31.2295, Books: Understanding Conversational Joking: Thielemann

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Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2020 22:14:17
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Understanding Conversational Joking: Thielemann

 


Title: Understanding Conversational Joking 
Subtitle: A cognitive-pragmatic study based on Russian interactions 
Series Title: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 310  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/pbns.310 


Author: Nadine Thielemann

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027260925 Pages: 287 Price: U.S. $ 143.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027260925 Pages: 287 Price: U.K. £ 80.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027260925 Pages: 287 Price: Europe EURO 95.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027207357 Pages: 287 Price: U.S. $ 143.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027207357 Pages: 287 Price: U.K. £ 80.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027207357 Pages: 287 Price: Europe EURO 100.70


Abstract:

This book examines the diverse forms of conversational humor with the help of
examples drawn from casual interactions among Russian speakers. It argues that
neither an exclusively discourse-analytic perspective on the phenomenon nor an
exclusively cognitive one can adequately account for conversational joking.
Instead, the work advocates reconciling these two perspectives in order to
describe such humor as a form of cognitive and communicative creativity, by
means of which interlocutors convey additional meanings and imply further
interpretive frames. Accordingly, in order to analyze cognition in
interaction, it introduces a discourse-semantic framework which complements
mental spaces and blending theory with ideas from discourse analysis. On the
one hand, this enables both the emergent and interactive character and the
surface features of conversational joking to be addressed. On the other, it
incorporates into the analysis those normally backgrounded cognitive processes
responsible for the additional meanings emerging from, and communicated by
jocular utterances.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Discourse Analysis
                     Pragmatics

Subject Language(s): Russian (rus)


Written In: English  (eng)

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