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Ruiz-Gurillo, Leonor, ed. 2016. Metapragmatics of Humor. Current research trends. (IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature 14). John Benjamins. vi, 301 pp.
Publication type
Book – edited volume
Publication language
English

Annotation

This volume contributes to a new area in the pragmatics of humor: its conception as a metapragmatic ability. It collects thirteen chapters organized into three parts: Revisions and applications of General Theory of Verbal Humor (GTVH) in a metapragmatic context; Metapragmatic awareness of humor across textual modes; and Metapragmatic practices within the acquisition of humor. It thus provides an up-to-date panorama of this field, where metapragmatic abilities are described in adults as well as in children, on humorous and non-humorous genres — jokes, cartoons, humorous monologues, parodies, conversation, Twitter —, and using several approaches, such as GTVH, multimodality, conversational analysis, eye-tracking methodology, etc.