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Leonor Ruiz-Gurillo (ed.) (2016), Metapragmatics of Humour: Current Research Trends. IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature 14. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 309 pp.
More...Oring, Elliott (2016). Joking Asides: The Theory, Analysis, and Aesthetics of Humour. Boulder: University Press of Colorado. 283 pages.
More...Quirk, S. (2015). Why Stand-Up Comedy Matters. How Comedians Manipulate and Influence. London and New York: Bloomsbury. 248 pages.
More...May, Shaun (2016). A Philosophy of Comedy on Stage and Screen: You Have to Be There. Bloomsbury Methuen Drama. London: Bloomsbury, 213 pp. ISBN: 9781472580436
More...Plester, Barbara (2016). The Complexity of Workplace Humour: Laughter, Jokers and the Dark Side of Humour. London & New York: Springer, 164 pp.
More...Brône G., Feyaerts, K. and Veale, T. (eds.) (2015). Cognitive Linguistics and Humour. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 248 pp.
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This paper analyses the semantic role of the subject in constructions with sensory verbs from a cognitive-grammatical perspective, and primarily its agentivity. Namely, the basic categorisation of perception verbs is established precisely in relation to the semantic role of the subject in constructions with perception verbs, while the main semantic determinant of the subject, based on which sensory verbs are divided into volition or active perception verbs, non-volition or passive perception verbs and flip-verbs, is its agentivity. The main goal of this paper is to review the generally accepted categorisation of sensory verbs as stative verbs or state verbs, especially when it comes to verbs like see and hear, which are often classified as passive perception verbs and stative verbs based on superficial and imprecise language tests, while the subject is often described as passive, non-volition, and non-agentive, which then leads to imprecise grammatical descriptions and misunderstandings, not only of perception verbs but also of other grammatical concepts important for studying verbs in general, such as event structure of construction or aktionsart, semantic verb extensions, syntactic environment in which they appear, transitivity, etc. In this paper, the analysis of the semantic role of the subject in constructions with sensory verbs of sight and hearing is based on the methodology of cognitive linguistics, i.e. cognitive grammar, with emphasis on the idea of language embodiment, which includes an encyclopaedic view of meaning, the concept of canonical event model and the idea of gradual categories based on prototype effects.
More...Dynel, Marta (2013). Developments in Linguistic Humour Theory. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 425 pp.
More...– a case of humour associations and remembering humorous stories
Four experiments with 48 participants were conducted to study humour perception and memorization. A computerized method (FVW) from Vienna Test System was used (Kessler, Pietrzyk & Puhr, 2003), as well as humour associations, the recall of three funny stories, a short text evoking admiration and respect. The research was focused on what was associated with the word “humour” and on the types of the best remembered stories. The results indicated that the participants remembered better concrete rather than abstract stimuli, as well as meaningful rather than meaningless stimuli. The participants remembered well short verbal stimuli. They associated humour mainly with positive meaning, positive emotions (joy, happiness, amusement, satisfaction). The participants remembered better and non-intentionally the verbal stories heard by them that they estimated as the funniest compared to the stories estimated by them as less funny or the sentences provoking other positive emotions (admiration and respect). The funniest estimated stories were relevant to their personal experience, no matter if they contained puns or not. The estimated least funny story also contained puns, but contradicted some social norms related to the appropriate behaviour at the workplace.
More...Winter-Froemel, Esme and Zirker Angelika (eds.) (2015), Enjeux du jeu de mots. Perspectives linguistiques et littéraires [Stakes of wordplay. Linguistic and literary perspectives].1 De Gruyter: Berlin/Boston.
More...Implications for teacher education
The conception of a comedic hero as a trickster functions as a useful trope for evaluating the attempts teachers make as advocates in schools. The specific elements of the trope that the authors find useful are (a) comedy as a space where the absurd mingles with the tragic; (b) resurrection or bringing forward from the dead as major plot device; and (c) the goal of societal integration. These elements of the comedic trickster trope are used to interpret three narratives of teacher advocacy in a junior high school. By analysing these narratives of advocacy in the frame of the comedic trickster, the authors argue that current teacher education practices described in research literature provide little guidance for how teacher candidates moving into school systems can develop and proactively maintain a stance of advocacy in their interactions with students and colleagues. Teacher candidates are not being prepared to handle absurdity, tragedy, resurrection, or the integration of students. Further, the authors assert practicing teachers who engage in advocacy in the frame of a comedic trickster are in danger of succumbing to an ironic plotline where they are unable to do what they want to and know they should. Acknowledging the presence of comedic tricksters might open up spaces for practicing teachers to write new stories of themselves as advocates and avoid the entrapment of irony.
More...Weingärtner, T . (2013). Comedy Boom in Japan: Performative und mediale Rahmung von Humor in der aktuellen Populärkultur [Framing of humour through performance and medium in current popular culture.] Munich: Iudicium. 430 pp.
More...Litovkina, A. T., Sollosy, J., Medgyes, P. & Brzozowska, D. (eds.) (2012). Hungarian Humour . Krakow: Tertium. 384 pp.
More...Géza Hofi’s political implicatures from the happiest barracks in the socialist camp
By taking a pragma-rhetorical approach, this article characterises the genre of Géza Hofi’s political humour, developed during the communist Kádár era in Hungary, and investigates implicature as his main rhetorical device for conveying politically sensitive messages to the audience. Three of his most popular and representative performances from the mid-1970s and early 1980s are selected for a thorough investigation of how the use of tropes and certain figures of thought creates implicatures and identification between the actor-humorist and the viewers/listeners. It is demonstrated that Hofi’s theatrical stand-up comedy (or performance comedy) makes a monologic genre quasi-dialogic, another necessary component of the special atmosphere of his performances. The analysis is embedded into the East-Central European political context of the Cold War. In addition, the Hungarian societal climate of that time is also touched upon in order to provide better insight into the Hofi-phenomenon.
More...Simon, J. C. (2008). Why We Laugh: A New Understanding. Carmel, IN: Starbrook Publishing. 301 pp.
More...What’s humour got to do with it?
The Humor Styles Questionnaire (HSQ) by Martin et al. (2003) measures four humour styles, namely affiliative, self-enhancing, aggressive and self-defeating. In contrast to former humour instruments, the HSQ has strong relations to various measures of psychological well-being. However, its incremental validity in relation to basic personality traits has not been sufficiently studied. Two studies analysed how much unique variance the HSQ contributed to predicting psychological well-being over and above personality. While the affiliative, self-enhancing and self-defeating humour style were potent predictors of well-being in Study 1, the results also indicated that these humour styles had small effects when personality was controlled for. Study 2 tested a possible explanation for these findings, namely that the context (i.e., non-humorous components) of the HSQ items dominates their humour-specific content. Two questionnaires were utilised to separate context and humour components in the HSQ. Results showed that (a) the HSQ contributed little in predicting personality and psychological well-being once context was controlled for, and that (b) the humour component of each HSQ scale correlated highly with other humour instruments and neither of them were detrimental or maladaptive in terms of psychological well-being. Thus, these two studies showed a low incremental validity of humour styles in predicting psychological well-being beyond personality and hint to a limited role that humour plays in the these relationships. Overall, the humour components of the HSQ rather resemble those of other self-report measures and mainly comprise humour appreciation and humour production in everyday life.
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