Conference selection

ISHS 2023

Boston, July 3-7, 2023

John Benjamins will be present at ISHS 2023. Check out our promotional material and discount order form through the links below. Or come and browse our books at the exhibit. If you wish to talk about our books, your work, and possible publishing projects please get in touch with Ymke Verploegen at ymke.verploegen at benjamins.nl.

Check out our selection of top titles for this conference!


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Conversational Humour and (Im)politeness

A pragmatic analysis of social interaction

Valeria Sinkeviciute

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... full description
October 2019. xi, 274 pp.
THR 1
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Developments in Linguistic Humour Theory

Edited by Marta Dynel

This volume presents recent developments in the linguistics of humour. It depicts new theoretical proposals for capturing different humorous forms and phenomena central to humour research, thereby extending its scope. The 15 contributions critically survey and develop the existing interpretative models, or they... full description
October 2013. xiv, 425 pp.
THR 7
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The Dynamics of Interactional Humor

Creating and negotiating humor in everyday encounters

Edited by Villy Tsakona and Jan Chovanec

This book deals with the construction of diverse forms of humor in everyday oral, written, and mediatized interactions. It sheds light on the differences and, most importantly, the similarities in the production of interactional humor in face-to-face and various technology-mediated forms of communication, including... full description
January 2018. vi, 316 pp.
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Humor in Interaction

Edited by Neal R. Norrick and Delia Chiaro

This is the first edited volume dedicated specifically to humor in interaction. It is a rich collection of essays by an international array of scholars representing various theoretical perspectives, but all concerned with interactional aspects of humor. The contributors are scholars active both in the... full description
July 2009. xvii, 238 pp.
THR 4
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Humour and Relevance

Francisco Yus

This book offers a cognitive-pragmatic, and specifically relevance-theoretic, analysis of different types of humorous discourse, together with the inferential strategies that are at work in the processing of such discourses. The book also provides a cognitive pragmatics description of how addressees obtain humorous... full description
March 2016. xix, 367 pp.
THR 11
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Humour in Self-Translation

Edited by Margherita Dore

This book explores an important aspect of human existence: humor in self-translation, a virtually unexplored area of research in Humour Studies and Translation Studies. Of the select group of international scholars contributing to this volume some examine literary texts from different perspectives (sociological,... full description
October 2022. xi, 278 pp.
THR 10
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Humour in the Beginning

Religion, humour and laughter in formative stages of Christianity, Islam, Buddhism and Judaism

Edited by Roald Dijkstra and Paul van der Velde

Humour in the Beginning presents a multidisciplinary collection of fourteen in-depth case-studies on the role of humour – both benign and blasphemous, elitist and ordinary, orthodox and heterodox – in early, formative stages of Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism and (late-antique) Judaism. Its coherence is... full description
October 2022. xii, 306 pp.
THR 5
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Iranian Political Satirists

Experience and motivation in the contemporary era

Mahmud Farjami

This volume surveys political satire as a journalistic genre in Iran since the latter days of the Qajar dynasty to the present, thus spanning one century and more. It is an important resource, but it also provides an analysis. Moreover, this volume is a rare effort to answer a question that looks simple but is very... full description
May 2017. x, 213 pp.
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Made-in-Canada Humour

Literary, folk and popular culture

Beverly J. Rasporich

Made-in-Canada-Humour is an interdisciplinary survey and analysis of Canadian humour and humorists in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The book focuses on a variety of genres. It includes celebrated Canadian writers and poets with ironic and satiric perspectives; oral storytellers of tall tales in the country... full description
October 2015. xxi, 300 pp.
THR 9
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Playing with Mental Models

Humour in the BBC comedy series The Office

Henri de Jongste

In this book, the author uses a mental-model theory of communication to investigate the acclaimed British situation comedy The Office. The approach taken is multi-disciplinary, and focuses on questions as:What are mental models and what role do they play in communication in general, and in creating and watching The... full description
June 2020. xv, 301 pp.
THR 2
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The Power of Satire

Edited by Marijke Meijer Drees and Sonja de Leeuw

Satire is clearly one of today’s most controversial socio-cultural topics. In this edited volume, The Power of Satire, it is studied for the first time as a dynamic, discursive mode of performance with the power of crossing and contesting cultural boundaries. The collected essays reflect the fundamental shift from... full description
October 2015. xiii, 277 pp.
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Satire, Humor and the Construction of Identities

Massih Zekavat

Satire, Humor and the Construction of Identities conveys how satire can contribute to the construction of social subjects’ identities. It attempts to provide a theoretical ground for a novel understanding of the relationship between satire and identity by finding their common denominator, namely opposition, in order... full description
June 2017. vii, 210 pp.