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718007609 03 01 01 JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 JB code P&bns 182 Eb 15 9789027289339 06 10.1075/pbns.182 13 2009016221 DG 002 02 01 P&bns 02 0922-842X Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 182 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Humor in Interaction</TitleText> 01 pbns.182 01 https://benjamins.com 02 https://benjamins.com/catalog/pbns.182 1 B01 Neal R. Norrick Norrick, Neal R. Neal R. Norrick Saarland University 2 B01 Delia Chiaro Chiaro, Delia Delia Chiaro Alma mater studiorum Università di Bologna 01 eng 260 xvii 238 LAN009000 v.2006 CFG 2 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.DISC Discourse studies 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.PRAG Pragmatics 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.SOCIO Sociolinguistics and Dialectology 06 01 This is the first edited volume dedicated specifically to humor in interaction. It is a rich collection of essays by an international array of scholars representing various theoretical perspectives, but all concerned with interactional aspects of humor. The contributors are scholars active both in the interdisciplinary area of humor studies and in adjacent disciplines such as linguistic pragmatics, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, psycholinguistics, gender and translation studies. The volume effectively offers an overview of the range of phenomena falling in the broad category of ‘conversational humor’, and convincingly argues for the many different functions humor can fulfill, bypassing simplistic humor theories reducing humor to one function. All the articles draw on empirical material from different countries and cultures, comprising conversations among friends and family, talk in workplace situations, humor in educational settings, and experimental approaches to humor in interaction. The book is sure to become an important reference and source of inspiration for scholars in the various subfields of humor studies, pragmatics and (socio-)linguistics. 05 This fascinating volume offers a range of perspectives on humour in interaction, in contexts as diverse as the home, the workplace and the school, and also in experimental settings. The resulting collection will be an invaluable resource for scholars, and makes a significant contribution to the development of the burgeoning field of language and humour studies. Jennifer Coates, Professor of English Language & Linguistics, Roehampton University London 05 Most theoretical models of verbal humor are text-oriented. In contrast, the present interactional approach is speaker- and listener-oriented. Every paper in this volume demonstrates practical ways of collecting and interpretinginteractional data. An interactional approach allows an interdisciplinary description of how humor functions in discourse. This empirical groundedness shows that humor is an important linguistic tool in our everyday interaction. It serves multiple functions, such as construction of complex social identities or in-group affiliation. People draw on humor to construct their identities or to create intertextual connections. An interactional approach to humor emphasizes that any use of humor can be understood only in a particular context. Ksenia Shilikhina, Voronezh State University, on Linguist List 21.3430 (2011) 05 This study of reality humor deserves the attention of those studying social interaction. P.L. Derks, emeritus, College of William and Mary, in Choice, Vol. 41 No.11 (2010) 04 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475/pbns.182.png 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_jpg/9789027254276.jpg 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_tif/9789027254276.tif 06 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_front/pbns.182.hb.png 07 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/125/pbns.182.png 25 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_back/pbns.182.hb.png 27 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/3d_web/pbns.182.hb.png 10 01 JB code pbns.182.00toc ix xvii 9 Article 1 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Introduction: Humor and interaction</TitleText> 1 A01 Neal R. Norrick Norrick, Neal R. Neal R. Norrick 2 A01 Delia Chiaro Chiaro, Delia Delia Chiaro 10 01 JB code pbns.182.p1 Section header 2 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Part I: Conversation among friends and family</TitleText> 10 01 JB code pbns.182.01erv 3 28 26 Article 3 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">The occasioning of self-disclosure humor</TitleText> <TitlePrefix>The </TitlePrefix> <TitleWithoutPrefix textformat="02">occasioning of self-disclosure humor</TitleWithoutPrefix> 1 A01 Susan M. Ervin-Tripp Ervin-Tripp, Susan M. Susan M. Ervin-Tripp 2 A01 Martin Lampert Lampert, Martin Martin Lampert 01 Humor can be an effective means for introducing or modulating a discussion on matters of personal importance. In this paper, we examine the circumstances under which humor appears in conversational self-disclosures with friends. In an exploratory sample of 94 cases of self-disclosing humor from natural peer conversations, we found humorous self-disclosures and self-disclosures accompanied by laughter to occur in the continuation of an ongoing topic within the contexts of humorous rounds, troubles talk, complex narration, and entertainments. We also found humorous self-disclosures to be involved in topic changes within conversation and as reactions to accidents and teasing. We provided extensive examples of each type of humorous self-disclosure and discuss these illustrations in light of prior research on gender differences. &#8230; so I walked crooked up on the stage. [other women laugh] UC Disclab WCON1 10 01 JB code pbns.182.02nor 29 48 20 Article 4 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Direct address as a resource for humor</TitleText> 1 A01 Neal R. Norrick Norrick, Neal R. Neal R. Norrick 2 A01 Claudia Bubel Bubel, Claudia Claudia Bubel 01 This chapter explores the use of direct address to create humor in scripted jokes and in everyday conversation based on examples from corpora of transcribed conversational English. We take direct address to include any reference to a real or imagined listener with a proper or invented term of address. We show how forms of address in humor build on, extend and subvert the standard system. Direct address always has both an &#8216;attention, identification&#8217; function and a &#8216;contact, expressive&#8217; function, with one more prominent in any given context, but both these functions play various roles in the creation of humorous discourse, for instance when reciprocal direct address between friends, partners and family members leads to humorous banter in conversation. Ah, you sweet little rogue, you! Alas, poor ape, how thou sweat&#8217;st! Come, let me wipe thy face. Come on, you whoreson chops. Ah, rogue! i&#8217; faith, I love thee. Shakespeare Henry IV, Part II II. 4. 233&#8211;236 10 01 JB code pbns.182.03kot 49 78 30 Article 5 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">An interactional approach to irony development</TitleText> <TitlePrefix>An </TitlePrefix> <TitleWithoutPrefix textformat="02">interactional approach to irony development</TitleWithoutPrefix> 1 A01 Helga Kotthoff Kotthoff, Helga Helga Kotthoff 01 This article discusses conversational data from a project on how pupils use irony and related forms of communication. It employs a Bakhtinian and frame analytic approach combined with a pragmatics of presumptive meaning to understand what sorts of irony nine-year-olds use. Some types of irony correspond to teasing, others more to critical comments or joint fantasy production. The children in the study often perform an authoritative, ironic voice directed at the supervising university students, thereby showing their knowledge of typical adult voices and stances, and the students join in the irony by &#8220;playing along.&#8221; Irony thus helps the students and children to create an in-group that plays with its knowledge of offi cial and unoffi cial stances and unites in sharing unoffi cial perspectives and attitudes. 10 01 JB code pbns.182.04ger 79 98 20 Article 6 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Multimodal and intertextual humor in the media reception situation</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">The case of watching football on TV</Subtitle> 1 A01 Cornelia Gerhardt Gerhardt, Cornelia Cornelia Gerhardt 01 Based on natural data from media reception, the talk of television viewers watching football matches is analysed with regards to humor. Remarks on television are often greeted by (shared) laugher of the fans. However, laughter as such does not necessarily indicate humor. Instead, the celebrating fans also often laugh after goals. Principally, the fans appropriate the media text humorously either by multimodally referring to the pictures on the screen or by intertextually hinging their talk on the televised language. Formally, second person pronouns or sequences co-constructed with the sports announcers are used. Functionally, humor marks the activity as leisure. It helps the viewers negotiate world-views serving as contextualisation cue in the interpretation of the media text. 10 01 JB code pbns.182.p2 Section header 7 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Part II: Doing gender with humor in talk at work</TitleText> 10 01 JB code pbns.182.05sch 101 124 24 Article 8 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Using humor to do masculinity at work</TitleText> 1 A01 Stephanie Schnurr Schnurr, Stephanie Stephanie Schnurr 2 A01 Janet Holmes Holmes, Janet Janet Holmes 01 Workplaces constitute sites where individuals &#8220;do gender&#8221; while at the same time constructing their professional identities and meeting their organisation&#8217;s expectations. In most workplaces, a rather narrow range of masculine styles of interaction are considered normative. Discursive strategies associated with stereotypically masculine speech styles, as well as behaviours associated with the enactment of hegemonic masculinity are generally viewed as paradigmatic ways of interacting at work. Drawing on data recorded in a range of New Zealand professional organizations, this chapter investigates a range of ways in which normative masculinity is manifested in participants&#8217; discourse, and how notions of masculinity are explored and exploited in workplace interactions. The investigation focuses on one particularly versatile discursive strategy frequently employed in talk at work, namely humor. 10 01 JB code pbns.182.06vin 125 140 16 Article 9 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Boundary-marking humor</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Institutional, gender and ethnic demarcation in the workplace</Subtitle> 1 A01 Bernadette Vine Vine, Bernadette Bernadette Vine 2 A01 Susan Kell Kell, Susan Susan Kell 3 A01 Meredith Marra Marra, Meredith Meredith Marra 4 A01 Janet Holmes Holmes, Janet Janet Holmes 01 Drawing on recorded workplace meetings of Maori and Pakeha women in one New Zealand government department, this paper illustrates some of the complexities of boundary-marking humor. In particular, we analyse examples where the humor illuminates some of the tensions experienced by less powerful groups working within the institutional parameters or frameworks of more dominant groups or sources of influence. The relevant in-group shifts and the humor may correspondingly orient to boundaries dividing different institutional groups, different sexes, and different ethnic groups at different times. In each case, no members of the out-group are present and the humor functions to build solidarity and rapport between in-group members. 10 01 JB code pbns.182.p3 Section header 10 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Part III: Failed humor and its interactional effects</TitleText> 10 01 JB code pbns.182.07bel 143 164 22 Article 11 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Impolite responses to failed humor</TitleText> 1 A01 Nancy D. Bell Bell, Nancy D. Nancy D. Bell 01 The data discussed in this paper come from a larger project designed to address the neglected area of failed humor. A corpus of 207 elicited responses to failed humor was collected. The focus here is on the 44% that were coded as impolite. Findings show that most responses attacked the speaker using offensive, positive impoliteness strategies. Given that failing at humor is already humiliating, why might these interlocutors have opted to further punish the tellers with aggravated face attacks? Four somewhat overlapping reasons are suggested: the disruptive nature of humor, the expectations hearers held of the teller&#8217;s behavior, the characteristics of the study participants, and the identity concerns or face claims of the hearer. 10 01 JB code pbns.182.08pri 165 184 20 Article 12 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Failed humor in conversation</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">A double voicing analysis</Subtitle> 1 A01 Béatrice Priego-Valverde Priego-Valverde, Béatrice Béatrice Priego-Valverde 01 While humor in everyday conversation has been acknowledged widely as an area of linguistic research, failed humor has not received much linguistic attention. This paper describes unperceived humor and rejected humor, analyzing several examples from a conversational corpus using the double voicing approach according to Bakhtin. Unperceived humor can quickly lead to misunderstandings such as a joke being understood as a verbal attack. Rejected humor, on the other hand, is perceived but purposely ignored by one or several of the listeners, for instance in order to continue the discourse as planned. In both cases, the difference in mode of speech (bona fide communication versus non-serious communication) can be considered a major reason for the failure of humor. 10 01 JB code pbns.182.p4 Article 13 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Part IV: Humor in bilingual interactions</TitleText> 10 01 JB code pbns.182.09ker 187 210 24 Article 14 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Humor and interlanguage in a bilingual elementary school setting</TitleText> 1 A01 Kristin Kersten Kersten, Kristin Kristin Kersten 01 This article focuses on the relationship between humor and language acquisition in a bilingual immersion setting. Data stems from picture story narrations by 18 informants taking part in an English immersion program in Germany. The analysis concentrates on instances of laughter and smiling as they appear spontaneously during the child narrations. In an initial step, different categories of laughter are identified and subsequently analyzed with regard to their relation to humor and to (the second) language, respectively. A final step of analysis discusses the functions of these categories within the social interaction of interviewer and child. The results point to young language learners&#8217; use of humor (among other functions) as a mechanism to cope with the linguistic inadequacies of their interlanguage. 10 01 JB code pbns.182.10chi 211 232 22 Article 15 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Cultural divide or unifying factor?</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Humorous talk in the interaction of bilingual, cross-cultural couples</Subtitle> 1 A01 Delia Chiaro Chiaro, Delia Delia Chiaro 01 This essay sets out to explore a positive aspect of bilingual cross-cultural couples in long term relationships, namely the occurrence of what is considered a harmonious factor: humour. The results of a purpose-built questionnaire completed by 59 couples sheds light on a series of socio and psycholinguistic aspects of their daily relationship including language choice and attitudes in the domain of the couples&#8217; ludic interaction, such as when they joke with each other verbally and their use of humorous talk. This essay reports the findings of the processed data that emerged from the questionnaires as well as qualitative data deriving from a series of semi-structured interviews. I love you, I love you , I love you, that&#8217;s all I want to say, until I find a way, I will say the only words I know that you&#8217;ll understand, my Michelle. 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Norrick Norrick, Neal R. Neal R. Norrick Saarland University 2 B01 Delia Chiaro Chiaro, Delia Delia Chiaro Alma mater studiorum Università di Bologna 01 eng 260 xvii 238 LAN009000 v.2006 CFG 2 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.DISC Discourse studies 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.PRAG Pragmatics 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.SOCIO Sociolinguistics and Dialectology 06 01 This is the first edited volume dedicated specifically to humor in interaction. It is a rich collection of essays by an international array of scholars representing various theoretical perspectives, but all concerned with interactional aspects of humor. The contributors are scholars active both in the interdisciplinary area of humor studies and in adjacent disciplines such as linguistic pragmatics, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, psycholinguistics, gender and translation studies. The volume effectively offers an overview of the range of phenomena falling in the broad category of ‘conversational humor’, and convincingly argues for the many different functions humor can fulfill, bypassing simplistic humor theories reducing humor to one function. All the articles draw on empirical material from different countries and cultures, comprising conversations among friends and family, talk in workplace situations, humor in educational settings, and experimental approaches to humor in interaction. The book is sure to become an important reference and source of inspiration for scholars in the various subfields of humor studies, pragmatics and (socio-)linguistics. 05 This fascinating volume offers a range of perspectives on humour in interaction, in contexts as diverse as the home, the workplace and the school, and also in experimental settings. The resulting collection will be an invaluable resource for scholars, and makes a significant contribution to the development of the burgeoning field of language and humour studies. Jennifer Coates, Professor of English Language & Linguistics, Roehampton University London 05 Most theoretical models of verbal humor are text-oriented. In contrast, the present interactional approach is speaker- and listener-oriented. Every paper in this volume demonstrates practical ways of collecting and interpretinginteractional data. An interactional approach allows an interdisciplinary description of how humor functions in discourse. This empirical groundedness shows that humor is an important linguistic tool in our everyday interaction. It serves multiple functions, such as construction of complex social identities or in-group affiliation. People draw on humor to construct their identities or to create intertextual connections. An interactional approach to humor emphasizes that any use of humor can be understood only in a particular context. Ksenia Shilikhina, Voronezh State University, on Linguist List 21.3430 (2011) 05 This study of reality humor deserves the attention of those studying social interaction. P.L. Derks, emeritus, College of William and Mary, in Choice, Vol. 41 No.11 (2010) 04 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475/pbns.182.png 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_jpg/9789027254276.jpg 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_tif/9789027254276.tif 06 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_front/pbns.182.hb.png 07 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/125/pbns.182.png 25 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_back/pbns.182.hb.png 27 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/3d_web/pbns.182.hb.png 10 01 JB code pbns.182.00toc ix xvii 9 Article 1 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Introduction: Humor and interaction</TitleText> 1 A01 Neal R. Norrick Norrick, Neal R. Neal R. Norrick 2 A01 Delia Chiaro Chiaro, Delia Delia Chiaro 10 01 JB code pbns.182.p1 Section header 2 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Part I: Conversation among friends and family</TitleText> 10 01 JB code pbns.182.01erv 3 28 26 Article 3 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">The occasioning of self-disclosure humor</TitleText> <TitlePrefix>The </TitlePrefix> <TitleWithoutPrefix textformat="02">occasioning of self-disclosure humor</TitleWithoutPrefix> 1 A01 Susan M. Ervin-Tripp Ervin-Tripp, Susan M. Susan M. Ervin-Tripp 2 A01 Martin Lampert Lampert, Martin Martin Lampert 01 Humor can be an effective means for introducing or modulating a discussion on matters of personal importance. In this paper, we examine the circumstances under which humor appears in conversational self-disclosures with friends. In an exploratory sample of 94 cases of self-disclosing humor from natural peer conversations, we found humorous self-disclosures and self-disclosures accompanied by laughter to occur in the continuation of an ongoing topic within the contexts of humorous rounds, troubles talk, complex narration, and entertainments. We also found humorous self-disclosures to be involved in topic changes within conversation and as reactions to accidents and teasing. We provided extensive examples of each type of humorous self-disclosure and discuss these illustrations in light of prior research on gender differences. &#8230; so I walked crooked up on the stage. [other women laugh] UC Disclab WCON1 10 01 JB code pbns.182.02nor 29 48 20 Article 4 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Direct address as a resource for humor</TitleText> 1 A01 Neal R. Norrick Norrick, Neal R. Neal R. Norrick 2 A01 Claudia Bubel Bubel, Claudia Claudia Bubel 01 This chapter explores the use of direct address to create humor in scripted jokes and in everyday conversation based on examples from corpora of transcribed conversational English. We take direct address to include any reference to a real or imagined listener with a proper or invented term of address. We show how forms of address in humor build on, extend and subvert the standard system. Direct address always has both an &#8216;attention, identification&#8217; function and a &#8216;contact, expressive&#8217; function, with one more prominent in any given context, but both these functions play various roles in the creation of humorous discourse, for instance when reciprocal direct address between friends, partners and family members leads to humorous banter in conversation. Ah, you sweet little rogue, you! Alas, poor ape, how thou sweat&#8217;st! Come, let me wipe thy face. Come on, you whoreson chops. Ah, rogue! i&#8217; faith, I love thee. Shakespeare Henry IV, Part II II. 4. 233&#8211;236 10 01 JB code pbns.182.03kot 49 78 30 Article 5 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">An interactional approach to irony development</TitleText> <TitlePrefix>An </TitlePrefix> <TitleWithoutPrefix textformat="02">interactional approach to irony development</TitleWithoutPrefix> 1 A01 Helga Kotthoff Kotthoff, Helga Helga Kotthoff 01 This article discusses conversational data from a project on how pupils use irony and related forms of communication. It employs a Bakhtinian and frame analytic approach combined with a pragmatics of presumptive meaning to understand what sorts of irony nine-year-olds use. Some types of irony correspond to teasing, others more to critical comments or joint fantasy production. The children in the study often perform an authoritative, ironic voice directed at the supervising university students, thereby showing their knowledge of typical adult voices and stances, and the students join in the irony by &#8220;playing along.&#8221; Irony thus helps the students and children to create an in-group that plays with its knowledge of offi cial and unoffi cial stances and unites in sharing unoffi cial perspectives and attitudes. 10 01 JB code pbns.182.04ger 79 98 20 Article 6 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Multimodal and intertextual humor in the media reception situation</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">The case of watching football on TV</Subtitle> 1 A01 Cornelia Gerhardt Gerhardt, Cornelia Cornelia Gerhardt 01 Based on natural data from media reception, the talk of television viewers watching football matches is analysed with regards to humor. Remarks on television are often greeted by (shared) laugher of the fans. However, laughter as such does not necessarily indicate humor. Instead, the celebrating fans also often laugh after goals. Principally, the fans appropriate the media text humorously either by multimodally referring to the pictures on the screen or by intertextually hinging their talk on the televised language. Formally, second person pronouns or sequences co-constructed with the sports announcers are used. Functionally, humor marks the activity as leisure. It helps the viewers negotiate world-views serving as contextualisation cue in the interpretation of the media text. 10 01 JB code pbns.182.p2 Section header 7 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Part II: Doing gender with humor in talk at work</TitleText> 10 01 JB code pbns.182.05sch 101 124 24 Article 8 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Using humor to do masculinity at work</TitleText> 1 A01 Stephanie Schnurr Schnurr, Stephanie Stephanie Schnurr 2 A01 Janet Holmes Holmes, Janet Janet Holmes 01 Workplaces constitute sites where individuals &#8220;do gender&#8221; while at the same time constructing their professional identities and meeting their organisation&#8217;s expectations. In most workplaces, a rather narrow range of masculine styles of interaction are considered normative. Discursive strategies associated with stereotypically masculine speech styles, as well as behaviours associated with the enactment of hegemonic masculinity are generally viewed as paradigmatic ways of interacting at work. Drawing on data recorded in a range of New Zealand professional organizations, this chapter investigates a range of ways in which normative masculinity is manifested in participants&#8217; discourse, and how notions of masculinity are explored and exploited in workplace interactions. The investigation focuses on one particularly versatile discursive strategy frequently employed in talk at work, namely humor. 10 01 JB code pbns.182.06vin 125 140 16 Article 9 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Boundary-marking humor</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Institutional, gender and ethnic demarcation in the workplace</Subtitle> 1 A01 Bernadette Vine Vine, Bernadette Bernadette Vine 2 A01 Susan Kell Kell, Susan Susan Kell 3 A01 Meredith Marra Marra, Meredith Meredith Marra 4 A01 Janet Holmes Holmes, Janet Janet Holmes 01 Drawing on recorded workplace meetings of Maori and Pakeha women in one New Zealand government department, this paper illustrates some of the complexities of boundary-marking humor. In particular, we analyse examples where the humor illuminates some of the tensions experienced by less powerful groups working within the institutional parameters or frameworks of more dominant groups or sources of influence. The relevant in-group shifts and the humor may correspondingly orient to boundaries dividing different institutional groups, different sexes, and different ethnic groups at different times. In each case, no members of the out-group are present and the humor functions to build solidarity and rapport between in-group members. 10 01 JB code pbns.182.p3 Section header 10 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Part III: Failed humor and its interactional effects</TitleText> 10 01 JB code pbns.182.07bel 143 164 22 Article 11 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Impolite responses to failed humor</TitleText> 1 A01 Nancy D. Bell Bell, Nancy D. Nancy D. Bell 01 The data discussed in this paper come from a larger project designed to address the neglected area of failed humor. A corpus of 207 elicited responses to failed humor was collected. The focus here is on the 44% that were coded as impolite. Findings show that most responses attacked the speaker using offensive, positive impoliteness strategies. Given that failing at humor is already humiliating, why might these interlocutors have opted to further punish the tellers with aggravated face attacks? Four somewhat overlapping reasons are suggested: the disruptive nature of humor, the expectations hearers held of the teller&#8217;s behavior, the characteristics of the study participants, and the identity concerns or face claims of the hearer. 10 01 JB code pbns.182.08pri 165 184 20 Article 12 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Failed humor in conversation</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">A double voicing analysis</Subtitle> 1 A01 Béatrice Priego-Valverde Priego-Valverde, Béatrice Béatrice Priego-Valverde 01 While humor in everyday conversation has been acknowledged widely as an area of linguistic research, failed humor has not received much linguistic attention. This paper describes unperceived humor and rejected humor, analyzing several examples from a conversational corpus using the double voicing approach according to Bakhtin. Unperceived humor can quickly lead to misunderstandings such as a joke being understood as a verbal attack. Rejected humor, on the other hand, is perceived but purposely ignored by one or several of the listeners, for instance in order to continue the discourse as planned. In both cases, the difference in mode of speech (bona fide communication versus non-serious communication) can be considered a major reason for the failure of humor. 10 01 JB code pbns.182.p4 Article 13 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Part IV: Humor in bilingual interactions</TitleText> 10 01 JB code pbns.182.09ker 187 210 24 Article 14 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Humor and interlanguage in a bilingual elementary school setting</TitleText> 1 A01 Kristin Kersten Kersten, Kristin Kristin Kersten 01 This article focuses on the relationship between humor and language acquisition in a bilingual immersion setting. Data stems from picture story narrations by 18 informants taking part in an English immersion program in Germany. The analysis concentrates on instances of laughter and smiling as they appear spontaneously during the child narrations. In an initial step, different categories of laughter are identified and subsequently analyzed with regard to their relation to humor and to (the second) language, respectively. A final step of analysis discusses the functions of these categories within the social interaction of interviewer and child. The results point to young language learners&#8217; use of humor (among other functions) as a mechanism to cope with the linguistic inadequacies of their interlanguage. 10 01 JB code pbns.182.10chi 211 232 22 Article 15 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Cultural divide or unifying factor?</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Humorous talk in the interaction of bilingual, cross-cultural couples</Subtitle> 1 A01 Delia Chiaro Chiaro, Delia Delia Chiaro 01 This essay sets out to explore a positive aspect of bilingual cross-cultural couples in long term relationships, namely the occurrence of what is considered a harmonious factor: humour. The results of a purpose-built questionnaire completed by 59 couples sheds light on a series of socio and psycholinguistic aspects of their daily relationship including language choice and attitudes in the domain of the couples&#8217; ludic interaction, such as when they joke with each other verbally and their use of humorous talk. This essay reports the findings of the processed data that emerged from the questionnaires as well as qualitative data deriving from a series of semi-structured interviews. I love you, I love you , I love you, that&#8217;s all I want to say, until I find a way, I will say the only words I know that you&#8217;ll understand, my Michelle. (Lennon-McCartney) 10 01 JB code pbns.182.16nam 233 235 3 Miscellaneous 16 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Name index</TitleText> 10 01 JB code pbns.182.17sub 237 238 2 Miscellaneous 17 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Subject index</TitleText> 02 JBENJAMINS John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam/Philadelphia NL 04 20090703 2009 John Benjamins 02 WORLD 01 245 mm 02 164 mm 08 630 gr 01 JB 1 John Benjamins Publishing Company +31 20 6304747 +31 20 6739773 bookorder@benjamins.nl 01 https://benjamins.com 01 WORLD US CA MX 21 41 20 01 02 JB 1 00 90.00 EUR R 02 02 JB 1 00 95.40 EUR R 01 JB 10 bebc +44 1202 712 934 +44 1202 712 913 sales@bebc.co.uk 03 GB 21 20 02 02 JB 1 00 76.00 GBP Z 01 JB 2 John Benjamins North America +1 800 562-5666 +1 703 661-1501 benjamins@presswarehouse.com 01 https://benjamins.com 01 US CA MX 21 20 01 gen 02 JB 1 00 135.00 USD 603009063 03 01 01 JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 JB code P&bns 182 Pb 15 9789027256164 13 2009016221 BC 01 P&bns 02 0922-842X Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 182 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Humor in Interaction</TitleText> 01 pbns.182 01 https://benjamins.com 02 https://benjamins.com/catalog/pbns.182 1 B01 Neal R. Norrick Norrick, Neal R. Neal R. Norrick Saarland University 2 B01 Delia Chiaro Chiaro, Delia Delia Chiaro Alma mater studiorum Università di Bologna 01 eng 260 xvii 238 LAN009000 v.2006 CFG 2 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.DISC Discourse studies 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.PRAG Pragmatics 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.SOCIO Sociolinguistics and Dialectology 06 01 This is the first edited volume dedicated specifically to humor in interaction. It is a rich collection of essays by an international array of scholars representing various theoretical perspectives, but all concerned with interactional aspects of humor. The contributors are scholars active both in the interdisciplinary area of humor studies and in adjacent disciplines such as linguistic pragmatics, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, psycholinguistics, gender and translation studies. The volume effectively offers an overview of the range of phenomena falling in the broad category of ‘conversational humor’, and convincingly argues for the many different functions humor can fulfill, bypassing simplistic humor theories reducing humor to one function. All the articles draw on empirical material from different countries and cultures, comprising conversations among friends and family, talk in workplace situations, humor in educational settings, and experimental approaches to humor in interaction. The book is sure to become an important reference and source of inspiration for scholars in the various subfields of humor studies, pragmatics and (socio-)linguistics. 05 This fascinating volume offers a range of perspectives on humour in interaction, in contexts as diverse as the home, the workplace and the school, and also in experimental settings. The resulting collection will be an invaluable resource for scholars, and makes a significant contribution to the development of the burgeoning field of language and humour studies. Jennifer Coates, Professor of English Language & Linguistics, Roehampton University London 05 Most theoretical models of verbal humor are text-oriented. In contrast, the present interactional approach is speaker- and listener-oriented. Every paper in this volume demonstrates practical ways of collecting and interpretinginteractional data. An interactional approach allows an interdisciplinary description of how humor functions in discourse. This empirical groundedness shows that humor is an important linguistic tool in our everyday interaction. It serves multiple functions, such as construction of complex social identities or in-group affiliation. People draw on humor to construct their identities or to create intertextual connections. An interactional approach to humor emphasizes that any use of humor can be understood only in a particular context. Ksenia Shilikhina, Voronezh State University, on Linguist List 21.3430 (2011) 05 This study of reality humor deserves the attention of those studying social interaction. P.L. Derks, emeritus, College of William and Mary, in Choice, Vol. 41 No.11 (2010) 04 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475/pbns.182.png 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_jpg/9789027254276.jpg 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_tif/9789027254276.tif 06 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_front/pbns.182.pb.png 07 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/125/pbns.182.png 25 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_back/pbns.182.pb.png 27 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/3d_web/pbns.182.pb.png 10 01 JB code pbns.182.00toc ix xvii 9 Article 1 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Introduction: Humor and interaction</TitleText> 1 A01 Neal R. Norrick Norrick, Neal R. Neal R. Norrick 2 A01 Delia Chiaro Chiaro, Delia Delia Chiaro 10 01 JB code pbns.182.p1 Section header 2 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Part I: Conversation among friends and family</TitleText> 10 01 JB code pbns.182.01erv 3 28 26 Article 3 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">The occasioning of self-disclosure humor</TitleText> <TitlePrefix>The </TitlePrefix> <TitleWithoutPrefix textformat="02">occasioning of self-disclosure humor</TitleWithoutPrefix> 1 A01 Susan M. Ervin-Tripp Ervin-Tripp, Susan M. Susan M. Ervin-Tripp 2 A01 Martin Lampert Lampert, Martin Martin Lampert 01 Humor can be an effective means for introducing or modulating a discussion on matters of personal importance. In this paper, we examine the circumstances under which humor appears in conversational self-disclosures with friends. In an exploratory sample of 94 cases of self-disclosing humor from natural peer conversations, we found humorous self-disclosures and self-disclosures accompanied by laughter to occur in the continuation of an ongoing topic within the contexts of humorous rounds, troubles talk, complex narration, and entertainments. We also found humorous self-disclosures to be involved in topic changes within conversation and as reactions to accidents and teasing. We provided extensive examples of each type of humorous self-disclosure and discuss these illustrations in light of prior research on gender differences. &#8230; so I walked crooked up on the stage. [other women laugh] UC Disclab WCON1 10 01 JB code pbns.182.02nor 29 48 20 Article 4 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Direct address as a resource for humor</TitleText> 1 A01 Neal R. Norrick Norrick, Neal R. Neal R. Norrick 2 A01 Claudia Bubel Bubel, Claudia Claudia Bubel 01 This chapter explores the use of direct address to create humor in scripted jokes and in everyday conversation based on examples from corpora of transcribed conversational English. We take direct address to include any reference to a real or imagined listener with a proper or invented term of address. We show how forms of address in humor build on, extend and subvert the standard system. Direct address always has both an &#8216;attention, identification&#8217; function and a &#8216;contact, expressive&#8217; function, with one more prominent in any given context, but both these functions play various roles in the creation of humorous discourse, for instance when reciprocal direct address between friends, partners and family members leads to humorous banter in conversation. Ah, you sweet little rogue, you! Alas, poor ape, how thou sweat&#8217;st! Come, let me wipe thy face. Come on, you whoreson chops. Ah, rogue! i&#8217; faith, I love thee. Shakespeare Henry IV, Part II II. 4. 233&#8211;236 10 01 JB code pbns.182.03kot 49 78 30 Article 5 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">An interactional approach to irony development</TitleText> <TitlePrefix>An </TitlePrefix> <TitleWithoutPrefix textformat="02">interactional approach to irony development</TitleWithoutPrefix> 1 A01 Helga Kotthoff Kotthoff, Helga Helga Kotthoff 01 This article discusses conversational data from a project on how pupils use irony and related forms of communication. It employs a Bakhtinian and frame analytic approach combined with a pragmatics of presumptive meaning to understand what sorts of irony nine-year-olds use. Some types of irony correspond to teasing, others more to critical comments or joint fantasy production. The children in the study often perform an authoritative, ironic voice directed at the supervising university students, thereby showing their knowledge of typical adult voices and stances, and the students join in the irony by &#8220;playing along.&#8221; Irony thus helps the students and children to create an in-group that plays with its knowledge of offi cial and unoffi cial stances and unites in sharing unoffi cial perspectives and attitudes. 10 01 JB code pbns.182.04ger 79 98 20 Article 6 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Multimodal and intertextual humor in the media reception situation</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">The case of watching football on TV</Subtitle> 1 A01 Cornelia Gerhardt Gerhardt, Cornelia Cornelia Gerhardt 01 Based on natural data from media reception, the talk of television viewers watching football matches is analysed with regards to humor. Remarks on television are often greeted by (shared) laugher of the fans. However, laughter as such does not necessarily indicate humor. Instead, the celebrating fans also often laugh after goals. Principally, the fans appropriate the media text humorously either by multimodally referring to the pictures on the screen or by intertextually hinging their talk on the televised language. Formally, second person pronouns or sequences co-constructed with the sports announcers are used. Functionally, humor marks the activity as leisure. It helps the viewers negotiate world-views serving as contextualisation cue in the interpretation of the media text. 10 01 JB code pbns.182.p2 Section header 7 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Part II: Doing gender with humor in talk at work</TitleText> 10 01 JB code pbns.182.05sch 101 124 24 Article 8 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Using humor to do masculinity at work</TitleText> 1 A01 Stephanie Schnurr Schnurr, Stephanie Stephanie Schnurr 2 A01 Janet Holmes Holmes, Janet Janet Holmes 01 Workplaces constitute sites where individuals &#8220;do gender&#8221; while at the same time constructing their professional identities and meeting their organisation&#8217;s expectations. In most workplaces, a rather narrow range of masculine styles of interaction are considered normative. Discursive strategies associated with stereotypically masculine speech styles, as well as behaviours associated with the enactment of hegemonic masculinity are generally viewed as paradigmatic ways of interacting at work. Drawing on data recorded in a range of New Zealand professional organizations, this chapter investigates a range of ways in which normative masculinity is manifested in participants&#8217; discourse, and how notions of masculinity are explored and exploited in workplace interactions. The investigation focuses on one particularly versatile discursive strategy frequently employed in talk at work, namely humor. 10 01 JB code pbns.182.06vin 125 140 16 Article 9 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Boundary-marking humor</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Institutional, gender and ethnic demarcation in the workplace</Subtitle> 1 A01 Bernadette Vine Vine, Bernadette Bernadette Vine 2 A01 Susan Kell Kell, Susan Susan Kell 3 A01 Meredith Marra Marra, Meredith Meredith Marra 4 A01 Janet Holmes Holmes, Janet Janet Holmes 01 Drawing on recorded workplace meetings of Maori and Pakeha women in one New Zealand government department, this paper illustrates some of the complexities of boundary-marking humor. In particular, we analyse examples where the humor illuminates some of the tensions experienced by less powerful groups working within the institutional parameters or frameworks of more dominant groups or sources of influence. The relevant in-group shifts and the humor may correspondingly orient to boundaries dividing different institutional groups, different sexes, and different ethnic groups at different times. In each case, no members of the out-group are present and the humor functions to build solidarity and rapport between in-group members. 10 01 JB code pbns.182.p3 Section header 10 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Part III: Failed humor and its interactional effects</TitleText> 10 01 JB code pbns.182.07bel 143 164 22 Article 11 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Impolite responses to failed humor</TitleText> 1 A01 Nancy D. Bell Bell, Nancy D. Nancy D. Bell 01 The data discussed in this paper come from a larger project designed to address the neglected area of failed humor. A corpus of 207 elicited responses to failed humor was collected. The focus here is on the 44% that were coded as impolite. Findings show that most responses attacked the speaker using offensive, positive impoliteness strategies. Given that failing at humor is already humiliating, why might these interlocutors have opted to further punish the tellers with aggravated face attacks? Four somewhat overlapping reasons are suggested: the disruptive nature of humor, the expectations hearers held of the teller&#8217;s behavior, the characteristics of the study participants, and the identity concerns or face claims of the hearer. 10 01 JB code pbns.182.08pri 165 184 20 Article 12 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Failed humor in conversation</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">A double voicing analysis</Subtitle> 1 A01 Béatrice Priego-Valverde Priego-Valverde, Béatrice Béatrice Priego-Valverde 01 While humor in everyday conversation has been acknowledged widely as an area of linguistic research, failed humor has not received much linguistic attention. This paper describes unperceived humor and rejected humor, analyzing several examples from a conversational corpus using the double voicing approach according to Bakhtin. Unperceived humor can quickly lead to misunderstandings such as a joke being understood as a verbal attack. Rejected humor, on the other hand, is perceived but purposely ignored by one or several of the listeners, for instance in order to continue the discourse as planned. In both cases, the difference in mode of speech (bona fide communication versus non-serious communication) can be considered a major reason for the failure of humor. 10 01 JB code pbns.182.p4 Article 13 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Part IV: Humor in bilingual interactions</TitleText> 10 01 JB code pbns.182.09ker 187 210 24 Article 14 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Humor and interlanguage in a bilingual elementary school setting</TitleText> 1 A01 Kristin Kersten Kersten, Kristin Kristin Kersten 01 This article focuses on the relationship between humor and language acquisition in a bilingual immersion setting. Data stems from picture story narrations by 18 informants taking part in an English immersion program in Germany. The analysis concentrates on instances of laughter and smiling as they appear spontaneously during the child narrations. In an initial step, different categories of laughter are identified and subsequently analyzed with regard to their relation to humor and to (the second) language, respectively. A final step of analysis discusses the functions of these categories within the social interaction of interviewer and child. The results point to young language learners&#8217; use of humor (among other functions) as a mechanism to cope with the linguistic inadequacies of their interlanguage. 10 01 JB code pbns.182.10chi 211 232 22 Article 15 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Cultural divide or unifying factor?</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Humorous talk in the interaction of bilingual, cross-cultural couples</Subtitle> 1 A01 Delia Chiaro Chiaro, Delia Delia Chiaro 01 This essay sets out to explore a positive aspect of bilingual cross-cultural couples in long term relationships, namely the occurrence of what is considered a harmonious factor: humour. The results of a purpose-built questionnaire completed by 59 couples sheds light on a series of socio and psycholinguistic aspects of their daily relationship including language choice and attitudes in the domain of the couples&#8217; ludic interaction, such as when they joke with each other verbally and their use of humorous talk. This essay reports the findings of the processed data that emerged from the questionnaires as well as qualitative data deriving from a series of semi-structured interviews. I love you, I love you , I love you, that&#8217;s all I want to say, until I find a way, I will say the only words I know that you&#8217;ll understand, my Michelle. (Lennon-McCartney) 10 01 JB code pbns.182.16nam 233 235 3 Miscellaneous 16 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Name index</TitleText> 10 01 JB code pbns.182.17sub 237 238 2 Miscellaneous 17 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Subject index</TitleText> 02 JBENJAMINS John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam/Philadelphia NL 04 20090703 2009 John Benjamins 02 WORLD 01 240 mm 02 160 mm 08 495 gr 01 JB 1 John Benjamins Publishing Company +31 20 6304747 +31 20 6739773 bookorder@benjamins.nl 01 https://benjamins.com 01 WORLD US CA MX 21 395 12 01 02 JB 1 00 33.00 EUR R 02 02 JB 1 00 34.98 EUR R 01 JB 10 bebc +44 1202 712 934 +44 1202 712 913 sales@bebc.co.uk 03 GB 21 12 02 02 JB 1 00 28.00 GBP Z 01 JB 2 John Benjamins North America +1 800 562-5666 +1 703 661-1501 benjamins@presswarehouse.com 01 https://benjamins.com 01 US CA MX 21 1 12 01 gen 02 JB 1 00 49.95 USD