Humorous discourse / / edited by Wladyslaw Chlopicki, Dorota Brzozowska

• Pubblicazione: Mouton, [Louisiana] : , : De Gruyter, , 2017; ©2017
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (230 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 306.44
• Soggetto topico: Sociolinguistics; Cognitive grammar
• Soggetto non controllato: Cognitive Linguistics; Humor Studies; Sociolinguistics
• Persona (resp. second.): BrzozowskaDorota; ChłopickiWładysław
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- A foreword on humorous discourse -- Humor theory: What is and what is not -- Metonymy in humour -- Conceptual integration and humor -- The dynamics of humour -- The GTVH and humorous discourse -- Metapragmatic markers of the bona fide and non-bona fide modes of communication -- Wordplay and football: Humour in the discourse of written sports reporting -- Audience affiliation, membership categories, and the construction of humor in stand-up comedy -- Humor research and humor reception: Far away, so close -- Ontological Semantic Theory of Humor in a context of humorous discourse -- Notes on the contributors -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book attempts to discuss selected but thorny issues of humor research that form the major stumbling blocks as well as challenges in humor studies at large and thus merit insightful discussion. Any discourse is action, so the text-creation process is always set in a non-verbal context, built of a social and communicative situation, and against the background of relevant culture. On the other hand, humor scholars claim that humorous discourse has its special, essential features that distinguish it from other discourses. The pragmatic solution to the issue of potential circularity of humor defined in terms of discourse and discourse in terms of humor seems only feasible, and thus there is a need to discuss the structure and mechanisms of humorous texts and humorous performances. The chapters in the present volume, contributed by leading scholars in the field of humor studies, address the issues from various theoretical perspectives, from contextual semantics through General Theory of Verbal Humor, cognitive linguistics, discourse studies, sociolinguistics, to Ontological Semantic Theory of Humor, providing an excellent overview of the field to novices and experts alike.
• Titolo autorizzato: Humorous discourse
• ISBN: 1-5015-0705-2; 1-5015-0710-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910806267103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Humor research ; ; Volume 11.