Publications
Partington, Alan. 2011. “Double-speak” at the White House: A corpus-assisted study of bisociation in conversational laughter-talk. Humor 24 (4) : 371–398.
Partington, Alan. 2011. Phrasal irony: Its form, function and exploitation. Journal of Pragmatics 43 (6) : 1786–1800.
Partington, Alan. 2009. A linguistic account of wordplay: The lexical grammar of punning. Journal of Pragmatics 41 (9) : 1794–1809.
Partington, Alan. 2008. From Wodehouse to the White House: A Corpus-Assisted Study of Play, Fantasy and Dramatic Incongruity in Comic Writing and Laughter-Talk. Lodz Papers in Pragmatics 4 (2) : 189–213.