Irony and Humor: From pragmatics to discourse
Edited by Leonor Ruiz-Gurillo and M. Belén Alvarado Ortega
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 231] 2013. vi, 270 pp.
M. Belén Alvarado Ortega
List of John Benjamins publications for which M. Belén Alvarado Ortega plays a role.
Title
Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Humor studies | Pragmatics
Articles
2023 Communicative strategies in interactional male humour: A study of (im)politeness The Pragmatics of Humour in Interactive Contexts, Linares Bernabéu, Esther (ed.), pp. 152–172 | Chapter
This paper will present an analysis of male interactional humour in Spanish conversation. Humour can appear in such conversations as a strategy to show (im)politeness between participants in the interaction. Focussing in particular on politeness strategies, we will seek to identify the different… read more
2016 Variability, adaptability and negotiability in conversational humor: A matter of gender Metapragmatics of Humor: Current research trends, Ruiz-Gurillo, Leonor (ed.), pp. 193–214 | Article
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… read more
2015 Phraseological features in conversational routines: An integrative model of autonomy Spanish Phraseology: Varieties and variations, Mogorrón Huerta, Pedro and Xavier Blanco (eds.), pp. 313–330 | Article
This paper deals with the analysis of routine formulas according to their degree of independence in discourse, with the aim of establishing a gradual line which restructures Sphere III (Corpas 1996, Alvarado 2015) — where phraseological utterances belong. The system developed by Briz and the Val.Es. read more
2015 Independencia y fórmulas rutinarias: Reestructuración de la Esfera III Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 28:1, pp. 1–16 | Article
This article presents an analysis of some phraseological units, conversational routines, according to their independence degree, in order to restructure Sphere III (Corpas, 1996). In this Sphere there are also proverbs and idioms. In an attempt to classify Spanish phraseological units, we have… read more
2014 Review of Gurillo (2012): La lingüística del humor en español Spanish in Context 11:2, pp. 294–296 | Review
2013 Failed humor in conversational utterances in Spanish Irony and Humor: From pragmatics to discourse, Ruiz-Gurillo, Leonor and M. Belén Alvarado Ortega (eds.), pp. 191–218 | Article
This paper offers a study proposal for the analysis of humorous utterances with failed humor due to lack of participation by the interlocutor in ongoing talk continuing humor. In fact, the listener or the speaker do understand humor, as some marks – such as laughter, amongst others – showed us… read more
2013 The pragmatics of irony and humor Irony and Humor: From pragmatics to discourse, Ruiz-Gurillo, Leonor and M. Belén Alvarado Ortega (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Article
2010 3. Being polite through irony Dialogue in Spanish: Studies in functions and contexts, Koike, Dale and Lidia Rodríguez-Alfano (eds.), pp. 55–68 | Chapter
This chapter examines irony and politeness in spoken Spanish utterances, two phenomena that have traditionally been considered contradictory. However, through the application of a pragmatic approach to spontaneous discourse, politeness and irony are found to be very close phenomena and irony can… read more
2008 Review of Gurillo (2006): Hechos pragmáticos del español Spanish in Context 5:2, pp. 305–307 | Review