Understanding Conversational Joking: A Cognitive-Pragmatic Study Based on Russian Interactions

(Book #310 in the Pragmatics & Beyond New Series Series)

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This book examines the diverse forms of conversational humor with the help of examples drawn from casual interactions among Russian speakers. It argues that neither an exclusively discourse-analytic perspective on the phenomenon nor an exclusively cognitive one can adequately account for conversational joking. Instead, the work advocates reconciling these two perspectives in order to describe such humor as a form of cognitive and communicative creativity,...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:9027207356

ISBN13:9789027207357

Release Date:June 2020

Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Company

Length:287 Pages

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Understanding Conversational Joking: A Cognitive-Pragmatic Study Based on Russian Interactions

(Book #310 in the Pragmatics & Beyond New Series Series)

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