Alexander Brock
List of John Benjamins publications for which Alexander Brock plays a role.
2024 Chapter 3. Format as the locus of negotiating media procedures: The case of a Zoom seminar session Media as Procedures of Communication, Luginbühl, Martin and Jan Georg Schneider (eds.), pp. 40–65 | Chapter
This article suggests a conceptual framework which can be used to trace the negotiation of media procedures. For this purpose, we extend a model of communication form (Brock and Schildhauer 2017) by incorporating the component format as the place where the use of medial affordances and genre… read more
2015 Participation frameworks and participation in televised sitcom, candid camera and stand-up comedy Participation in Public and Social Media Interactions, Dynel, Marta and Jan Chovanec (eds.), pp. 27–47 | Article
In order to reconstruct the participation frameworks of three TV comedy subgenres,
this article follows the common differentiation into the fictitious characters’
communication and the discourse between a comedy’s production crew
and the television audience. The TV viewer is conceptualised as the… read more
2012 Historical evidence of communicative maxims Investigations into the Meta-Communicative Lexicon of English: A contribution to historical pragmatics, Busse, Ulrich and Axel Hübler (eds.), pp. 271–288 | Article
2011 Chapter 14. Bumcivilian: Systemic aspects of humorous communication in comedies Telecinematic Discourse: Approaches to the language of films and television series, Piazza, Roberta, Monika Bednarek and Fabio Rossi (eds.), pp. 263–280 | Article
In television comedies, the system of the English language, defined here as a set of choices from conventionalised language elements (Halliday 1994: xxvi) is used to create humour. From this perspective, humorous communication first appears as a phenomenon of instantiation (Halliday and Matthiessen… read more