Conversational Humour and (Im)politeness
A pragmatic analysis of social interaction
| The University of Queensland
Conversational Humour and (Im)politeness is the first systematic study that offers a socio-pragmatic perspective on humorous practices such as teasing, mockery and taking the piss and their relation to (im)politeness. Analysing data from corpora, reality television and interviews in Australian and British cultural contexts, this book contributes to cross-cultural and intercultural research on humour and its role in social interaction. Although, in both contexts, jocular verbal practices are highly valued and a positive response – the ‘preferred reaction’ – can be expected, the conceptualisation of what is seen as humorous can vary, especially in terms of what ‘goes too far’. By examining how attempts at humour can occasion offence, presenting a distinction between ‘frontstage’ and ‘backstage’ perceptions of jocularity and looking at how language users evaluate jocular behaviours in interaction, this study shows how humour and (im)politeness are co-constructed and negotiated in discourse. This book will be of interest to scholars and students in pragmatics, conversational humour, (im)politeness, intercultural communication, discourse analysis, television studies and interaction in English-speaking contexts.
[Topics in Humor Research, 8] 2019. xi, 274 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Acknowledgements
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xi
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Chapter 1. Introduction
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2–9
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Chapter 2. Meanwhile in the world of (im)politeness
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12–29
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Chapter 3. Data: From corpora to reality television to interviews
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32–60
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Chapter 4. Conversational humour: Jocular verbal behaviours
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62–89
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Chapter 5. Jocular verbal behaviours in Australian and British cultural contexts
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92–123
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Chapter 6. Frontstage and backstage reactions to jocularity
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126–148
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Chapter 7. Negative evaluations of jocularity
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150–171
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Chapter 8. Interviewees’ attitudes to jocularity
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174–243
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Chapter 9. Conclusions
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246–249
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References
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251–272
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Subject index
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273
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“There are far too many studies that talk the talk (blind us with yet more theoretical notions and terms) without walking the walk (doing the necessary empirical footwork). This study, couched in lucid prose, brilliantly does both. Focusing on humour in interactions, it eclectically combines theory from (im)politeness and humour research, and drives it all robustly forward with data from corpora, reality television discourse and qualitative interviewing. Trailblazing, to say the least!”
Jonathan Culpeper, Lancaster University
“This book offers fascinating insights into British and Australian jocular practices based on interviews and the discourse of reality television shows, an excellent source of publically available natural language data. I highly recommend Valeria Sinkeviciute’s work to everybody interested in cross-cultural and inter-cultural studies on conversational humour and (im)politeness.”
Marta Dynel, University of Lodz
“In this thoroughly empirical study of phenomena at the crossroads of humor and politeness, Valeria Sinkeviciute shows how interpretations of verbal behavior can go in different directions, even at the same time, and for the same participants, at different levels of publicness. Her work makes it impossible for pragmaticians to avoid thinking about meaning in terms of meaning potential.”
Jef Verschueren, University of Antwerp
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BIC Subject: CFG – Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
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