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Language: en
Pages: 389
Authors: Marta Dynel
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

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Brings together a range of contributions on the linguistics of humour. This title elucidates the whole gamut of humorous forms and mechanisms, such as surrealis
The Pragmatics of Humour across Discourse Domains
Language: en
Pages: 382
Authors: Marta Dynel
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-07-13 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

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This edited volume brings together a range of contributions solely on the linguistics of humour. Rather than favour one approach, this collection of articles gi
Humour and Relevance
Language: en
Pages: 367
Authors: Francisco Yus
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-03-18 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

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This book offers a cognitive-pragmatic, and specifically relevance-theoretic, analysis of different types of humorous discourse, together with the inferential s
The Pragmatics of Humour in Interactive Contexts
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-05-15 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Recent years have seen a burgeoning interest in interactional humour from social and pragmatic perspectives, with fascinating results. Released more than a deca
Humorous Discourse
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Authors: Wladyslaw Chlopicki
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-10-23 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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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