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<DIV><FONT face=Calibri>Dear all,</DIV>
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<P>Here is information on a new publication of mine. I was wondering if you
could forward the information on this book to the members of your Department
and/or order the book for your university library... I'd be grateful...</P>
<P>Thanks in advance</P>
<P>Regards,</P>
<P>Francisco Yus</P>
<P>Title: Humour and Relevance<BR>Publisher: John Benjamins<BR>Author: Francisco
Yus<BR>ISBN 9789027202314<BR>Year: 2016<BR>Official url:
https://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/thr.4/main</P>
<P>Contents and introduction available
here:<BR>http://personal.ua.es/francisco.yus/HR.pdf</P>
<P>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 cognitive pragmatics description of how addressees obtain humorous
effects. Although the inferences at work in the processing of normal,
non-humorous discourses are the same as those employed in the interpretation of
humour, in the latter case these strategies (and also the accessibility of
contextual information) are predicted and manipulated by the speaker (or writer)
for the sake of generating humorous effects. The book covers aspects of research
on humour such as the incongruity-resolution pattern, jokes and stand-up comedy
performances. It also offers an explanation of why ironies are sometimes
labelled as humorous, and proposes a model for the translation of humorous
discourses, an analysis of humour in multimodal discourses such as cartoons and
advertisements, and a brief exploration of possible tendencies in
relevance-theoretic research on conversational humour.</P>
<P>Dr. Francisco Yus<BR>Universidad de Alicante<BR>Departamento de Filología
Inglesa<BR>Apartado 99<BR>E-03080 Alicante (Espa a)</P>
<P>https://sites.google.com/site/franciscoyus</P></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>