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Language and humour in the media / edited by Jan Chovanec and Isabel Ermida

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Language and humor in the media
Published
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012.
Physical Description
1 online resource (vi, 260 pages) : illustrations
Additional Creators
Chovanec, Jan and Ermida, Isabel, 1968-
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Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF TABLES; LIST OF FIGURES; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; HUMOUR, LANGUAGE AND THE MEDIA; PART ONE; "LAUGHTER IS THE BEST MEDICINE"; TOWARDS A CROSS-LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF HUMOUR IN ACADEMIC READING; THE HIDDEN MEDIA HUMOR AND HIDDEN THEORY; PART TWO; DIALECTS AT THE SERVICE OF HUMOUR WITHIN THE AMERICAN SITCOM; HUMOUR ON THE HOUSE; FRAMING COMMUNICATION AS PLAY IN THE SITCOM; CONVERSATIONAL HUMOUR AND JOINT FANTASIZING IN ONLINE JOURNALISM; WORDPLAY AS A SELLING STRATEGY IN ADVERTISEMENTS AND SALES PROMOTION; PART THREE; NEWS SATIRE IN THE PRESS. and ETHNIC HUMOUR AND POLITICAL ADVERTISINGHUMOUR AS A MEANS OF POPULAR EMPOWERMENT; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX.
Summary
"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"--Provided by publisher.
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ISBN
9781443839389 (electronic bk.)
1443839388 (electronic bk.)
1299659195
9781299659193
9781443838948 (cloth)
1443838942 (cloth)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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