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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 gives a state-of-the-art picture of current directions in pragmatic humour studies. The contributors assume multifarious theoretical perspectives and discuss a wide array of issues germane to different types of humour across discourse domains. Consequently, the whole gamut of humorous forms and mechanisms are elucidated, such as surrealist irony, incongruity in register humour, mechanisms of pun formation, as well as interpersonal functions of conversational humour. In addition, the papers address diversified manifestations of humour, such as puns in Shakespeare’s plays, gendered jokes on the Internet, sexuality in anti-proverbs, Woody Allen’s prose, humour in “Friends”, and parody by Monty Python’s Flying Circus. Most importantly, the chapters offer new research findings and advocate novel theoretical conceptualisations of humorous phenomena, drawing on the wealth of existing scholarship. Therefore, the volume is bound to serve as a well of knowledge and inspiration for both seasoned and beginning researchers with interests in the pragmatics of humour.
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The Pragmatics of Humour across Discourse Domains Pragmatics & Beyond New Series (P&BNS) Pragmatics & Beyond New Series is a continuation of Pragmatics & Beyond and its Companion Series. The New Series offers a selection of high quality work covering the full richness of Pragmatics as an interdisciplinary field, within language sciences. For an overview of all books published in this series, please see http://benjamins.com/catalog/pbns Editor Associate Editor Anita Fetzer Andreas H. Jucker University of Würzburg University of Zurich Founding Editors Jacob L. Mey Herman Parret University of Southern Denmark Belgian National Science Foundation, Universities of Louvain and Antwerp Jef Verschueren Belgian National Science Foundation, University of Antwerp Editorial Board Robyn Carston Sachiko Ide Deborah Schiffrin Thorstein Fretheim Kuniyoshi Kataoka University of Trondheim Aichi University Paul Osamu Takahara John C. Heritage Miriam A. Locher University College London Japan Women’s University University of California at Los Angeles Universität Basel Susan C. Herring Indiana University Masako K. Hiraga St. Paul’s (Rikkyo) University Georgetown University Kobe City University of Foreign Studies Sandra A. Thompson Sophia S.A. Marmaridou University of Athens University of California at Santa Barbara Srikant Sarangi Teun A. van Dijk Cardiff University Marina Sbisà University of Trieste Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona Yunxia Zhu The University of Queensland Volume 210 The Pragmatics of Humour across Discourse Domains Edited by Marta Dynel The Pragmatics of Humour across Discourse Domains Edited by Marta Dynel University of Lodz John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam / Philadelphia 8 TM The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences – Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ansi z39.48-1984. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The pragmatics of humour across discourse domains / edited by Marta Dynel. p. cm. (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, issn 0922-842X ; v. 210) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Humor. 2. Language and languages. 3. Pragmatics. I. Dynel, Ma