[Rstlist] information on new publication

[Francisco Yus]

Dear all,
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...

Thanks in advance

Regards,

Francisco Yus

Title: Humour and Relevance
Publisher: John Benjamins
Author: Francisco Yus
ISBN 9789027202314
Year: 2016
Official url: https://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/thr.4/main

Contents and introduction available here:
http://personal.ua.es/francisco.yus/HR.pdf

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.

Dr. Francisco Yus
Universidad de Alicante
Departamento de Filología Inglesa
Apartado 99
E-03080 Alicante (Espa a)

https://sites.google.com/site/franciscoyus
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