CFP: Linguistic Approaches to Funniness, Amusement and Laughter

[Francis Hult]

http://ia.uni.lodz.pl/pragmatics/events/lafal

 

LAFAL 

Linguistic Approaches to Funniness, Amusement and Laughter

1st International Symposium

 

24-26 March 2010

University of Lódz, Poland

 

Organised by

Department of Pragmatics 
Prof. Piotr Cap (Head)

 

Honorary Committee

Prof. Delia Chiaro 
Prof. Giovannantonio Forabosco
Prof. Rachel Giora
Prof. Neal Norrick
Prof. Graeme Ritchie
Prof. Paul Simpson

 

Organising Committee

Dr Marta Dynel (Conference Chair)
Dr Monika Kopytowska

 

Plenary Speakers

Prof. Delia Chiaro, University of Bologna
Prof. Rachel Giora, Tel Aviv University
Prof. Graeme Ritchie, University of Aberdeen 
Prof. Paul Simpson, Queen's University, Belfast

 

Description and scope

Humour, inherently associated with funniness, amusement and laugher, has attracted scholarly interest for centuries. Over the past three decades, humour studies have been developing at full tilt, with innumerable insightful publications released each year.

The conference is convened to provide a forum for linguists interested in the area of humour research. The primary objectives will be to explore the nature of multifarious humorous phenomena and to enhance methodological tools used in humour studies across a variety of linguistic disciplines.

More specifically, we invite papers addressing all manner of manifestations of humour, funniness, amusement, and laughter, such as:
* canned jokes
* one-liners
* witticisms
* anecdotes
* teasing
* banter
* wordplay
* rhetorical figures, e.g. humorous irony or humorous metaphors
* parody 
* satire
* laughter in discourse
* non-verbal humour

derived from any of the whole gamut of discourses, such as:
* everyday interactions 
* film dialogues 
* TV programmes
* stand-up comedy
* advertising
* politics
* the Internet
* literature
* newspapers and magazines

and analysed within any of the infinite range of theoretical frameworks subscribing to linguistic disciplines, such as:
* pragmatics 
* semantics
* discourse analysis
* translation
* sociolinguistics
* neurolinguistics
* psycholinguistics
* philosophy of language
* computational linguistics.


Abstract submission

The conference language is English and each presentation slot is 20 minutes followed by a 10-minute discussion. For each submission, please provide:
* name, title, affiliation, email address
* title of paper
* abstract (200-300 words)

Please send abstracts as email attachments to: marta.dynel at yahoo.com

Submission Deadline: 1st November 2009

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