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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 awareness of humor across textual modes; and Metapragmatic practices within the acquisition of humor. Thus, this book provides an up-to-date panorama of this field, where metapragmatic abilities are described in adults as well as in children, on humorous and non-humorous genres...

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 Verbal Humor, Neo-Gricean Pragmatics or Argumentation. The volume is organized in three parts referring to pragmatic perspectives, mediated discourse, and conversational interaction. This book will be highly relevant for anyone interested in pragmatics, discourse analysis as...

En el presente estudio la autora realiza un analisis linguistico y retorico de 80 resumenes escritos en ingles y espanol por hablantes nativos. Los textos analizados pertenecen a publicaciones medicas y linguisticas. Como base teorica previa al analisis se revisan aspectos en torno a la retorica contrastiva, el multiculturalismo y el genero. Los resultados indican que el discurso escrito del genero de los resumenes no presenta profundas diferencias culturales o de areas de conocimiento, debido a los convencionalismos multinacionales y a la universalidad existentes en este tipo de textos. A...