Conference selection

CIHV 2024

Alicante, 16-18 October 2024

John Benjamins will be present at CIHV 2024. Check out our promotional material and discount order form through the links below. Or come and browse our books at the exhibit. If you wish to talk about our books, your work, and possible publishing projects please get in touch with Isja Conen at isja.conen at benjamins.nl.

Check out our selection of top titles for this conference!


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P&bns 318
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Approaches to Internet Pragmatics

Theory and practice

Edited by Chaoqun Xie, Francisco Yus and Hartmut Haberland

Internet-mediated communication is pervasive nowadays, in an age in which many people shy away from physical settings and often rely, instead, on social media and messaging apps for their everyday communicative needs. Since pragmatics deals with communication in context and how more gets communicated than is said (or... full description
April 2021. vii, 348 pp.
THR 7
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The Dynamics of Interactional Humor

Creating and negotiating humor in everyday encounters

Edited by Villy Tsakona and Jan Chovanec

This book deals with the construction of diverse forms of humor in everyday oral, written, and mediatized interactions. It sheds light on the differences and, most importantly, the similarities in the production of interactional humor in face-to-face and various technology-mediated forms of communication, including... full description
January 2018. vi, 316 pp.
THR 12
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Exploring the Sociopragmatics of Online Humor

Villy Tsakona

This monograph explores the diverse sociopragmatic functions and meanings of humorous discourse in various online contexts affecting its use. To this end, an analytical model is proposed which takes into consideration the aspects of context which are relevant to the production and reception of humor, and hence to its... full description
July 2024. xi, 264 pp.
P&bns 182
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Humor in Interaction

Edited by Neal R. Norrick and Delia Chiaro

This is the first edited volume dedicated specifically to humor in interaction. It is a rich collection of essays by an international array of scholars representing various theoretical perspectives, but all concerned with interactional aspects of humor. The contributors are scholars active both in the... full description
July 2009. xvii, 238 pp.
THR 4
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Humour and Relevance

Francisco Yus

This book offers a cognitive-pragmatic, and specifically relevance-theoretic, analysis of different types of humorous discourse, together with the inferential strategies that are at work in the processing of such discourses. The book also provides a cognitive pragmatics description of how addressees obtain humorous... full description
March 2016. xix, 367 pp.
THR 11
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Humour in Self-Translation

Edited by Margherita Dore

This book explores an important aspect of human existence: humor in self-translation, a virtually unexplored area of research in Humour Studies and Translation Studies. Of the select group of international scholars contributing to this volume some examine literary texts from different perspectives (sociological,... full description
October 2022. xi, 278 pp.
THR 10
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Humour in the Beginning

Religion, humour and laughter in formative stages of Christianity, Islam, Buddhism and Judaism

Edited by Roald Dijkstra and Paul van der Velde

Humour in the Beginning presents a multidisciplinary collection of fourteen in-depth case-studies on the role of humour – both benign and blasphemous, elitist and ordinary, orthodox and heterodox – in early, formative stages of Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism and (late-antique) Judaism. Its coherence is... full description
October 2022. xii, 306 pp.
P&bns 231
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Irony and Humor

From pragmatics to discourse

Edited by Leonor Ruiz-Gurillo and M. Belén Alvarado Ortega

Irony and Humor: From pragmatics to discourse is a complete updated panorama of linguistic research on irony and humor, based on a variety of perspectives, corpora and theories. The book collects the most recent contributions from such diverse approaches as Relevance Theory, Cognitive Linguistics, General Theory of... full description
July 2013. vi, 270 pp.
FTL 1
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Irony in Language Use and Communication

Edited by Angeliki Athanasiadou and Herbert L. Colston

The volume provides original research and analyses of the multi-faceted conceptual and verbal process(es) of irony. Key topics explored include interdisciplinary perspectives and approaches to the study of irony. Collectively, the papers examine irony from psychology, embodiment studies, philosophy, cognitive... full description
December 2017. x, 282 pp.
IVITRA 14
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Metapragmatics of Humor

Current research trends

Edited by Leonor Ruiz-Gurillo

Metapragmatics of Humor: Current research trends contributes to a new area in the pragmatics of humor: its conception as a metapragmatic ability. The book collects thirteen chapters organized into three parts: Revisions and applications of General Theory of Verbal Humor (GTVH) in a metapragmatic context; Metapragmatic... full description
November 2016. vi, 301 pp.
FTL 12
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Modeling Irony

A cognitive-pragmatic account

Inés Lozano-Palacio and Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez

This book adopts a broad cognitive-pragmatic perspective on irony which sees ironic meaning as the result of complex inferential activity arising from conflicting conceptual scenarios. This view of irony is the basis for an analytically productive integrative account capable of bridging gaps among disciplines and of... full description
February 2022. ix, 173 pp.
FTL 13
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The Multimodal Performance of Conversational Humor

Elisa Gironzetti

This volume is the first monograph exploring the functions of visual cues in humor, advocating for the development of a non-linguocentric theory of humor performance. It analyzes a corpus of dyadic, face-to-face interactions in Spanish and English to study the relationship between humor, smiling, and gaze, and shows... full description
April 2022. xix, 235 pp.
P&bns 256
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Participation in Public and Social Media Interactions

Edited by Marta Dynel and Jan Chovanec

This book deals with participation frameworks in modern social and public media. It brings together several cutting-edge research studies that offer exciting new insights into the nature and formats of interpersonal communication in diverse technology-mediated contexts. Some papers introduce new theoretical extensions... full description
February 2015. vi, 285 pp.
THR 9
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Playing with Mental Models

Humour in the BBC comedy series The Office

Henri de Jongste

In this book, the author uses a mental-model theory of communication to investigate the acclaimed British situation comedy The Office. The approach taken is multi-disciplinary, and focuses on questions as:What are mental models and what role do they play in communication in general, and in creating and watching The... full description
June 2020. xv, 301 pp.
P&bns 210
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The Pragmatics of Humour across Discourse Domains

Edited by Marta Dynel

This edited volume brings together a range of contributions solely on the linguistics of humour. Rather than favour one approach, this collection of articles gives a state-of-the-art picture of current directions in pragmatic humour studies. The contributors assume multifarious theoretical perspectives and discuss a... full description
July 2011. vi, 382 pp.
P&bns 335
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The Pragmatics of Humour in Interactive Contexts

Edited by Esther Linares Bernabéu

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... full description
May 2023. vi, 239 pp.
LAL 30
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The Pragmatics of Irony and Banter

Edited by Manuel Jobert and Sandrine Sorlin

The Pragmatics of Irony and Banter is the first book-length study analysing irony and banter together. This approach, inherited from Geoffrey Leech’s research, implies that the two notions are intrinsically related. In this thought-provoking volume, the various contributors (linguists, stylisticians, discourse... full description
April 2018. vi, 221 pp.
BCT 55
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Prosody and Humor

Edited by Salvatore Attardo, Manuela Maria Wagner and Eduardo Urios-Aparisi

This is the first-ever book-length collection of articles on the subject of prosody and humor. The chapters are written by the recognized leaders in the field and present the cutting edge of the research in this new interdisciplinary field of study. The book covers a broad range of languages, using several theoretical... full description
December 2013. v, 192 pp.
DAPSAC 46
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Studies in Political Humour

In between political critique and public entertainment

Edited by Villy Tsakona and Diana Elena Popa

If politics is a serious matter and humour a funny one, this volume investigates how and why the boundaries between the two are blurred: politics can be represented in a humorous manner and humour can have a serious intent. Political humour conveys criticism against the political status quo and/or recycles and... full description
November 2011. x, 290 pp.