Amadeu Viana

List of John Benjamins publications for which Amadeu Viana plays a role.

Articles

Canestrari, Carla and Amadeu Viana 2019 Dialogical strategies in replies to offensive humourLanguage and Dialogue 9:2, pp. 217–235 | Article
The aim of this paper is to determine whether humour can be used as a discursive strategy to reply to offensive humour about natural disasters and what purpose it serves. A corpus of 431 replies to the Charlie Hebdo cartoons concerning the earthquake in central Italy in August 2016 was analysed.… read more
Viana, Amadeu 2013 Humor and argumentation in everyday talkIrony and Humor: From pragmatics to discourse, Ruiz-Gurillo, Leonor and M. Belén Alvarado Ortega (eds.), pp. 219–242 | Article
This paper explores the relationship between humor and argumentation in everyday talk at three different levels: first, theoretically, by examining argumentation approaches in relationship to conversational humor; second, methodologically, by asking for the potential projection of the classical… read more