Metapragmatics of Humor
Current research trends
Editor
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 context; Metapragmatic awareness of humor across textual modes; and Metapragmatic practices within the acquisition of humor. Thus, this book provides an up-to-date panorama of this field, where metapragmatic abilities are described in adults as well as in children, on humorous and non-humorous genres — jokes, cartoons, humorous monologues, parodies, conversation, Twitter —, and using several approaches, such as GTVH, multimodality, conversational analysis, eye-tracking methodology, etc.
[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 14] 2016. vi, 301 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Introduction. Exploring metapragmatics of humorLeonor Ruiz-Gurillo | pp. 1–8
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Part 1.. Revisions and applications of General Theory of Verbal Humor (GTVH) in a metapragmatic context
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The variables of the evaluative functional relationship: The case of humorous discourseLaura Alba Juez | pp. 11–34
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Humor and advertising in Twitter: An approach from the General Theory of Verbal Humor and MetapragmaticsAna Pano Alamán and Ana Mancera Rueda | pp. 35–56
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Beyond verbal incongruity: A genre-specific model for the interpretation of humor in political cartoonsMarta Agüero Guerra | pp. 57–77
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Metapragmatics of humor: Variability, negotiability and adaptability in humorous monologuesLeonor Ruiz-Gurillo | pp. 79–101
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Part 2.. Metapragmatic awareness of humor across textual modes
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2.1. Jokes
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Lawyers, great lawyers, and liars: The metapragmatics of lying in lawyer jokesMiguel Ángel Campos | pp. 107–125
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A look at metalinguistic jokes based on intentional morphological reanalysisIsabel Balteiro | pp. 127–143
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2.2. TV genres
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How do French humorists adapt across situations? A corpus study of their prosodic and (dis)fluency profilesIulia Grosman | pp. 147–175
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Truthiness and consequences: A cognitive pragmatic analysis of Stephen Colbert’s satirical strategies and effectsCraig O. Stewart | pp. 177–189
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2.3. Conversation
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Variability, adaptability and negotiability in conversational humor: A matter of genderM. Belén Alvarado-Ortega | pp. 193–214
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Teasing in casual conversations: An opportunistic discursive strategyBéatrice Priego-Valverde | pp. 215–233
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Smiling, gaze, and humor in conversation: A pilot studyElisa Gironzetti, Salvatore Attardo and Lucy Pickering | pp. 235–254
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Part 3.. Metapragmatic practices within the acquisition of humor
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Understanding of humorous intentions: A developmental approachElena Hoicka | pp. 257–272
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Children using phraseology for humorous purposes: The case of 9-to-10-year-oldsLarissa Timofeeva-Timofeev | pp. 273–298
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Subject index
“The pragmatics of humor is a highly attractive area of research in present-day
linguistics. One of theoretically significant aspects of this field is the conception of humor as a metapragmatic ability, i.e. a reflexive activity of speakers. This book brings together several approaches to the metapragmatics of humor. The monograph is highly innovative and produces new findings for both the theory of pragmatics and the description of some individual areas of the humorous use of language.”
linguistics. One of theoretically significant aspects of this field is the conception of humor as a metapragmatic ability, i.e. a reflexive activity of speakers. This book brings together several approaches to the metapragmatics of humor. The monograph is highly innovative and produces new findings for both the theory of pragmatics and the description of some individual areas of the humorous use of language.”
Dmitrij Dobrovol'skij, Russian Academy of Sciences
“A fresh and novel approach to humor in the context of pragmatic analysis from an array of theoretical, linguistic, discursive and multimodal perspectives.”
Javier Muñoz-Basols, University of Oxford
“This volume aims to go more deeply into the comprehensive analysis of humorous texts and interactions, taking the notion of metapragmatic awareness as point of departure. This methodological choice promotes a series of decidedly innovative approaches to a crucial dimension of humor: reflexivity, understood as a series of monitoring processes that underlie humorous usages and usually have formal manifestations in discourse. The volume thus constitutes a relevant contribution to the field, insofar as it contains innovative approaches to a good number of empirical data, as well as deep methodological reflections on the interplay between Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis in Humor Studies.”
Inés Olza, University of Navarra
“The volume under review is a most welcome addition to the relevant research. Not only does it acknowledge the significance of respective research topics, but it also enriches the literature and expands its scope by exploring topics such as speakers’ metapragmatic awareness/competence [...]. The volume is recommended not only to those interested in the metapragmatics (and the pragmatics) of humorous discourse but also to those interested in the metapragmatics of language in general.”
Villy Tsakona, Democritus University of Thrace, on Linguist List 23.3259 (01/08/2017)
“Overall, the book effectively demonstrates the role of metapragmatic awareness in creating and processing humour. The mix of pragmatic and cognitive methods of analysis is perhaps one of its strongest features: it offers a new perspective for future humour research by enriching existing theories of humour (e.g. the GTVH) with new components, thus making them more applicable to the analysis of specific humorous genres.”
Ksenia M. Shilikhina, Voronezh State University, Russia, in European Journal of Humour Research 5.4 (2017)
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009030: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Pragmatics