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Exploring the Sociopragmatics of Online Humor
Villy Tsakona
[Topics in Humor Research 12] 2024
► pp. 263–264

Subject index

A
  • aggression theory of humor,3, 14, 129, 161, 164
  • ambient affiliation,127, 130, 146–148
  • ambient humor,128
  • Analytical Focus,33–35, 40, 51–52, 64, 126, 149, 167–168, 225–226
  • antiracism,7, 103–104, 106–109, 112–114, 116, 119–120, 123–125
B
  • bonding,129, 147–149, 170, 193, 198, 202, 204
C
  • citizen sociolinguistics,43, 70–71, 82, 85–86, 90–94, 98–102
  • classical art memes,84, 173–176, 179–181, 183, 186, 191–193, 212, 218
  • communicative competence,71, 153
  • competence,1, 11, 13–14, 16, 27, 37, 41, 47, 50
  • contextualization cues,6, 17–19, 21–24, 28–29, 32, 34–36, 41, 45, 48, 52
  • coping,170, 172, 193, 198, 202, 212
  • corrective act,71, 90–91, 97–99, 101
  • counter-text,158
  • COVID-19 pandemic,8, 86–87, 92–93, 98, 151, 167–168, 176–177, 181, 183, 190–191, 216–219, 221–223
  • critical humor studies,106, 161
  • critical language awareness,154
  • critical literacy,8, 150–169, 173, 180, 214–215, 221–223
  • critical thinking,154–155
D
  • dark humor,170, 173
  • dialect,7, 34, 71, 74–86, 94–95, 123, 130
  • disaster humor,170, 173
  • Discourse Theory of Humor (DTH),11, 32–38, 40, 51–52, 224–226
  • discrimination,3, 7, 103–107, 112, 123–125, 155, 159–161
E
  • elitism,132, 172
  • ethical,24
  • ethnic humor,106
  • evaluation,3, 26–27, 33, 40–41, 43–44, 46, 48–49, 51, 66, 70–72, 86, 88, 90, 105, 126–130, 132–133, 138, 141, 146–148, 154, 166, 172, 177, 205, 210, 214–215, 217, 219, 224
F
  • fake news,110
G
  • General Theory of Verbal Humor (GTVH),13–15, 18, 21, 25–27, 32, 37
H
  • humor appreciation,27, 47–48, 51–52, 60
  • humor comprehension,47–48, 51–52
  • humor failure,5–6, 21, 30–31, 37, 39–40, 44, 47–52, 64
  • humor quality,49–50
  • humor recognition,47–48, 51–52
  • humor success,5–7, 30, 32, 39–40, 44–52, 64
  • humorous speech event,28–29, 32, 36
I
  • identity,13, 19–21, 24, 32, 34, 50, 70, 156, 213, 224
  • identity construction,7–8, 44, 63, 68, 126–130, 133, 138, 141, 146–149, 161
  • incongruity,3, 8, 11–12, 27, 33, 47, 129, 132, 169, 174–175, 222; (see also script opposition)
  • incongruity theory of humor,3, 9–10, 14, 129, 132, 164
  • interpretive consensus,128, 130
  • intertextual chain,7, 135, 147–148
  • intertextuality,7, 69–70, 110, 125–127, 131–133, 135, 147, 149, 174, 223
J
  • jab line,15, 34, 114–115, 120, 122
  • just kidding,105
K
  • knowledge about humor,6, 30–32, 45
L
  • language ideologies,44, 70
  • language teaching,151, 158
  • liquid racism,7, 104, 107–109, 113, 116, 120, 123–124
  • loanword,7, 67, 71, 86–101
  • loanword translation,7, 87, 90–91, 93–101
M
  • memory traces,69, 76, 91, 94, 97, 133
  • metapragmatic comment,40–41, 45–47, 51, 53–54, 58–67, 72, 82, 85–86, 102
  • metapragmatic indicators,6, 39–42, 44–45, 48, 53, 66, 102
  • metapragmatic meme,6–7, 67, 71–72, 76–77, 82, 85–86, 91, 96–97, 101
  • metapragmatic stereotype,25–26, 33, 43–46, 50–51, 62, 64–67, 70–72, 76, 81–82, 85–102, 221
  • metapragmatics,6, 40, 42–43, 46–47, 64–65
  • migrant,7, 109, 112–113, 116, 119–120, 123–124
N
  • news satire,110; (see also satirical news)
  • non-standard variety,67, 72, 86
O
  • offence,104, 106
P
  • performance,6, 11, 13, 25, 27–29, 32, 38, 43
  • phatic communion,21, 68
  • political humor,169, 217
  • punch line,15, 34, 114
R
  • racism,7, 103–109, 111–125, 155
  • racist humor,3, 106
  • recontextualization,174, 176–177, 179, 181, 183
  • refugee,111, 119–123
  • register humor,71–72, 86, 101, 174; (see also stylistic humor)
  • release theory of humor,3, 9, 105, 164
  • resistant reading,50–51, 62, 157, 160, 162, 221
S
  • satirical news,4, 7, 104, 109–125; (see also news satire)
  • script opposition,9, 12, 14–15, 22, 33–34, 37, 48–49, 103, 123, 132, 213–214; (see also incongruity)
  • Semantic Script Theory of Humor (SSTH),6, 10–11, 15, 32, 37
  • sociopragmatic function,7–8, 29, 44–45, 49, 63, 76, 85, 91, 99, 102, 113, 126, 131, 146–147, 149, 153, 161–162, 164, 166–168, 171, 173, 192–193, 202, 205, 211–212, 219, 225–226
  • sociopragmatics,1–2, 224
  • stylistic humor,15, 71, 140, 174, 176, 191, 216; (see also register humor)
  • superiority theory of humor,3, 9, 14, 105, 129, 161, 164
T
  • target of humor,3–4, 14–15, 18–19, 21–22, 31–32, 34, 36, 46, 49, 52
  • trivialization,109, 124, 220