The Importance of Not Being Earnest: The feeling behind laughter and humor
Wallace Chafe
[Consciousness & Emotion Book Series, 3] 2007. xiii, 167 pp.
Wallace Chafe
List of John Benjamins publications for which Wallace Chafe plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Cognitive psychology | Communication Studies | Consciousness research | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
On Language and Consciousness
Ray Jackendoff and Wallace Chafe
Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 4:1 (1996) viii, 217 pp.
Subjects Cognition and language | Consciousness research | Pragmatics
2016 Huron/Wendat interactions with the Seneca language Language Contact and Change in the Americas: Studies in honor of Marianne Mithun, Berez-Kroeker, Andrea L., Diane M. Hintz and Carmen Dagostino (eds.), pp. 189–218 | Article
This paper examines a historical language shift from Wendat, or Huron (Iroquoian), to Seneca (Iroquoian). Speakers of the two related polysynthetic languages were in intense contact with one another during the late 17th century when Wendat refugees settled in Seneca towns. Evidence for this… read more
2011 Review of Raskin (2008): The Primer of Humor Research Prosody and Humor, Attardo, Salvatore, Manuela Maria Wagner and Eduardo Urios-Aparisi (eds.), pp. 357–365 | Review
2009 Consciousness and language Cognition and Pragmatics, Sandra, Dominiek, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 135–145 | Article
2005 The relation of grammar to thought The Dynamics of Language Use: Functional and contrastive perspectives, Butler, Christopher S., María de los Ángeles Gómez González and Susana M. Doval-Suárez (eds.), pp. 57–78 | Article
2004 Discourse effects of polysynthesis Discourse Across Languages and Cultures, Moder, Carol Lynn and Aida Martinovic-Zic (eds.), pp. 37–52 | Article
2002 Putting grammaticalization in its place New Reflections on Grammaticalization, Wischer, Ilse and Gabriele Diewald (eds.), pp. 395–412 | Article
2002 Searching for meaning in language: A memoir Historiographia Linguistica 29:1/2, pp. 245–261 | Miscellaneous
2000 Loci of diversity and convergence in thought and language Explorations in Linguistic Relativity, Pütz, Martin and Marjolijn H. Verspoor (eds.), pp. 101–124 | Article
2000 Florescence as a Force in Grammaticalization Reconstructing Grammar: Comparative Linguistics and Grammaticalization, Gildea, Spike (ed.), pp. 39–64 | Article
1999 Floyd Glenn Lounsbury, 1914–1998: A brief obituary Historiographia Linguistica 26:3, pp. 333–341 | Obituary
Floyd G. Lounsbury (1914–1998), one of the 20th century’s most influential anthropological linguistics, will be remembered especially for his contributions to three major areas of scholarship: Iroquoian linguistics, the analysis of kinship systems, and the decipherment of Mayan hieroglyphs. His… read more
1999 What are S, A, and O? Studies in Language 23:3, pp. 569–596 | Article
The letters S, A, and O have been used heuristically for distinguishing ergative-absolutive languages from nominative-accusative languages. This schema, however, has serious disadvantages for the understanding of individual grammars and even more for broad typological work, because it obscures the… read more
1998 How a Historical Linguist and a Native Speaker Understand a Complex Morphology Historical Linguistics 1997: Selected papers from the 13th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Düsseldorf, 10–17 August 1997, Schmid, Monika S., Jennifer R. Austin and Dieter Stein (eds.), pp. 101–116 | Article
1998 Things We Can Learn From Repeated Tellings of the Same Experience Narrative Inquiry 8:2, pp. 269–285 | Article
The study of repeated tellings of the same experience by the same speaker has been a neglected source of insights into the human mind. The content of the mind (here termed underlying experience) cannot be equated with any particular verbalization of it. Language, mental imagery, and emotions… read more
1997 Consciousness and language Handbook of Pragmatics: 1996 Installment, Verschueren, Jef, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Article
1997 Polyphonic Topic Development Conversation: Cognitive, communicative and social perspectives, Givón, T. (ed.), pp. 41–54 | Article
1996 How consciousness shapes language On Language and Consciousness, Jackendoff, Ray and Wallace Chafe, pp. 35–54 | Article
I begin by distinguishing constant properties of consciousness (a focus and periphery, constant movement, a point of view, and the need for background orientation) from variable properties (the different sources of conscious experience, immediacy vs. displacement, factuality vs. fictionality,… read more
1996 Inferring Identifiability and Accessibility Reference and Referent Accessibility, Fretheim, Thorstein and Jeanette K. Gundel (eds.), pp. 37–46 | Article
1996 Comments on Jackendoff, Nuyts, and Allwood On Language and Consciousness, Jackendoff, Ray and Wallace Chafe, pp. 181–196 | Reply
1995 The Realis-Irrealis Distinction in Caddo, the Northern Iroquoian Languages, and English Modality in Grammar and Discourse, Bybee, Joan L. and Suzanne Fleischman (eds.), pp. 349–366 | Article
1992 Information flow in speaking and writing The Linguistics of Literacy, Downing, Pamela A., Susan D. Lima and Michael Noonan (eds.), pp. 17–30 | Article
1992 The Flow of Ideas in a Sample of Written Language Discourse Description: Diverse linguistic analyses of a fund-raising text, Mann, William C. and Sandra A. Thompson (eds.), pp. 267–294 | Article
1988 Linking intonation units in spoken English Clause Combining in Grammar and Discourse, Haiman, John and Sandra A. Thompson (eds.), pp. 1–28 | Article
1987 Cognitive constraints on information flow Coherence and Grounding in Discourse: Outcome of a Symposium, Eugene, Oregon, June 1984, Tomlin, Russell S., pp. 21–51 | Article