Metapragmatics of Humor: Current research trends
Edited by Leonor Ruiz-Gurillo
[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 14] 2016. vi, 301 pp.
Leonor Ruiz-Gurillo
List of John Benjamins publications for which Leonor Ruiz-Gurillo plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Discourse studies | Humor studies | Pragmatics
Irony and Humor: From pragmatics to discourse
Edited by Leonor Ruiz-Gurillo and M. Belén Alvarado Ortega
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 231] 2013. vi, 270 pp.
Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Humor studies | Pragmatics
Articles
2023 Humor negotiation in interactional sequences in Spanish The Pragmatics of Humour in Interactive Contexts, Linares Bernabéu, Esther (ed.), pp. 133–151 | Chapter
This paper reports on the analysis of humor negotiation in Spanish, using a database of 148 humorous sequences drawn from 67 colloquial conversations of the VALESCO.HUMOR corpus (accessible at www.observahumor.com; cf. Ruiz-Gurillo, 2021; 2022). To this end, three variables were addressed.… read more
2021 Marcas e indicadores humorísticos en las narraciones escritas de niños y niñas de 8, 10 y 12 años en español: Propuesta tipológica Humour in Spanish Context, Timofeeva-Timofeev, Larissa (ed.), pp. 83–112 | Article
Este trabajo presenta una propuesta tipológica de marcas e indicadores humorísticos (Ruiz-Gurillo 2012, 78–86) que actúan como soportes empíricos en la investigación en torno al humor verbal infantil. Nuestra clasificación se fundamenta en el análisis de 448 narraciones humorísticas, escritas… read more
2020 Evidentiality and humor in Spanish: About Buenafuente’s monologues Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 33:1, pp. 302–325 | Article
The aim of this paper is to shed light on the evidentiality functions used by the comedian Andreu Buenafuente during his monologues in Spanish (2007–2011). Firstly, some hypotheses are proposed: (1) genre may determine pragmatic evidentiality functions; (2) evidentials are integrated into a… read more
2016 Metapragmatics of humor: Variability, negotiability and adaptability in humorous monologues Metapragmatics of Humor: Current research trends, Ruiz-Gurillo, Leonor (ed.), pp. 79–101 | Article
The main aim of this paper is to propose a theoretical model for the study of humor as a metapragmatic ability, the so-called metapragmatics of humor (MH). After offering a short overview, humor will be analyzed from the conception of metapragmatics according to Verschueren (1999), (2000), (2009).… read more
2016 Exploring metapragmatics of humor Metapragmatics of Humor: Current research trends, Ruiz-Gurillo, Leonor (ed.), pp. 1–8 | Article
2015 Phraseology for humor in Spanish: Types, functions and discourses Spanish Phraseology: Varieties and variations, Mogorrón Huerta, Pedro and Xavier Blanco (eds.), pp. 191–212 | Article
The aim of this paper is to propose a phraseological approach to humor in Spanish. Phraseological units will be analyzed as markers or indicators in accordance with a revised General Theory of Verbal Humor (Ruiz-Gurillo, 2012, 2013). A marker is a linguistic element which helps to understand humor;… read more
2013 Narrative strategies inBuenafuente’shumorous monologues Irony and Humor: From pragmatics to discourse, Ruiz-Gurillo, Leonor and M. Belén Alvarado Ortega (eds.), pp. 107–140 | Article
This paper has as its aim to analyze the narrative strategies used by the comedian Andreu Buenafuente during his monologues in Spanish (2007-2011). The corpus comprises 203 monologues in paper from the books Sigo diciendo [I continue to say] (2009), Digo yo [So I say] (2010) and Hablar es gratis… read more
2013 The pragmatics of irony and humor Irony and Humor: From pragmatics to discourse, Ruiz-Gurillo, Leonor and M. Belén Alvarado Ortega (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Article
2008 Las metarrepresentaciones en el español hablado Spanish in Context 5:1, pp. 40–63 | Article
Este artículo se ocupa de diversos procedimientos de metarrepresentación en el español hablado: el discurso directo y la ironía. Se establecen diferencias entre diversas habilidades metarrepresentacionales, como el discurso directo, la metáfora o los evidenciales, por un lado, y la ironía, por… read more