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

by Nadine Thielemann

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