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Language and Humour in the Media

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Language and Humour in the Media provides new insights into the interface between humour studies and media discourse analysis, connecting two areas of scholarly interest that have not been studied extensively before. The volume adopts a multi-disciplinary approach, concentrating on the various roles humour plays in print and audiovisual media, the forms it takes, the purposes it serves, the butts it targets, the implications it carries and the differences it may assume across cultures.The phenomena described range from conversational humour, canned jokes and wordplay to humour in translation and news satire. The individual studies draw their material for analysis from traditional print and broadcast media, such as magazines, sitcoms, films and spoof news, as well as electronic and internet-based media, such as emails, listserv messages, live blogs and online news.The volume will be of primary interest to a wide range of researchers in the fields of discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, intercultural studies, pragmatics, communication studies, and rhetoric but it will also appeal to scholars in the areas of media studies, psychology and crosscultural communication. See more
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 148 x 212mm
  • Publication Date: 13 Jun 2012
  • Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781443838948

About

Jan Chovanec is Assistant Professor of English Linguistics at Masaryk University in Brno Czech Republic. He holds a PhD in English Linguistics and specializes in discourse analysis stylistics and pragmatics with a focus on mass media discourse and an interest in legal language. He has published on such issues as multimodality humour the pragmatics of computer-mediated communication political rhetoric the representation of social actors and the interactivity of discourse in media contexts. He is currently working on a book on the dialogic nature of the novel genre of live text commentary. He is the editor-in-chief of the journal Brno Studies in English.Isabel Ermida is Associate Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Minho in Portugal where she is currently Head of the English Department. She holds a PhD on the Language of Humour and is the author of The Language of Comic Narratives (Mouton de Gruyter 2008). She has also authored Linguistic Ambiguity in The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare (1998) and Humour Language and Narrative: Towards a Discourse Analysis of Literary Comedy (2003) both published in Portugal. Besides humour studies her research interests include the linguistics/literature interface and the sociolinguistic expression of gender age and ethnicity in media discourse.

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