(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Jul-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027214942)
This monograph explores the diverse sociopragmatic functions and meanings of humorous discourse in various online contexts affecting its use. To this end, an analytical model is proposed which takes into consideration the aspects of context which ar...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-Oct-2022, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027211538)
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,...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-Oct-2022, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027211613)
This volume has been conceived to explore an important aspect of human existence: humour in self-translation, a virtually unexplored area of research in both Humour Studies and Translation Studies. A variety of international scholars has contributed...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Jun-2020, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027205599)
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 the...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Oct-2019, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027204134)
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 corpo...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Jan-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027200006)
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...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Jun-2017, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027202338)
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...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-May-2017, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027202321)
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 i...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Mar-2016, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027202314)
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...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Oct-2015, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027202291)
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 cultu...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Oct-2015, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027202307)
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 ironi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2013, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027202284)
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...Loe edasi...
