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Recontextualizing Humor

Author : Villy Tsakona
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501511920
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)

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Book Synopsis Recontextualizing Humor by : Villy Tsakona

Download or read book Recontextualizing Humor written by Villy Tsakona and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-02-10 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humor may surface in numerous and diverse contexts, which at the same time determine how humor works, its form, and its functions and consequences for interlocutors. Adopting a sociolinguistic and discourse analytic perspective, this study is aligned with approaches to humor exploring the variety of humorous genres, the wide range of sociopragmatic functions of humor, and the more or less dissimilar perceptions speakers may have concerning what humor is, what it means, and how it works. The chapters of this book propose a new theoretical approach to the analysis of humor by bringing context into focus. Furthermore, the study explores how we can teach about humor within a critical literacy framework creating classroom space for everyday humorous texts that are part of students’ social realities, and simultaneously taking into account that humor may yield multiple, disparaging, and often conflicting interpretations. This book is intended to appeal to humor researchers from various disciplines (such as linguistics, media studies, cultural studies, literary studies, sociology, anthropology, folklore) as well as to professionals or researchers in education.

Interactional Humor

Author : Béatrice Priego-Valverde
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110983125
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Book Synopsis Interactional Humor by : Béatrice Priego-Valverde

Download or read book Interactional Humor written by Béatrice Priego-Valverde and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-12-04 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central question explored in this volume is: How is humor multimodally produced, perceived, responded to, and negotiated? To this end, it offers a panorama of linguistic research on multimodal and interactional humor, based on different theoretical frameworks, corpora, and methodologies. Humor is considered as an activity that is interactionally achieved, regardless of whether the interaction in which it is embedded is face-to-face, computer-mediated, with a human or a robot, oral or written. The aim is to analyze both the linguistic resources of the participants (such as their lexicon, prosody, gestures, gazes, or smiles) and the semiotic resources that social networks and instant messaging platforms offer them (such as memes, gifs, or emojis).

Transgressive Humor in Classrooms

Author : David E. Low
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040008771
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Book Synopsis Transgressive Humor in Classrooms by : David E. Low

Download or read book Transgressive Humor in Classrooms written by David E. Low and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-04-09 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this innovative book, David E. Low examines the multifaceted role of humor in critical literacy studies. Talking about how teachers and students negotiate understandings of humor and social critique vis-à-vis school-based critical literacy curriculums, the book co-examines teachers’ and students’ understandings of humor and critique in schools. Critical literacy centers discussions on power and social roles but often overlooks how students use transgressive humor as a means to interrogate power. Through examples of classroom interactions and anecdotes, Low analyzes the role of humor in classroom settings to uncover how humor interplays with critical inquiry, sensemaking, and nonsense-making. Articulated across the fields of literacy studies and humor studies, the book uses ethnographic data from three Central California high schools to establish linkages and dissonances between critical literacy education and adolescents’ joking practices. Adopting the dialectic of punching up and punching down as a conceptual framework, the book argues that developing more nuanced understandings of transgressive humor presents educators with opportunities to cultivate deeper critical literacy pedagogies and that doing so is a matter of social justice. Essential for scholars and students in literacy education, this book adds to the scholarship on critical literacy by exploring the subversive power of humor in the classroom.

The Multimodal Performance of Conversational Humor

Author : Elisa Gironzetti
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 902725785X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis The Multimodal Performance of Conversational Humor by : Elisa Gironzetti

Download or read book The Multimodal Performance of Conversational Humor written by Elisa Gironzetti and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2022-04-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the first monograph exploring the functions of visual cues in humor, advocating for the development of a non-linguocentric theory of humor performance. It analyzes a corpus of dyadic, face-to-face interactions in Spanish and English to study the relationship between humor, smiling, and gaze, and shows how, by focusing on these elements, it is possible to shed light on the “unsaid” of conversations. In the book, the humorous framing of an utterance is shown to be negotiated and co-constructed dialogically and multimodally, through changes and patterns of smiling synchronicity, smiling intensity, and eye movements. The study also analyzes the multimodal features of failed humor and proposes a new categorization from a dialogic perspective. Because of its interdisciplinary approach, which includes facial expression analysis and eye tracking, this book is relevant to humor researchers as well as scholars in social and behavioral sciences interested in multimodality and embodied cognition.

Humor 2.0

Author : Salvatore Attardo
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1839988576
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (399 download)

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Download or read book Humor 2.0 written by Salvatore Attardo and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book shows how humor has changed since the advent of the internet: new genres, new contexts, and new audiences. The book provides a guide to such phenomena as memes, video parodies, photobombing, and cringe humor. Included are also in-depth discussions of the humor in phenomena such as Dogecoin, the joke currency, and the use of humor by the alt-right. It also shows how the cognitive mechanisms of humor remain unchanged. Written by a well-known specialist in humor studies, the book is engaging and readable, but also based on extensive scholarship.

Humor in Pedagogy in Tertiary Education in the Age of COVID-19

Author : Philip Aka
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1666917303
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)

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Book Synopsis Humor in Pedagogy in Tertiary Education in the Age of COVID-19 by : Philip Aka

Download or read book Humor in Pedagogy in Tertiary Education in the Age of COVID-19 written by Philip Aka and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-07-11 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humor in Pedagogy in Tertiary Education in the Age of COVID-19 argues for the application of humor in tertiary institutions unfazed by the pandemic infections of COVID-19. The book is an innovative and less contentious contribution to the debates on educational reforms in postwar Bosnia.

The Pragmatics of Humour in Interactive Contexts

Author : Esther Linares Bernabéu
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 902724975X
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis The Pragmatics of Humour in Interactive Contexts by : Esther Linares Bernabéu

Download or read book The Pragmatics of Humour in Interactive Contexts written by Esther Linares Bernabéu and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2023-05-15 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent years have seen a burgeoning interest in interactional humour from social and pragmatic perspectives, with fascinating results. Released more than a decade later than Norrick and Chiaro (2009) Humor in Interaction, The Pragmatics of Humour in Interactive Contexts gathers some of the most recent work on humour in interaction, with contributions taking (meta)pragmatic approaches to the analysis of various genres of interactive humour in both online and offline settings. This volume illustrates that a range of methodologies and perspectives can be applied to the study of such a complex phenomenon. These include analyses with a cognitive orientation and with multimodal approaches, work based on Relevance Theory, the General Theory of Verbal Humour, and Conversation Analysis, among others. In addition, all the authors represented here are recognised experts on the subject, and in most cases, are leading specialists in their respective fields. The book can be of use not only to scholars who study the linguistics of humour in interaction but also to students who wish to pursue research in the area.

Handbook of Pragmatics

Author : Jan-Ola Östman
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027260419
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Handbook of Pragmatics by : Jan-Ola Östman

Download or read book Handbook of Pragmatics written by Jan-Ola Östman and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2020-11-20 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access – for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent interests in the use and functioning of language – to the different topics, traditions and methods which together make up the field of pragmatics, broadly conceived as the cognitive, social and cultural study of language and communication, i.e. the science of language use. The Handbook of Pragmatics is a unique reference work for researchers, which has been expanded and updated continuously with annual installments since 1995. Also available as Online Resource: benjamins.com/online/hop/

Humour Theory and Stylistic Enquiry

Author : Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031403878
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (314 download)

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Book Synopsis Humour Theory and Stylistic Enquiry by : Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju

Download or read book Humour Theory and Stylistic Enquiry written by Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2024-01-29 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited book brings together scholarly chapters on linguistic aspects of humour in literary and non-literary domains and contexts in different parts of the world. Previous scholarly engagements and theoretical postulations on humour and the comic provide veritable resources for reexamining the relationship between linguistic elements and comic sensations on the one hand, and the validity of interpretive humour stylistics on the other hand. Renowned Stylistics scholars, such as Michael Toolan, who writes the volume’s foreword against the backdrop of nearly four decades of scholarly engagement with stylistics, and Katie Wales, who in this volume engages with Charles Dickens, one of the most eminent satirists in English literature, as well as many other European and African authors who have worked ceaselessly in the area of humour and language, weigh in on the topic of language and humour in this volume. Together, they provide a variety of interesting perspectives on the topic, deploying different textual sources from different media and from different regions of the world. Part of the book’s offering includes integrative stylistic approaches to humour in African, European and American written texts, examinations of social media and political humour in Nigeria, Cameroon and Zimbabwe, pragmatics and humorous stance-taking, incongruity as comedy in works of fiction, and a unified levels of linguistic analysis approach to the investigation of humour. This book will be of interest to academics and students of Linguistics, Stylistics, Communications and Media Studies, and Humour Studies. Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju is a Professor in the Department of English at the University of Ilorin in Nigeria

The Linguistics of Humor

Author : Salvatore Attardo
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192508784
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book The Linguistics of Humor written by Salvatore Attardo and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-25 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comprehensive and systematic introduction to the linguistics of humor. Salvatore Attardo takes a broad approach to the topic, exploring not only theoretical linguistic analyses, but also pragmatic and semantic aspects, conversation and discourse analysis, ethnomethodology, and interactionist and variationist sociolinguistics. The volume begins with chapters that introduce the terminology and conceptual and methodological apparatus, as well as outlining the major theories in the field and examining incongruity and resolution and the semiotics of humor. The second part of the book explores humor competence, with chapters that cover semantic and pragmatic topics, the General Theory of Verbal Humor, and puns and their interpretation. The third part provides an in-depth discussion of the applied linguistics of humor, and examines social context, discourse and conversation analysis, and sociolinguistic aspects. In the final part of the book, the discussion is extended beyond the central field of linguistics, with chapters discussing humor in literature, in translation, and in the classroom. The volume brings together the multiple strands of current knowledge about humor and linguistics, both theoretical and applied; it assumes no prior background in humor studies, and will be a valuable resource for students from advanced undergraduate level upwards, particularly those coming to linguistics from related disciplines.

Exploring the Ambivalence of Liquid Racism

Author : Argiris Archakis
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027247234
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Exploring the Ambivalence of Liquid Racism by : Argiris Archakis

Download or read book Exploring the Ambivalence of Liquid Racism written by Argiris Archakis and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2024-02-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ongoing migration ‘crisis’ in European countries (2015 to date) has fostered different stances and practices within European nation-states, ranging from xenophobia to solidarity. In this context, two contradictory discourses seem to coexist: the national racist discourse and the humanitarian, antiracist one. This volume brings together studies investigating diverse semiotic strategies through which liquid racism emerges, which consists of ambiguities and contradictory interpretations due to the fact that racist views infiltrate discourse intended as antiracist. The volume includes critical and pragmatic analyses of texts coming from various sources, such as news articles, parliamentary discourse, political cartoons, video clips, advertising campaigns based on personal stories, and jokes. It is an outcome of the research project “TRACE: Tracing Racism in Anti-raCist discoursE: A critical approach to European public speech on the migrant and refugee crisis” (HFRI-FM17-42, HFRI 2019-2022, Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation).

Transmedial Perspectives on Humour and Translation

Author : Loukia Kostopoulou
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003826733
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Transmedial Perspectives on Humour and Translation written by Loukia Kostopoulou and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative collection spotlights the role of media crossovers in humour translation and how the latter is conveyed through new means of communication. The volume offers an in-depth exploration of the entanglements of film, theatre, literature, TV, the Internet, etc., within the framework of transmediality and their influence on the practice of translating humour. Chapters focus on the complex web of interrelationships shaped by and shaping the process(es) of transformation and adaptation that take place across media and across languages and cultures. Situating translation practices and innovations within an interdisciplinary context, the volume underscores the hybrid nature and complex semiotics of humour and the plurality of possibilities for new insights that contemporary approaches offer driven by technological advancements in the industry. The book will be of particular interest to scholars and researchers in the fields of Translation Studies, Humour Studies, Audiovisual Translation, Media Studies, and Adaptation Studies.

Recontextualizing Humor

Author : Villy Tsakona
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501511521
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)

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Book Synopsis Recontextualizing Humor by : Villy Tsakona

Download or read book Recontextualizing Humor written by Villy Tsakona and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-02-10 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humor may surface in numerous and diverse contexts, which at the same time determine how humor works, its form, and its functions and consequences for interlocutors. Adopting a sociolinguistic and discourse analytic perspective, this study is aligned with approaches to humor exploring the variety of humorous genres, the wide range of sociopragmatic functions of humor, and the more or less dissimilar perceptions speakers may have concerning what humor is, what it means, and how it works. The chapters of this book propose a new theoretical approach to the analysis of humor by bringing context into focus. Furthermore, the study explores how we can teach about humor within a critical literacy framework creating classroom space for everyday humorous texts that are part of students’ social realities, and simultaneously taking into account that humor may yield multiple, disparaging, and often conflicting interpretations. This book is intended to appeal to humor researchers from various disciplines (such as linguistics, media studies, cultural studies, literary studies, sociology, anthropology, folklore) as well as to professionals or researchers in education.

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Humor

Author : Salvatore Attardo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131755115X
Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Language and Humor written by Salvatore Attardo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Language and Humor presents the first ever comprehensive, in-depth treatment of all the sub-fields of the linguistics of humor, broadly conceived as the intersection of the study of language and humor. The reader will find a thorough historical, terminological, and theoretical introduction to the field, as well as detailed treatments of the various approaches to language and humor. Deliberately comprehensive and wide-ranging, the handbook includes chapter-long treatments on the traditional topics covered by language and humor (e.g., teasing, laughter, irony, psycholinguistics, discourse analysis, the major linguistic theories of humor, translation) but also cutting-edge treatments of internet humor, cognitive linguistics, relevance theoretic, and corpus-assisted models of language and humor. Some chapters, such as the variationist sociolinguistcs, stylistics, and politeness are the first-ever syntheses of that particular subfield. Clusters of related chapters, such as conversation analysis, discourse analysis and corpus-assisted analysis allow multiple perspectives on complex trans-disciplinary phenomena. This handbook is an indispensable reference work for all researchers interested in the interplay of language and humor, within linguistics, broadly conceived, but also in neighboring disciplines such as literary studies, psychology, sociology, anthropology, etc. The authors are among the most distinguished scholars in their fields.

Recontextualized Knowledge

Author : Olaf Kramer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110676311
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Recontextualized Knowledge written by Olaf Kramer and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-11-23 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recontextualized Knowledge aims to analyze the communicative situations involved in the popularization of scientific knowledge: their settings, audiences, and the adaptive process of recontextualization in science communication. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this publication brings together essays from rhetoric, linguistics, and psychology as well as political and education sciences to serve as an in-depth exploration of today's communicative situations in science communication.

The Untold Help of Harmful Visual Jokes

Author : Mary Gregg
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031399811
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (313 download)

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Download or read book The Untold Help of Harmful Visual Jokes written by Mary Gregg and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that when visual jokes are harmful, they harm in a specific way: a subject’s personhood is revoked in a way that differs both in kind and degree depending on whether that person is depicted or described. Such revocation can occur in every role and any stage within the joke’s context, from character to audience member, from moment of depiction to uncritical exposure. Unlike a mere unhumorous insult, which doesn’t require the sympathy of its audience but can operate solely between the target and the bully, a joke requires a particular kind of response from its audience to complete itself—to “deliver”, which requires not only some degree of complicity from audience members, but a complicity earned at the expense of the joke’s referent. This book shows how we need not prevent the occurrence of these things in order to undermine their oppressive power—we only need the right kind of recontextualization: turning those utterances into jokes or turning those jokes against themselves. Unlike other forms of visual oppression, the harms contained within visual jokes can be reconfigured to affirm those they were created to harm, changing their function from jokes which attack others to jokes which attack themselves, empowering those they were created to target by calling into question the problematic conceptions of audiences who are sympathetic to the harmful joke’s initial formulation.

De-/Re-Contextualizing Conference Interpreting

Author : Ebru Diriker
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027295352
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis De-/Re-Contextualizing Conference Interpreting by : Ebru Diriker

Download or read book De-/Re-Contextualizing Conference Interpreting written by Ebru Diriker and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2004-08-26 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking study explores Simultaneous Conference Interpreting (SI) by focusing on interpreters as professionals working in socio-cultural contexts and on the interdependency between these contexts and actual SI behavior. While previous research on SI has been dominated by cognitive and psycholinguistic approaches, Diriker’s work explores SI in relation to the broader and more immediate socio-cultural contexts by investigating the representation of the profession(al) in the meta-discourse and by exploring the presence of interpreters and the nature of the interpreted utterance at an actual conference. Making use of participant observations, interviews and analysis of conference transcripts, Diriker challenges some of the widely held assumptions about SI. She suggests that the interpreter’s delivery represents not only the speaker but a multiplicity of speaker-positions, and that this multiplicity may well be a source of tension or vulnerability, as well as strength, for interpreters. Her analysis also highlights how interpreters negotiate meaning in SI, and underscores the need for more concerted efforts to explore SI in authentic contexts.