Patrawat Samermit
List of John Benjamins publications for which Patrawat Samermit plays a role.
Articles
2018 Humor, irony, and the body Issues in Humour Cognition, Dynel, Marta (ed.), pp. 72–96 | Article
Irony has traditionally been studied as a purely pragmatic phenomenon, one in which a speaker says one thing and means another, often by commenting on the contrast between expectation and reality. However, as cognitive linguists have discerned for many other aspects of language, much of the ways… read more
2017 Chapter 2. How does irony arise in experience? Irony in Language Use and Communication, Athanasiadou, Angeliki and Herbert L. Colston (eds.), pp. 43–60 | Chapter
How does irony arise in experience? Most studies of irony focus on the verbal expression of ironic meaning. Irony is typically viewed as a rhetorical tool used for indirect communication. But irony also emerges automatically in many nonlinguistic contexts. People often judge paradoxical situations… read more
2016 Humor, the body, and cognitive linguistics Cognitive Linguistic Studies 3:1, pp. 32–49 | Article
This article argues that the relationship between humor and the body is far more complex, and less linear, than typically presumed in theories of humor. First, cognitive linguistic studies suggest that our folk concepts of humor are fundamentally embodied, as well as mostly metaphorical. Second,… read more