Amadeu Viana
List of John Benjamins publications for which Amadeu Viana plays a role.
2019 Dialogical strategies in replies to offensive humour Language 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
2016 Review of Janicki ((2015)): Language and Conflict: Selected Issues Dementia-compromised language conflict and aggression, Davis, Boyd (ed.), pp. 141–147 | Review
2013 Humor and argumentation in everyday talk Irony 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
2002 Review of Norrick (2000): Conversational Narrative: Storytelling in Everyday Talk Narrative Inquiry 12:2, pp. 477–484 | Review