31.1188, Books: Recontextualizing Humor: Tsakona

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Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2020 21:37:30
From: Asja Kusnezowa [Asja.Kusnezowa at degruyter.com]
Subject: Recontextualizing Humor: Tsakona

 


Title: Recontextualizing Humor 
Subtitle: Rethinking the Analysis and Teaching of Humor 
Series Title: Language Play and Creativity  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   http://www.degruyter.com/mouton
	

Book URL: https://bit.ly/39Dkc3t 


Author: Villy Tsakona

Hardback: ISBN:  9781501517488 Pages: 229 Price: U.S. $ 114.99


Abstract:

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.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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