Chris Venour
List of John Benjamins publications for which Chris Venour plays a role.
Article
2011 Dimensions of incongruity in register humour The Pragmatics of Humour across Discourse Domains, Dynel, Marta (ed.), pp. 125–144 | Article
Register-based humour consists of texts in which most of the language is in a particular style or tone, except for one or two words which are radically different in tone (or register) from the rest. It is not initially clear how to define register formally in terms of constructs, such as… read more