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The Pragmatics of Humour in Interactive Contexts
Recent years have seen a burgeoning interest in interactional humour from social and pragmatic perspectives, with fascinating results. Released more than a decade later than Norrick and Chiaro (2009) Humor in Interaction, The Pragmatics of Humour in Interactive Contexts gathers some of the most recent work on humour in interaction, with contributions taking (meta)pragmatic approaches to the analysis of various genres of interactive humour in both online and offline settings. This volume illustrates that a range of methodologies and perspectives can be applied to the study of such a complex phenomenon. These include analyses with a cognitive orientation and with multimodal approaches, work based on Relevance Theory, the General Theory of Verbal Humour, and Conversation Analysis, among others. In addition, all the authors represented here are recognised experts on the subject, and in most cases, are leading specialists in their respective fields. The book can be of use not only to scholars who study the linguistics of humour in interaction but also to students who wish to pursue research in the area.
Metapragmatics of Humor
Metapragmatics of Humor: Current research trends contributes to a new area in the pragmatics of humor: its conception as a metapragmatic ability. The book collects thirteen chapters organized into three parts: Revisions and applications of General Theory of Verbal Humor (GTVH) in a metapragmatic context; Metapragmatic awareness of humor across textual modes; and Metapragmatic practices within the acquisition of humor. Thus, this book provides an up-to-date panorama of this field, where metapragmatic abilities are described in adults as well as in children, on humorous and non-humorous genres — jokes, cartoons, humorous monologues, parodies, conversation, Twitter —, and using several approaches, such as GTVH, multimodality, conversational analysis, eye-tracking methodology, etc.
Complimenting Behavior and (Self-)Praise across Social Media
The present volume focuses on complimenting behavior, including the awarding of (self-)praise, as manifested on social media. These commonplace activities have been found to fulfil a wide range of functions in face-to-face interaction, discoursal and relational amongst others. However, even though the giving of compliments and praise has become a pervasive practice in online environments, it remains a largely underexplored field of study within pragmatics. Self-praise is an activity that appears at the present time to be rapidly gaining ground online, and the various functions it performs clearly also need further investigation. The different contributions to this ground-breaking volume – 12 in total – aim to address this gap in research by exploring and shedding light on a number of aspects of these phenomena in a range of languages and language varieties. New socio-digital contexts are examined, supported in some cases by social networking sites not previously studied in complimenting behavior research. These include Facebook, Instagram, Renren, Twitter, as well as web forums, message boards and live text commentary.
The Discursive Construction of Place in the Digital Age
This collection calls for greater attention to the need for a clearer understanding of the role of discourse in the process of placemaking in the digital age and the increasing hybridisation of physical and virtual worlds. The volume outlines a new conceptualisation of place in the time of smartphones, whose technological and social affordances evoke placemaking as a collaborative endeavour which allows users to create and maintain a sense of community around place as shareable or collective experience. Taken together, the chapters argue for a greater emphasis on the ways in which users employ discourse to manage this physical-virtual interface in digital interactions and in turn, produce â€...
Figures of the Pre-Freudian Unconscious from Flaubert to Proust
This book examines nineteenth-century debates over the existence of the unconscious, demonstrating how they influence the writing of Flaubert, Proust and others.
Literatures in the Digital Era
The application of technology to information, communication, and culture has been through the history of humanity a key factor in social progress and well being. Literatures in the Digital Era: Theory and Praxis analyses in its twenty chapters the impacts of digital technology for the contemporary culture. The literary system is being powerfully affected in three aspects. In the first place, computer resources have been used to preserve and edit literary texts, associating to them graphical material, links with related texts or with dictionaries, and, above all, developing search tools of concordance and syntactic/semantic analysis. Secondly, we are watching the birth of a digital literature...
Rythmes, voix et mouvances poétiques en Suisse romande
La poésie romande est « un champ expérimental », relativement peu exploré. Et tel est le but de cet ouvrage : inviter le lecteur à découvrir la richesse et la vitalité d'une production qui, par ses formes, langages et motifs, occupe une place particulière au sein de la littérature d'expression française. Dans les entretiens, ici rassemblés, se côtoient des réflexions intimes - sur l'écriture et ses pouvoirs - et des considérations plus générales sur la poésie suisse contemporaine.
Traduction et évolution culturelle
Ce livre traite d'évolution darwinienne et de traduction. Il traite également de la possibilité de croiser ces concepts, afin de découvrir des affinités, des différences et, peut-être, une manière autre de penser ces deux domaines d'études. En effet, si la culture évolue selon des dynamiques darwiniennes, étudier le rôle que la traduction y joue devient primordial ; si, par contre, l'hypothèse d'une évolution darwinienne de la culture est incorrecte, elle pourra au moins être considérée comme une belle métaphore, permettant de jeter sur la traduction une lumière intéressante.
Goya, Les caprices
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) est, avec Vélasquez, l'un des plus grands peintres de l'école espagnole et de l'histoire de l'art occidental. Fruit de deux ans de travail, " Les Caprices ", prémices des " peintures noires ", se composent de 80 estampes à l'eau-forte, à l'aquatinte, parfois reprise au burin et à la pointe sèche, qui abordent trois grands thèmes : la satire sociale, les relations amoureuses et la sorcellerie. En correspondance avec " Les Caprices ", les travaus de certains artistes parmi les plus importants de la scène contemporaine (les britanniques David Reekie, Jake et Dinos Chapman, le japonais Yasumasa Morimura, l'américaine Rona Pondick et l'allemand Thomas Schütte) revisitent son héritage et révèlent le langage intemporel de cet artiste. Un chef-d'œuvre absolu de l'art mondial, dont cet ouvrage offre une reproduction intégrale.
French XX Bibliography
Provides the listing of books, articles, and book reviews concerned with French literature since 1885. This is a reference source in the study of modern French literature and culture. It contains nearly 8,800 entries.
