… The volume entitled The Pragmatics of Humour across Discourse Domains contributes to a
… research on humour. This book embraces, in the strictest sense, topics pertinent to humorous …

… of humour and their workings in different discourse domains, as viewed by linguists with
interests in pragmatic … The seventeen chapters show that humour is a complex and diversified …

… of pragmatics, the book embraces pragmatic humour studies as … humour research in different
discourse domains are presented in the volume. Part 1, “Stylistic figures as forms of humour,…

… The volume entitled The Pragmatics of Humour across Discourse Domains contributes to a
… research on humour. This book embraces, in the strictest sense, topics pertinent to humorous …

… humor we need a pragmatics of language performance that distinguishes between primary
and collateral signals and takes into account the turn-by-turn development of discourse (…

… Along these lines, in this volume Yus suggests a more comprehensive picture of joke … to
account for the manipulation and production of humorous effects. In turn, interactionist analyses …

… understand the speaker’s (humorous) intentions and his… humorous) communicative
phenomena. The main aim of the book is therefore to demonstrate that different humorous …

… juxtaposed with comedy discourse, rather than be used as a blanket term covering the discourse
of … research on humour in film discourse, which is here used technically as an umbrella …

… plays out in Nigerian sitcoms, this study investigates the manifestation of intentional humour
… humorous utterances in the series and the pragmatic strategies deployed in creating humour…

… humorous forms and mechanisms in public discourse, that is in literature (Marszalek in this
volume on context-based literary humour… audience’s roles in humour reception in a television …