28.3034, Books: Taiwanese and Polish Humor: Lee Chen

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Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 12:41:56
From: Chris Humphrey [chumphrey at c-s-p.org]
Subject: Taiwanese and Polish Humor: Lee Chen

 


Title: Taiwanese and Polish Humor 
Subtitle: A Socio-Pragmatic Analysis 
Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
	   http://www.cambridgescholars.com/
	

Book URL: http://www.cambridgescholars.com/taiwanese-and-polish-humor 


Author: Li-Chi Lee Chen

Hardback: ISBN:  9781443891325 Pages: 252 Price: U.K. £ 61.99
Hardback: ISBN:  9781443891325 Pages: 252 Price: U.S. $ 105.95


Abstract:

Is there a specifically ‘Taiwanese’ or ‘Polish’ humor? Do people from Taiwan
and Poland share the same sense of humor? How is humor related to politics,
religion and the LGBT community? These questions represent the starting point
of investigation of this. Some of the central issues explored here include:
(1) how Taiwanese and Polish friends use various discourse strategies to
construct humor; and (2) how different types of humor are employed on
television variety shows to attract laughter. This book also provides an
explanation of the prevalence of wúlítóu ‘nonsense’ in the Taiwanese society
and how Polish ‘directness’ is reflected in humor. To understand how humor is
culturally shaped and how it contributes to a talk-in-interaction, the three
methodological approaches of conversation analysis, multimodal discourse
analysis and interactional linguistics are adopted and combined here. This
book will be of interest to both linguists and non-linguists who are
interested in the social and cultural construction of humor.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Pragmatics
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): Chinese, Min Nan (nan)
                     Polish (pol)


Written In: English  (eng)

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