This book provides a first thorough analysis of internet humour from a cognitive-pragmatic perspective, covering a wide range of discourses that are pervasive online and focusing especially on messaging interactions, social networking sites and memes. Its chapters describe the inferential strategies implemented to turn online coded discourses into meaningful interpretations, which in turn can be devised and manipulated for the sake of humour. Furthermore, and apart from the typica...
Table of Content
Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Relevance Theory, Humour and Internet Communication.- Chapter 3. Internet Humour.- Chapter 4. Contextual Constraints on Interne...
About the author
Francisco Yus is full professor at the university of Alicante. He has applied pragmatics to internet communication (
Ciberpragmática, 2001;
Ciberpragmática 2.0,...