Chovanec Jan, Ermida Isabel (Editors). Language and Humour in the Media

Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012. — ix, 260 pages. — ISBN: (13): 978-1-4438-3894-8.Humour and the media are such intertwined phenomena that it may be hard to tackle one without resorting to the other. From cartoons and comic strips, through Internet gags and humorous adverts, to sitcoms and funny remarks in editorials and opinion articles, the media do thrive in linguistic manifestations of humour. Whether or notit serves as a playful distraction, a marketing strategy, or an instrument to make a point, attack indirectly or voice the unspeakable, humour in the media deserves attention both as a discoursal device and a sociolinguistic phenomenon. At the same time, it also requires a consideration of the forms it assumes and the linguistic structures it deploys, be it with regard to wordplay or to the stylistic and rhetorical devices of which it makes use. Actually, the humour in the media stands out as a particularly challenging topic that not only congregates a number of research questions central to the history of humour studies but also addresses the two paradigms around which the linguistics of humour has spun: on the one hand, structurally-oriented approaches; on the other, interactional and pragmatic ones.Humour, Language and the Media
Responses to Mass Media Humour across the Disciplines
“Laughter is the Best Medicine”: The Construction of Old Age in Ageist Humor
Towards a Cross-Linguistic Analysis of Humour in Academic Reading ..
The Hidden Media Humor and Hidden Theory
The Mechanisms of Humour in the Mass Media
Dialects at the Service of Humour within the American Sitcom: A Challenge for the Dubbing Translator
Humour on the House: Interactional Construction of Metaphor in Film Discourse
Framing Communication as Play in the Sitcom: Patterning the Verbal and the Nonverbal in Humour
Conversational Humour and Joint Fantisizing in Online Journalism
Wordplay as a Selling Strategy in Advertisements and Sales Promotion
Mass Media Humour as Political and Social Critique
News Satire in the Press: Linguistic Construction of Humour in Spoof News Articles
Ethnic Humour and Political Advertising
Humour as a Means of Popular Empowerment: The Discourse of the French Gossip Magazines