays reflect the… read more[Topics in Humor Research, 2] 2015. xiii, 277 pp.
Developments in Linguistic Humour Theory
Edited by Marta Dynel
This volume presents recent developments in the linguistics of humour. It depicts new theoretical proposals for capturing different humorous forms and phenomena central to humour research, thereby extending its scope. The 15 contributions critically survey and develop the existing interpretative… read more[Topics in Humor Research, 1] 2013. xiv, 425 pp.
Irony and Humor: From pragmatics to discourse
Edited by Leonor Ruiz-Gurillo and M. Belén Alvarado Ortega
Irony and Humor: From pragmatics to discourse is a complete updated panorama of linguistic research on irony and humor, based on a variety of perspectives, corpora and theories. The book collects the most recent contributions from such diverse approaches as Relevance Theory, Cognitive Linguistics,… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 231] 2013. vi, 270 pp.
Prosody and Humor
Edited by Salvatore Attardo, Manuela Maria Wagner and Eduardo Urios-Aparisi
This is the first-ever book-length collection of articles on the subject of prosody and humor. The chapters are written by the recognized leaders in the field and present the cutting edge of the research in this new interdisciplinary field of study. The book covers a broad range of languages, using… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 55] 2013. v, 192 pp.