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Publication details [#66830]

Zappavigna, Michele and Lorenzo Logi. 2019. Dialogic resources in interactional humour. Journal of Pragmatics 153 : 1–14.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
affiliation | comedy | dialogue | humor | interaction | social semiotics | text
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
Journal WWW
www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This article proposes a social semiotic assay of a stand-up comedy text. Its goal is to examine how dialogic resources contribute to humour. The study is informed by the concept of affiliation in Systemic Functional Linguistic theory and work on interactional humour.