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The Dynamics of Interactional Humor: Creating and negotiating humor in everyday encountersEdited by Villy Tsakona and Jan Chovanec
[Topics in Humor Research 7] 2018
► pp. 229–256
Chapter 10Online joint fictionalization
Villy Tsakona | Democritus University of Thrace
Genres are dynamic discoursal structures which are frequently subject to change so as to adapt to speakers’ new communicative goals and exigencies. The present paper explores the particularities of a quite recent genre of humor, online joint fictionalization, which seems to have emerged from oral joint fictionalization involving the collaborative construction of humorous fictional scenarios in informal face-to-face interactions among peers. The present case study reveals significant similarities between the new digital genre and the initial oral one. Furthermore, it appears that the new genre incorporates other humorous genres such as memes, which are typical of online communication and, in this new context, contribute to the construction of the fictional scenario at hand.
Keywords: humor, joint fictionalization, genre, online interaction, Facebook, fictional scenarios, meme, status update, online networks
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Joint fictionalization as a humorous genre
- 3.Humor in online contexts
- 4.The data of the study
- 5.The analysis of the data
- 5.1The structure of online joint fictionalization
- 5.2Constructing Sifis the Cretan crocodile and his story
- 6.Discussion and conclusions
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Acknowledgements -
Notes -
Primary sources -
References
Published online: 05 January 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/thr.7.10tsa
https://doi.org/10.1075/thr.7.10tsa
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