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833017033 03 01 01 JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 JB code IVITRA 14 Eb 15 9789027266378 06 10.1075/ivitra.14 13 2016049584 DG 002 02 01 IVITRA 02 2211-5412 IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature 14 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Metapragmatics of Humor</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Current research trends</Subtitle> 01 ivitra.14 01 https://benjamins.com 02 https://benjamins.com/catalog/ivitra.14 1 B01 Leonor Ruiz-Gurillo Ruiz-Gurillo, Leonor Leonor Ruiz-Gurillo University of Alicante 01 eng 307 vi 301 LAN009030 v.2006 CFG 2 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.DISC Discourse studies 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.HUMOR Humor studies 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.PRAG Pragmatics 06 01 <i>Metapragmatics of Humor: Current research trends</i> 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. 05 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 05 The pragmatics of humor is a highly attractive area of research in present-day<br />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 05 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) 05 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 05 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) 04 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475/ivitra.14.png 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_jpg/9789027240200.jpg 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_tif/9789027240200.tif 06 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_front/ivitra.14.hb.png 07 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/125/ivitra.14.png 25 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_back/ivitra.14.hb.png 27 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/3d_web/ivitra.14.hb.png 10 01 JB code ivitra.14.01int 1 8 8 Article 1 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Exploring metapragmatics of humor</TitleText> 1 A01 Leonor Ruiz-Gurillo Ruiz-Gurillo, Leonor Leonor Ruiz-Gurillo University of Alicante, GRIALE Research Group 10 01 JB code ivitra.14.p1 Section header 2 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Part 1. Revisions and applications of <i>General Theory of Verbal Humor</i> (GTVH) in a metapragmatic context</TitleText> 10 01 JB code ivitra.14.02jue 11 34 24 Article 3 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">The variables of the evaluative functional relationship</TitleText> <TitlePrefix>The </TitlePrefix> <TitleWithoutPrefix textformat="02">variables of the evaluative functional relationship</TitleWithoutPrefix> <Subtitle textformat="02">The case of humorous discourse</Subtitle> 1 A01 Laura Alba-Juez Alba-Juez, Laura Laura Alba-Juez UNED 20 evaluative function 20 functional relationship 20 humorous discourse 20 knowledge resources/variables of the evaluation function ‘F' 20 stance 01 In this paper I focus on the evaluative content of humor, an aspect which &#8211; to date and to my knowledge &#8211; has been dealt with only in a peripheral manner by research both on humor and on evaluation. Linguistic evaluation is viewed herein as a dynamical subsystem of language (as discussed in Alba-Juez &#38; Alba-Juez 2012), and it is argued that it should be studied and analyzed as an important element in any theory of humor performance. A corpus of 100 psychology jokes in English and Spanish found on jokes websites was used as data, whose evaluative content was examined taking into account the findings of previous research on stance and evaluative language (e.g. Hunston &#38; Thompson 2000; Martin &#38; White 2005; Englebretson 2007; Bednarek 2006, 2008a, 2008b, 2009a &#38; b; Thompson &#38; Alba-Juez 2014) and the evaluative function of irony (e.g. Partington 2007, 2011; Alba-Juez &#38; Attardo 2014). <br />Evaluation is treated herein as a pragmatic and cognitive phenomenon which is a function of a number of variables that interact with one another. Thus, a methodology and procedure to analyze the stance taken by the jokester (and transmitted through the jokes) is proposed, by means of which the evaluative content of the jokes is scrutinized in order to assign the corresponding qualitative values to each one of these interacting variables. This methodology is applied not only to the analysis of jokes in isolation, but also to the comparison of the evaluative equations of different jokes, or of similar jokes in different languages (English and Spanish, in this particular case). Likewise, it is suggested that this procedure can prove valid for the analysis of the evaluative content of any other discourse type, although genres other than humor are beyond the scope of this paper. <br />Thus, this study has two main aims: On the one hand, it is proposed that evaluation be included in humor theories as one of its &#8216;knowledge resources&#8217;, and for this purpose Ruiz Gurillos&#8217;s <i>Revised General Theory of Verbal Humor</i> (2013) is taken as a point of departure. On the other hand, the six main variables or &#8216;knowledge resources&#8217; of evaluation (found as the result of previous research on the topic) are explained, discussed and exemplified within the specific genre of psychology jokes. Evaluation is viewed as a function of these resources, the relationship between them being therefore a functional relationship. 10 01 JB code ivitra.14.03ala 35 56 22 Article 4 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Humor and advertising in Twitter</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">An approach from the General Theory of Verbal Humor and Metapragmatics</Subtitle> 1 A01 Ana Pano Alamán Pano Alamán, Ana Ana Pano Alamán Università di Bologna 2 A01 Ana Mancera Rueda Rueda, Ana Mancera Ana Mancera Rueda Universidad de Sevilla 20 General Theory of Verbal Humor 20 Metapragmatics 20 Spanish advertising 20 Twitter 01 Irony and verbal humor play a leading role in computer-mediated discourses. Irony, for instance, is mainly used to criticise politics and politicians in Twitter, while verbal humor contributes to strengthen social relations in Twitter or Facebook. In this paper, we focus on humor in order to explore more in deep its mechanisms, function, and effects within Twitter &#8220;conversations&#8221; between Spanish companies or public institutions and microblog users. Assuming the main premises of the General Theory of Verbal Humor and adopting a metapragmatic approach, this research aims at identifying the knowledge resources at work when humor is used as an advertising strategy; as well as categorizing these tweets according to the types of logical mechanisms adopted by the interactants to solve the script-opposition in which humor is based. The analysis proves that verbal and visual humor is a strategy adopted by most companies and institutions in order to give visibility to their products and services and to reinforce the social ties with their potential customers. 10 01 JB code ivitra.14.04gue 57 77 21 Article 5 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Beyond verbal incongruity</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">A genre-specific model for the interpretation of humor in political cartoons</Subtitle> 1 A01 Marta Agüero Guerra Agüero Guerra, Marta Marta Agüero Guerra University of Iowa 20 humor 20 multimodality 20 political cartoons 20 social semiotics 01 The General Theory of Verbal Humor (Attardo and Raskin 1991) opened the path to study the mechanisms of humor. Research on the comprehension and production of cartoons has traditionally adopted cognitive-semantic theories to explain how readers interpret their humorous messages. While perfectly applicable, these theories focus on the linguistic components of cartoons, analyzing exclusively the text in their speech balloons or captions with little to no attention paid to what the visual components add to their meaning. This paper analyzes the nature of cartoons as narrative monomodal or multimodal ensembles and revisits previous approaches with the goal of proposing a new genre-specific model for the understanding of their humorous messages. 10 01 JB code ivitra.14.05rui 79 101 23 Article 6 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Metapragmatics of humor</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Variability, negotiability and adaptability in humorous monologues</Subtitle> 1 A01 Leonor Ruiz-Gurillo Ruiz-Gurillo, Leonor Leonor Ruiz-Gurillo University of Alicante, GRIALE Research Group 20 General Theory of Verbal Humor 20 humor 20 humorous monologue 20 metapragmatics 20 pragmatic awareness 01 The main aim of this paper is to propose a theoretical model for the study of humor as a metapragmatic ability, the so-called metapragmatics of humor (MH). After offering a short overview, humor will be analyzed from the conception of metapragmatics according to Verschueren (1999), (2000), (2009). Considering humor as a continuous choice where variability, negotiability, and adaptability become key notions, the <i>knowledge resources</i> in the <i>General Theory of Verbal Humor</i> (GTVH) (Attardo and Raskin 1991; Attardo 2001a, 2008; Ruiz-Gurillo, 2012) will be understood as metapragmatic awareness processes. Our proposal intends to integrate the productive process of the writer/speaker along with the interpretative process of the reader/listener. Finally, this metapragmatics of humor will be applied to humorous monologues. 10 01 JB code ivitra.14.p2 Section header 7 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Part 2. Metapragmatic awareness of humor across textual modes</TitleText> 10 01 JB code p2.1 Section header 8 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">2.1. Jokes</TitleText> 10 01 JB code ivitra.14.06cam 107 125 19 Article 9 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Lawyers, great lawyers, and liars</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">The metapragmatics of lying in lawyer jokes</Subtitle> 1 A01 Miguel Ángel Campos Pardillos Campos Pardillos, Miguel Ángel Miguel Ángel Campos Pardillos University of Alicante 20 lawyer jokes 20 legal language 20 metalinguistic humor 20 pragmatics of lying 01 This chapter analyses the pragmatic structure of lawyer jokes, specifically those based on explicit references to lawyers&#8217; inclination towards lying and their ability thereto. Lying has been extensively studied as an indication that the Cooperative Principle has not been followed; however, the explicit reference to lying as a practice found in lawyer jokes has not received much attention. From a sample of lawyer jokes collected from various online sources, the metapragmatic mechanisms of non-truthful statements and lying are described from a double point of view: the social implication of lawyers as liars and a Gricean analysis of lawyers not following cooperative principles in communication. The analysis demonstrates how these can lead to humorous reactions, but also, to the construction and acceptance of a cultural stereotype that represents a given profession as a dishonest one. This study shows that lying is indeed a source of humorous effects, and that such results are not hampered by the explicit reference to lying. This seems to favor a new approach to the analysis of jokes whose success may be based on their explicitness, but also on a clear metapragmatic awareness. 10 01 JB code ivitra.14.07bal 127 143 17 Article 10 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">A look at metalinguistic jokes based on intentional morphological reanalysis</TitleText> <TitlePrefix>A </TitlePrefix> <TitleWithoutPrefix textformat="02">look at metalinguistic jokes based on intentional morphological reanalysis</TitleWithoutPrefix> 1 A01 Isabel Balteiro Balteiro, Isabel Isabel Balteiro University of Alicante 20 ambiguity 20 intentional morphological misinterpretation 20 metalinguistic jokes 20 morphological reanalysis 20 word play 01 This chapter analyses metalinguistic jokes produced by intentional morphological reanalysis, particularly, those which involve intentional morphological misinterpretations of morphemes or word parts. One single morpheme or word may be decomposed into pseudo-morphemes, through what Guiraud (1976) calls &#8220;defunctionalization&#8221; of language, which most often become fully meaningful and transparent due to their formal identity with an already existent free morpheme. Consequently, new, potential and highly motivated words are created with humorous purposes. In our sample, the manipulation and reinterpretation of the <i>a priori</i> indivisible word structures are supported by the existence of, mainly, homophones and paronyms, graphic marks and, less frequently, by slight spelling changes, e.g. Q: What do you give a skeleton for Valentine&#8217;s Day? A: Bone-bones in a heart-shaped box. 10 01 JB code p2.2 Section header 11 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">2.2. TV genres</TitleText> 10 01 JB code ivitra.14.08gro 147 175 29 Article 12 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">How do French humorists adapt across situations?</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">A corpus study of their prosodic and (dis)fluency profiles</Subtitle> 1 A01 Iulia Grosman Grosman, Iulia Iulia Grosman The VALIBEL Research Centre, Institute for Language and Communication (IL&C), Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) 20 corpus linguistics 20 disfluencies 20 French 20 humorists' speech 20 prosody 20 register and style variation 01 The paradigm of humor studies has deemed prosody (<i>rhythm and intonation</i>) and (dis)fluencies (<i>discourse markers, filled and unfilled pauses, repetitions,</i> etc.) as relevant cues in conversational humor for expression of sarcasm and irony. However, they also make valuable (interactive) devices for discourse planning and structure since they carry both semantic and pragmatic information. After a summary on the study of humorists&#8217; speech and its meta-pragmatic implications (Sections 1 &#38; 2), a two-fold corpus-based analysis offers results on 8 humorists&#8217; speech variations across 4 situations (<i>theatre and radio sketches, radio and face-to-face interviews</i>) and their relevant contextual features. Firstly on the continuum from hypo- to hyper-articulation (Lindblom, 1990), temporal and melodic variations reveal which discourse adaptation is motivated by a specific pragmatic determiner. Secondly, (dis)fluencies&#8217; distribution within speakers and across situations reveal the importance of the individual&#8217;s <i>Speaker Dis/Fluency Profile (SDFP)</i>. Discussion shall focus on the study&#8217;s contribution to humorists&#8217; <i>phonostyles</i> and persona, as well as on the implication of native language SDFP for assessment of non-native speakers. 10 01 JB code ivitra.14.09ste 177 189 13 Article 13 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Truthiness and consequences</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">A cognitive pragmatic analysis of Stephen Colbert&#8217;s satirical strategies and effects</Subtitle> 1 A01 Craig O. Stewart Stewart, Craig O. Craig O. Stewart Department of Communication, University of Memphis 20 discourse analysis 20 humor 20 irony 20 pragmatics 20 satire 20 Stephen Colbert 01 Using a discourse perspective on the production and reception of satire, this paper comparatively examines the different satirical goals and audiences of Stephen Colbert&#8217;s ironic satire on <i>The Colbert Report</i> (<i>TCR</i>) and at the 2006 White House Correspondents&#8217; Dinner (WHCD). While some research suggests at least some viewers of <i>TCR</i> did not perceive it to be ironic satire, Colbert&#8217;s WHCD speech successfully and unambiguously achieved its satirical goals. The analysis shows that one possible explanation for the success of the speech, as opposed to the ambiguity of <i>The Colbert Report</i>, is that the speech&#8217;s structure facilitated both the immediate audience&#8217;s and potential mediated referee&#8217;s cognitive processing of satirical communication as described in Simpson&#8217;s (2003) discourse model of satire. 10 01 JB code p2.3 Section header 14 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">2.3. Conversation</TitleText> 10 01 JB code ivitra.14.10alv 193 214 22 Article 15 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Variability, adaptability and negotiability in conversational humor</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">A matter of gender</Subtitle> 1 A01 M. Belén Alvarado Ortega Alvarado Ortega, M. Belén M. Belén Alvarado Ortega University of Alicante, GRIALE Research Group 20 adaptability 20 conversational strategies 20 image 20 negotiability 20 variability 01 The present study has as its aim to analyze conversational utterances containing humor produced by men and women from the pragmatic perspective of Verschueren (2002), ultimately seeking to check whether discrepancies exist between the respective strategies that they use. In most cases, the interlocutors utilize different linguistic procedures to adapt their utterance &#8211; or not &#8211; to the humorous mode, by means of various conversational strategies that will depend both on gender and on the contextual situation. It all is determined by the nature of the corpus gathered as well as by the concepts of <i>variability, adaptability</i> and <i>negotiability</i> described by Verschueren (1999, 2002). Briz and the Val.Es.Co. Group&#8217;s <i>Corpus de conversaciones coloquiales</i> [Corpus of Colloquial Conversations], which is currently going through a digitization process, was used to achieve our aims. The analysis showed us that, when humor appears, each gender&#8217;s identity is defined through different strategies and procedures to adapt to the context. 10 01 JB code ivitra.14.11pri 215 233 19 Article 16 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Teasing in casual conversations</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">An opportunistic discursive strategy</Subtitle> 1 A01 Béatrice Priego-Valverde Priego-Valverde, Béatrice Béatrice Priego-Valverde Aix-Marseille Université, Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Aix en Provence, France 20 “linguistic pinning” 20 casual conversation 20 conversational humor 20 teasing 01 In order to study teasing in casual conversations, I will focus the present work on a specific humorous device that frequently occurs in casual conversations: &#8220;linguistic pinning&#8221; (Traverso, 1999) described as a verbatim repetition of a word or expression said by the hearer to create humor. Teasing, as many other forms of conversational humor in a broad sense, is thus seen as a rebound on, at least, the prior turn. Consequently, the humorous speaker will be depicted as both a participant able to adapt her/himself to the context (discursive and more generally, relational) and an opportunist, watching out for the possibility of producing humor. <br />After a description of the forms and function of linguistic pinning and after a comparison to other related phenomena (repetition and punning), I will analyze seven examples of pinning to show its discursive functioning and some reactions it triggers. 10 01 JB code ivitra.14.12gir 235 254 20 Article 17 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Smiling, gaze, and humor in conversation</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">A pilot study</Subtitle> 1 A01 Elisa Gironzetti Gironzetti, Elisa Elisa Gironzetti Texas A&M University x Commerce, Applied Linguistics Laboratory 2 A01 Salvatore Attardo Attardo, Salvatore Salvatore Attardo 3 A01 Lucy Pickering Pickering, Lucy Lucy Pickering 20 discourse analysis 20 eye-tracking 20 gaze 20 humor markers 20 smiling 01 This paper presents a pilot study, which is part of a larger research project intended to shed light on the role of smiling as a marker of humor in naturalistic conversation. Building on previous research (Attardo, Pickering, and Baker 2011; Calvo, Fern&#225;ndez-Mart&#237;n, and Nummenmaa 2013; Calvo, Guti&#233;rrez-Garc&#237;a, Avero, and Lundqvist 2013; Heerey and Crossley 2013), a mixed methods approach was adopted to collect qualitative and quantitative data in order to determine if there is a relationship between gaze patterns, humorous events, and the smiling behavior of native English speakers taking part in a dyadic face-to-face conversation. Preliminary results show that occurrence of humor and increased participants&#8217; attention to the mouth and eyes areas of the interlocutor&#8217;s face tend to co-occur. 10 01 JB code ivitra.14.p3 Section header 18 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Part 3. Metapragmatic practices within the acquisition of humor</TitleText> 10 01 JB code ivitra.14.13hoi 257 272 16 Article 19 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Understanding of humorous intentions</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">A developmental approach</Subtitle> 1 A01 Elena Hoicka Hoicka, Elena Elena Hoicka University of Sheffield 20 development 20 humor 20 intention 20 joke 20 social cognition 01 This paper demonstrates that children understand humor from an intentional perspective as young as 2 years. This is interesting from two vantage points. First, the research shows that children understand both humor and intentions separately before understanding humorous intentions, suggesting these two concepts are dissociable. However, the research presented suggests that understanding humorous intentions could be a gateway to understanding intentions in complex ways. Humor is the first type of non-literal communication that children understand from an intentional viewpoint, compared to pretending, lying, metaphor, and irony. Understanding humorous intentions may thus allow children to identify and practice understanding others&#8217; mental states in increasingly complex ways. 10 01 JB code ivitra.14.14tim 273 298 26 Article 20 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Children using phraseology for humorous purposes</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">The case of 9-to-10-year-olds</Subtitle> 1 A01 Larissa Timofeeva-Timofeev Timofeeva-Timofeev, Larissa Larissa Timofeeva-Timofeev University of Alicante, GRIALE Research Group 20 children's language 20 humor 20 metapragmatic ability 20 phraseology 01 This paper analyzes the use of phraseological procedures for humorous purposes in 9-to-10-year-olds&#8217; written production with regard to their metapragmatic development. 148 humorous stories written by 4th grade Primary School children from 5 schools located in the province of Alicante (Spain) were quantitatively and qualitatively processed. The analysis revealed that children belonging to the age group examined use phraseology for humor in a mainly epipragmatic way, although evidence of metapragmatic reflection exists as well. Phrasal compounds and idioms present similar use rates, which refutes the initial hypothesis according to which transparent phrasal compounds are preferred over more opaque idioms. The unexpected outcome of the study was the use &#8211; though scarce &#8211; of manipulated phraseological units, since this procedure implies a high metapragmatic competence. 02 JBENJAMINS John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam/Philadelphia NL 04 20161124 2016 John Benjamins B.V. 02 WORLD 13 15 9789027240200 01 JB 3 John Benjamins e-Platform 03 jbe-platform.com 09 WORLD 21 01 00 99.00 EUR R 01 00 83.00 GBP Z 01 gen 00 149.00 USD S 963017032 03 01 01 JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 JB code IVITRA 14 Hb 15 9789027240200 13 2016034644 BB 01 IVITRA 02 2211-5412 IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature 14 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Metapragmatics of Humor</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Current research trends</Subtitle> 01 ivitra.14 01 https://benjamins.com 02 https://benjamins.com/catalog/ivitra.14 1 B01 Leonor Ruiz-Gurillo Ruiz-Gurillo, Leonor Leonor Ruiz-Gurillo University of Alicante 01 eng 307 vi 301 LAN009030 v.2006 CFG 2 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.DISC Discourse studies 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.HUMOR Humor studies 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.PRAG Pragmatics 06 01 <i>Metapragmatics of Humor: Current research trends</i> 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. 05 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 05 The pragmatics of humor is a highly attractive area of research in present-day<br />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 05 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) 05 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 05 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) 04 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475/ivitra.14.png 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_jpg/9789027240200.jpg 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_tif/9789027240200.tif 06 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_front/ivitra.14.hb.png 07 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/125/ivitra.14.png 25 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_back/ivitra.14.hb.png 27 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/3d_web/ivitra.14.hb.png 10 01 JB code ivitra.14.01int 1 8 8 Article 1 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Exploring metapragmatics of humor</TitleText> 1 A01 Leonor Ruiz-Gurillo Ruiz-Gurillo, Leonor Leonor Ruiz-Gurillo University of Alicante, GRIALE Research Group 10 01 JB code ivitra.14.p1 Section header 2 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Part 1. Revisions and applications of <i>General Theory of Verbal Humor</i> (GTVH) in a metapragmatic context</TitleText> 10 01 JB code ivitra.14.02jue 11 34 24 Article 3 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">The variables of the evaluative functional relationship</TitleText> <TitlePrefix>The </TitlePrefix> <TitleWithoutPrefix textformat="02">variables of the evaluative functional relationship</TitleWithoutPrefix> <Subtitle textformat="02">The case of humorous discourse</Subtitle> 1 A01 Laura Alba-Juez Alba-Juez, Laura Laura Alba-Juez UNED 20 evaluative function 20 functional relationship 20 humorous discourse 20 knowledge resources/variables of the evaluation function ‘F' 20 stance 01 In this paper I focus on the evaluative content of humor, an aspect which &#8211; to date and to my knowledge &#8211; has been dealt with only in a peripheral manner by research both on humor and on evaluation. Linguistic evaluation is viewed herein as a dynamical subsystem of language (as discussed in Alba-Juez &#38; Alba-Juez 2012), and it is argued that it should be studied and analyzed as an important element in any theory of humor performance. A corpus of 100 psychology jokes in English and Spanish found on jokes websites was used as data, whose evaluative content was examined taking into account the findings of previous research on stance and evaluative language (e.g. Hunston &#38; Thompson 2000; Martin &#38; White 2005; Englebretson 2007; Bednarek 2006, 2008a, 2008b, 2009a &#38; b; Thompson &#38; Alba-Juez 2014) and the evaluative function of irony (e.g. Partington 2007, 2011; Alba-Juez &#38; Attardo 2014). <br />Evaluation is treated herein as a pragmatic and cognitive phenomenon which is a function of a number of variables that interact with one another. Thus, a methodology and procedure to analyze the stance taken by the jokester (and transmitted through the jokes) is proposed, by means of which the evaluative content of the jokes is scrutinized in order to assign the corresponding qualitative values to each one of these interacting variables. This methodology is applied not only to the analysis of jokes in isolation, but also to the comparison of the evaluative equations of different jokes, or of similar jokes in different languages (English and Spanish, in this particular case). Likewise, it is suggested that this procedure can prove valid for the analysis of the evaluative content of any other discourse type, although genres other than humor are beyond the scope of this paper. <br />Thus, this study has two main aims: On the one hand, it is proposed that evaluation be included in humor theories as one of its &#8216;knowledge resources&#8217;, and for this purpose Ruiz Gurillos&#8217;s <i>Revised General Theory of Verbal Humor</i> (2013) is taken as a point of departure. On the other hand, the six main variables or &#8216;knowledge resources&#8217; of evaluation (found as the result of previous research on the topic) are explained, discussed and exemplified within the specific genre of psychology jokes. Evaluation is viewed as a function of these resources, the relationship between them being therefore a functional relationship. 10 01 JB code ivitra.14.03ala 35 56 22 Article 4 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Humor and advertising in Twitter</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">An approach from the General Theory of Verbal Humor and Metapragmatics</Subtitle> 1 A01 Ana Pano Alamán Pano Alamán, Ana Ana Pano Alamán Università di Bologna 2 A01 Ana Mancera Rueda Rueda, Ana Mancera Ana Mancera Rueda Universidad de Sevilla 20 General Theory of Verbal Humor 20 Metapragmatics 20 Spanish advertising 20 Twitter 01 Irony and verbal humor play a leading role in computer-mediated discourses. Irony, for instance, is mainly used to criticise politics and politicians in Twitter, while verbal humor contributes to strengthen social relations in Twitter or Facebook. In this paper, we focus on humor in order to explore more in deep its mechanisms, function, and effects within Twitter &#8220;conversations&#8221; between Spanish companies or public institutions and microblog users. Assuming the main premises of the General Theory of Verbal Humor and adopting a metapragmatic approach, this research aims at identifying the knowledge resources at work when humor is used as an advertising strategy; as well as categorizing these tweets according to the types of logical mechanisms adopted by the interactants to solve the script-opposition in which humor is based. The analysis proves that verbal and visual humor is a strategy adopted by most companies and institutions in order to give visibility to their products and services and to reinforce the social ties with their potential customers. 10 01 JB code ivitra.14.04gue 57 77 21 Article 5 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Beyond verbal incongruity</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">A genre-specific model for the interpretation of humor in political cartoons</Subtitle> 1 A01 Marta Agüero Guerra Agüero Guerra, Marta Marta Agüero Guerra University of Iowa 20 humor 20 multimodality 20 political cartoons 20 social semiotics 01 The General Theory of Verbal Humor (Attardo and Raskin 1991) opened the path to study the mechanisms of humor. Research on the comprehension and production of cartoons has traditionally adopted cognitive-semantic theories to explain how readers interpret their humorous messages. While perfectly applicable, these theories focus on the linguistic components of cartoons, analyzing exclusively the text in their speech balloons or captions with little to no attention paid to what the visual components add to their meaning. This paper analyzes the nature of cartoons as narrative monomodal or multimodal ensembles and revisits previous approaches with the goal of proposing a new genre-specific model for the understanding of their humorous messages. 10 01 JB code ivitra.14.05rui 79 101 23 Article 6 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Metapragmatics of humor</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Variability, negotiability and adaptability in humorous monologues</Subtitle> 1 A01 Leonor Ruiz-Gurillo Ruiz-Gurillo, Leonor Leonor Ruiz-Gurillo University of Alicante, GRIALE Research Group 20 General Theory of Verbal Humor 20 humor 20 humorous monologue 20 metapragmatics 20 pragmatic awareness 01 The main aim of this paper is to propose a theoretical model for the study of humor as a metapragmatic ability, the so-called metapragmatics of humor (MH). After offering a short overview, humor will be analyzed from the conception of metapragmatics according to Verschueren (1999), (2000), (2009). Considering humor as a continuous choice where variability, negotiability, and adaptability become key notions, the <i>knowledge resources</i> in the <i>General Theory of Verbal Humor</i> (GTVH) (Attardo and Raskin 1991; Attardo 2001a, 2008; Ruiz-Gurillo, 2012) will be understood as metapragmatic awareness processes. Our proposal intends to integrate the productive process of the writer/speaker along with the interpretative process of the reader/listener. Finally, this metapragmatics of humor will be applied to humorous monologues. 10 01 JB code ivitra.14.p2 Section header 7 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Part 2. Metapragmatic awareness of humor across textual modes</TitleText> 10 01 JB code p2.1 Section header 8 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">2.1. Jokes</TitleText> 10 01 JB code ivitra.14.06cam 107 125 19 Article 9 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Lawyers, great lawyers, and liars</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">The metapragmatics of lying in lawyer jokes</Subtitle> 1 A01 Miguel Ángel Campos Pardillos Campos Pardillos, Miguel Ángel Miguel Ángel Campos Pardillos University of Alicante 20 lawyer jokes 20 legal language 20 metalinguistic humor 20 pragmatics of lying 01 This chapter analyses the pragmatic structure of lawyer jokes, specifically those based on explicit references to lawyers&#8217; inclination towards lying and their ability thereto. Lying has been extensively studied as an indication that the Cooperative Principle has not been followed; however, the explicit reference to lying as a practice found in lawyer jokes has not received much attention. From a sample of lawyer jokes collected from various online sources, the metapragmatic mechanisms of non-truthful statements and lying are described from a double point of view: the social implication of lawyers as liars and a Gricean analysis of lawyers not following cooperative principles in communication. The analysis demonstrates how these can lead to humorous reactions, but also, to the construction and acceptance of a cultural stereotype that represents a given profession as a dishonest one. This study shows that lying is indeed a source of humorous effects, and that such results are not hampered by the explicit reference to lying. This seems to favor a new approach to the analysis of jokes whose success may be based on their explicitness, but also on a clear metapragmatic awareness. 10 01 JB code ivitra.14.07bal 127 143 17 Article 10 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">A look at metalinguistic jokes based on intentional morphological reanalysis</TitleText> <TitlePrefix>A </TitlePrefix> <TitleWithoutPrefix textformat="02">look at metalinguistic jokes based on intentional morphological reanalysis</TitleWithoutPrefix> 1 A01 Isabel Balteiro Balteiro, Isabel Isabel Balteiro University of Alicante 20 ambiguity 20 intentional morphological misinterpretation 20 metalinguistic jokes 20 morphological reanalysis 20 word play 01 This chapter analyses metalinguistic jokes produced by intentional morphological reanalysis, particularly, those which involve intentional morphological misinterpretations of morphemes or word parts. One single morpheme or word may be decomposed into pseudo-morphemes, through what Guiraud (1976) calls &#8220;defunctionalization&#8221; of language, which most often become fully meaningful and transparent due to their formal identity with an already existent free morpheme. Consequently, new, potential and highly motivated words are created with humorous purposes. In our sample, the manipulation and reinterpretation of the <i>a priori</i> indivisible word structures are supported by the existence of, mainly, homophones and paronyms, graphic marks and, less frequently, by slight spelling changes, e.g. Q: What do you give a skeleton for Valentine&#8217;s Day? A: Bone-bones in a heart-shaped box. 10 01 JB code p2.2 Section header 11 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">2.2. TV genres</TitleText> 10 01 JB code ivitra.14.08gro 147 175 29 Article 12 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">How do French humorists adapt across situations?</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">A corpus study of their prosodic and (dis)fluency profiles</Subtitle> 1 A01 Iulia Grosman Grosman, Iulia Iulia Grosman The VALIBEL Research Centre, Institute for Language and Communication (IL&C), Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) 20 corpus linguistics 20 disfluencies 20 French 20 humorists' speech 20 prosody 20 register and style variation 01 The paradigm of humor studies has deemed prosody (<i>rhythm and intonation</i>) and (dis)fluencies (<i>discourse markers, filled and unfilled pauses, repetitions,</i> etc.) as relevant cues in conversational humor for expression of sarcasm and irony. However, they also make valuable (interactive) devices for discourse planning and structure since they carry both semantic and pragmatic information. After a summary on the study of humorists&#8217; speech and its meta-pragmatic implications (Sections 1 &#38; 2), a two-fold corpus-based analysis offers results on 8 humorists&#8217; speech variations across 4 situations (<i>theatre and radio sketches, radio and face-to-face interviews</i>) and their relevant contextual features. Firstly on the continuum from hypo- to hyper-articulation (Lindblom, 1990), temporal and melodic variations reveal which discourse adaptation is motivated by a specific pragmatic determiner. Secondly, (dis)fluencies&#8217; distribution within speakers and across situations reveal the importance of the individual&#8217;s <i>Speaker Dis/Fluency Profile (SDFP)</i>. Discussion shall focus on the study&#8217;s contribution to humorists&#8217; <i>phonostyles</i> and persona, as well as on the implication of native language SDFP for assessment of non-native speakers. 10 01 JB code ivitra.14.09ste 177 189 13 Article 13 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Truthiness and consequences</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">A cognitive pragmatic analysis of Stephen Colbert&#8217;s satirical strategies and effects</Subtitle> 1 A01 Craig O. Stewart Stewart, Craig O. Craig O. Stewart Department of Communication, University of Memphis 20 discourse analysis 20 humor 20 irony 20 pragmatics 20 satire 20 Stephen Colbert 01 Using a discourse perspective on the production and reception of satire, this paper comparatively examines the different satirical goals and audiences of Stephen Colbert&#8217;s ironic satire on <i>The Colbert Report</i> (<i>TCR</i>) and at the 2006 White House Correspondents&#8217; Dinner (WHCD). While some research suggests at least some viewers of <i>TCR</i> did not perceive it to be ironic satire, Colbert&#8217;s WHCD speech successfully and unambiguously achieved its satirical goals. The analysis shows that one possible explanation for the success of the speech, as opposed to the ambiguity of <i>The Colbert Report</i>, is that the speech&#8217;s structure facilitated both the immediate audience&#8217;s and potential mediated referee&#8217;s cognitive processing of satirical communication as described in Simpson&#8217;s (2003) discourse model of satire. 10 01 JB code p2.3 Section header 14 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">2.3. Conversation</TitleText> 10 01 JB code ivitra.14.10alv 193 214 22 Article 15 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Variability, adaptability and negotiability in conversational humor</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">A matter of gender</Subtitle> 1 A01 M. Belén Alvarado Ortega Alvarado Ortega, M. Belén M. Belén Alvarado Ortega University of Alicante, GRIALE Research Group 20 adaptability 20 conversational strategies 20 image 20 negotiability 20 variability 01 The present study has as its aim to analyze conversational utterances containing humor produced by men and women from the pragmatic perspective of Verschueren (2002), ultimately seeking to check whether discrepancies exist between the respective strategies that they use. In most cases, the interlocutors utilize different linguistic procedures to adapt their utterance &#8211; or not &#8211; to the humorous mode, by means of various conversational strategies that will depend both on gender and on the contextual situation. It all is determined by the nature of the corpus gathered as well as by the concepts of <i>variability, adaptability</i> and <i>negotiability</i> described by Verschueren (1999, 2002). Briz and the Val.Es.Co. Group&#8217;s <i>Corpus de conversaciones coloquiales</i> [Corpus of Colloquial Conversations], which is currently going through a digitization process, was used to achieve our aims. The analysis showed us that, when humor appears, each gender&#8217;s identity is defined through different strategies and procedures to adapt to the context. 10 01 JB code ivitra.14.11pri 215 233 19 Article 16 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Teasing in casual conversations</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">An opportunistic discursive strategy</Subtitle> 1 A01 Béatrice Priego-Valverde Priego-Valverde, Béatrice Béatrice Priego-Valverde Aix-Marseille Université, Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Aix en Provence, France 20 “linguistic pinning” 20 casual conversation 20 conversational humor 20 teasing 01 In order to study teasing in casual conversations, I will focus the present work on a specific humorous device that frequently occurs in casual conversations: &#8220;linguistic pinning&#8221; (Traverso, 1999) described as a verbatim repetition of a word or expression said by the hearer to create humor. Teasing, as many other forms of conversational humor in a broad sense, is thus seen as a rebound on, at least, the prior turn. Consequently, the humorous speaker will be depicted as both a participant able to adapt her/himself to the context (discursive and more generally, relational) and an opportunist, watching out for the possibility of producing humor. <br />After a description of the forms and function of linguistic pinning and after a comparison to other related phenomena (repetition and punning), I will analyze seven examples of pinning to show its discursive functioning and some reactions it triggers. 10 01 JB code ivitra.14.12gir 235 254 20 Article 17 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Smiling, gaze, and humor in conversation</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">A pilot study</Subtitle> 1 A01 Elisa Gironzetti Gironzetti, Elisa Elisa Gironzetti Texas A&M University x Commerce, Applied Linguistics Laboratory 2 A01 Salvatore Attardo Attardo, Salvatore Salvatore Attardo 3 A01 Lucy Pickering Pickering, Lucy Lucy Pickering 20 discourse analysis 20 eye-tracking 20 gaze 20 humor markers 20 smiling 01 This paper presents a pilot study, which is part of a larger research project intended to shed light on the role of smiling as a marker of humor in naturalistic conversation. Building on previous research (Attardo, Pickering, and Baker 2011; Calvo, Fern&#225;ndez-Mart&#237;n, and Nummenmaa 2013; Calvo, Guti&#233;rrez-Garc&#237;a, Avero, and Lundqvist 2013; Heerey and Crossley 2013), a mixed methods approach was adopted to collect qualitative and quantitative data in order to determine if there is a relationship between gaze patterns, humorous events, and the smiling behavior of native English speakers taking part in a dyadic face-to-face conversation. Preliminary results show that occurrence of humor and increased participants&#8217; attention to the mouth and eyes areas of the interlocutor&#8217;s face tend to co-occur. 10 01 JB code ivitra.14.p3 Section header 18 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Part 3. Metapragmatic practices within the acquisition of humor</TitleText> 10 01 JB code ivitra.14.13hoi 257 272 16 Article 19 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Understanding of humorous intentions</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">A developmental approach</Subtitle> 1 A01 Elena Hoicka Hoicka, Elena Elena Hoicka University of Sheffield 20 development 20 humor 20 intention 20 joke 20 social cognition 01 This paper demonstrates that children understand humor from an intentional perspective as young as 2 years. This is interesting from two vantage points. First, the research shows that children understand both humor and intentions separately before understanding humorous intentions, suggesting these two concepts are dissociable. However, the research presented suggests that understanding humorous intentions could be a gateway to understanding intentions in complex ways. Humor is the first type of non-literal communication that children understand from an intentional viewpoint, compared to pretending, lying, metaphor, and irony. Understanding humorous intentions may thus allow children to identify and practice understanding others&#8217; mental states in increasingly complex ways. 10 01 JB code ivitra.14.14tim 273 298 26 Article 20 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Children using phraseology for humorous purposes</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">The case of 9-to-10-year-olds</Subtitle> 1 A01 Larissa Timofeeva-Timofeev Timofeeva-Timofeev, Larissa Larissa Timofeeva-Timofeev University of Alicante, GRIALE Research Group 20 children's language 20 humor 20 metapragmatic ability 20 phraseology 01 This paper analyzes the use of phraseological procedures for humorous purposes in 9-to-10-year-olds&#8217; written production with regard to their metapragmatic development. 148 humorous stories written by 4th grade Primary School children from 5 schools located in the province of Alicante (Spain) were quantitatively and qualitatively processed. The analysis revealed that children belonging to the age group examined use phraseology for humor in a mainly epipragmatic way, although evidence of metapragmatic reflection exists as well. Phrasal compounds and idioms present similar use rates, which refutes the initial hypothesis according to which transparent phrasal compounds are preferred over more opaque idioms. 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