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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.
Reference
This volume provides an innovative approach to the referential process thanks to its focus on the relationship between conventions and discourse pragmatics. It brings together a cross-section of current research on referential conventions and pragmatic strategies, in a number of different fields (formal and theoretical linguistics, semantics, discourse analysis, psycholinguistics, interactional linguistics, natural language processing), in a variety of verbal and non-verbal languages (English, German, different varieties of French, Indonesian, French Belgian Sign Language) and in a diversity of contexts (the coining of names, language acquisition, second language learning, and various genres such as news articles, narratives, satire or game playing). The volume is meant as a series of thought-provoking studies which place speakers and addressees at the core of the referential act, thus providing evidence on how they negotiate and adjust, depending on the context.
Why So Serious?
Satire blends verbal irony, humour, and parody into a subtle critique, usually aimed towards a social or political wrong. Accordingly, satire has captured the attention of scholars spanning multiple disciplines, naturally leading to divergent definitions and understandings of satire. This book takes an interdisciplinary perspective to consider the ways in which satirical discourse can also be viewed as a form of creative language play, which may serve as a useful criterion along which to discuss disciplinary variation associated with satire. Through the lens of humour theory and a theory of satire as discourse, satirical texts such as satirical news and satirical product reviews are analysed...
Language Skills
This volume brings an international perspective to language skills – an area of importance to both theorists and practitioners in all contexts of language teaching and learning. The twenty-seven chapters included here are arranged into six sections devoted to fundamental background issues, spoken interaction, perception of speech sounds and production skills, reading contexts and purposes, writing challenges for advanced learners, and technology and language skills. Explored themes range from the conceptualization of language as skill and the development of L2 skills in communicative and intercultural approaches, through challenges in teaching specific skills and their components, to the c...
(Non)referentiality in Conversation
Although there is a large literature on referentiality, going back to at least the nineteenth and early twentieth century, much of this early work is based on constructed data and most of it is on English. The chapters in this volume contribute to a growing body of work that examines referentiality through naturalistic data in context. Taking an interactional approach to (non)referentiality, contributors to this volume ask how participants talk in real time about persons and things as individuals or as categories, and what distinguishes ‘referential’ from ‘nonreferential’, ‘specific’ from ‘nonspecific’, and ‘generic’ from ‘nongeneric’. Crucially, we ask whether these ...
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Digital Genres, New Literacies and Autonomy in Language Learning
The exponential growth in the amount and complexity of information transmitted and shared on the Internet and the capabilities afforded by new information technologies result in the continuous emergence of new genres and new literacy practices that call for new models of genre analysis and new approaches to teaching literacy and language, where language learning autonomy has to take centre stage. Any pedagogical approach which seeks to develop autonomy in online language learning should also be concerned with the development of new literacies, with raising an awareness of digital texts and with the cognitive processes learners engage in when constructing meaning in hypertext. The purpose of ...
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Français et ordinateur : revue bibliographique, 1978-1988
Les applications pédagogiques de l'ordinateur au français, constituent un domaine de recherche faisant l'objet de nombreuses publications. Une revue bibliographique sur ce thème est donc un outil de référence précieux, pour le chercheur comme pour l'utilisateur. Les auteurs de cette bibliographie commentée, sont impliqués à la fois dans des actions de recherche et dans des projets de développement d'outils pédagogiques. Cet ouvrage est présenté par l'Université du Québec à Montréal, et il a reçu le soutien de l'Agence de coopération culturelle et technique (ACCT), par le biais du Conseil international de recherche et d'étude en linguistique fondamentale et appliquée (CIRELFA).
