Abstract

Humor in Interaction is a collection of research papers that bring a valuable contribution to the field of humour studies and other related areas, such as linguistic pragmatics, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, psycholinguistics, gender studies and translation studies. Its central focus is on interactional aspects of humour, and the results are based on a complex set of data, extracted either from everyday conversations, talks at work or controlled experiments and questionnaires, using a wide array of approaches, from Conversation Analysis and Politeness Theory to Community of Practice and Bakhtin’s theory.

The book is divided into four parts, the first being an Introduction by the editors, Neal R. Norrick and Delia Chiaro, who present the aims and structure of the volume.

Keywords
Humour; Interaction; conversational humor; Pragmatics; Discourse analysis; Sociolinguistics; Intercultural communication.

References

Bakhtin, M.M. (1981). The dialogic imagination. In C. Emerson, & M. Holquist (Eds), The dialogic imagination: Four essays by M.M. Bakhtin. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press.

Goffman, E. (1981). Forms of talk. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Gumperz, J.J. (1982). Discourse strategies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Norrick, N.R. (1993). Conversational joking. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Scollon, R. (1998). Mediated discourse as social interaction: A study of news discourse. London: Longman.

How to cite this article
Popescu, T. (2009). Neal R. Norrick and Delia Chiaro, Eds., Humor in Interaction, Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. 2009. Pp. xvii + 238. ISBN 978 90 272 8933 9. Journal of Linguistic and Intercultural Education – Jolie, 2(2), 293-296. DOI: https://doi.org/10.29302/jolie.2009.2.2.28