Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Sociopragmatics
- Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
- The Cambridge Handbook of Sociopragmatics
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Fundamentals of Sociopragmatics
- Part II Topics and Settings in Sociopragmatics
- 13 Face, Facework and Face-Threatening Acts
- 14 Relationships and Relating
- 15 Analysing Identity
- 16 (Im)politeness and Sociopragmatics
- 17 Affect and Emotion
- 18 Power
- 19 Morality in Sociopragmatics
- 20 Conversational Humour
- 21 Gesture and Prosody in Multimodal Communication
- 22 Digitally Mediated Communication
- 23 Workplace and Institutional Discourse
- 24 Service Encounter Discourse
- 25 Argumentative, Political and Legal Discourse
- 26 The Pragmatics of Translation
- Part III Approaches and Methods in Sociopragmatics
- Index
- References
20 - Conversational Humour
from Part II - Topics and Settings in Sociopragmatics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 April 2021
- The Cambridge Handbook of Sociopragmatics
- Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
- The Cambridge Handbook of Sociopragmatics
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Fundamentals of Sociopragmatics
- Part II Topics and Settings in Sociopragmatics
- 13 Face, Facework and Face-Threatening Acts
- 14 Relationships and Relating
- 15 Analysing Identity
- 16 (Im)politeness and Sociopragmatics
- 17 Affect and Emotion
- 18 Power
- 19 Morality in Sociopragmatics
- 20 Conversational Humour
- 21 Gesture and Prosody in Multimodal Communication
- 22 Digitally Mediated Communication
- 23 Workplace and Institutional Discourse
- 24 Service Encounter Discourse
- 25 Argumentative, Political and Legal Discourse
- 26 The Pragmatics of Translation
- Part III Approaches and Methods in Sociopragmatics
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter aims to give an overview of the interdisciplinary linguistic research on conversational humour, depicting it as a vital sociopragmatic phenomenon in human interaction. First, we address the key concepts and theoretical approaches found in this field. Second, we focus on a wide spectrum of discourse domains in which those different types of humour are typically deployed. Furthermore, this chapter provides an overview of sociocultural variables in the research on conversational humour, such as intercultural (involving interlocutors from different cultural backgrounds) and cross-cultural (comparing social practices in different cultures) aspects. Our fourth goal is to present the sociopragmatic functions, both discursive and interpersonal, of humour in human interaction. Finally, a number of case studies are offered throughout the chapter in order to illustrate how language users engage in and refer to humorous practices in different interactional settings.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Sociopragmatics , pp. 408 - 429Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
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