Humor and Intertextuality : Looking for Humor in Between Texts
and Targets

CHOVANEC, Jan and Villy TSAKONA. Humor and Intertextuality : Looking for Humor in Between Texts and Targets. 2018.

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TY  - CONF
ID  - 1422868
AU  - Chovanec, Jan - Tsakona, Villy
PY  - 2018
TI  - Humor and Intertextuality : Looking for Humor in Between Texts and Targets
KW  - humour
KW  - pragmatics
KW  - otherness
KW  - discourse analysis
UR  - https://www.folklore.ee/rl/fo/konve/ishs2018/call-for-papers/#accordion-1-t1
N2  - The panel aims to bring together contributions that offer novel insights into the interface between humor and intertextuality. Intertextuality is crucial for humor in that it consists of the body of background knowledge that humor producers can draw on to create their intended effects. More specifically, humor intertextually draws on other texts, recycling shared cultural knowledge and applying it in novel situations as well as in novel media and humor genres. We are particularly interested in how humor shifts targets: from traditional ones to more recent ones, and how intertextuality recontextualizes traditional forms of humor into new ones. Another dimension of intertextuality that is significant for the present discussion is its ability to multiply the targets of humor: besides the person, ideas, acts, institutions denigrated through humor, intertextual allusions highlight the differences between those ‘in the know’ and those ‘out of the know’, thus rendering the latter potential targets as well. It therefore seems that both humor and intertextuality are powerful mechanisms for constructing group boundaries and articulating ingroup exclusivity. In this sense, this panel proposal aims to attract papers with not only a descriptive orientation, but also a critical one, offering explanations of the humorous phenomena within the broader contexts of the interlocutors’ social and cultural practices and in view of the dominant ideological presuppositions attested and negotiated therein. We wish to place particular emphasis on the ideological presuppositions behind the texts and the targets that are exploited in establishing intertextual links across humorous (and perhaps non humorous) texts. We thus aim to show how alignment and consensus between humor producers and recipients are (more or less tacitly) constructed in diverse communicative environments and genres, from political discourse to online social media.
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Basic information
Original name	Humor and Intertextuality : Looking for Humor in Between Texts and Targets
Name in Czech	Humor a intertextualita : Hledání humoru mezi texty a cíli humoru
Authors	CHOVANEC, Jan (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Villy TSAKONA (300 Greece).
Edition	2018.

Other information
Original language	English
Type of outcome	Organization of a workshop
Field of Study	60203 Linguistics
Country of publisher	Estonia
Confidentiality degree	is not subject to a state or trade secret
WWW	URL
RIV identification code	RIV/00216224:14210/18:00101038
Organization unit	Faculty of Arts
Keywords (in Czech)	humor; pragmatika; jinakost; analýza diskurzu
Keywords in English	humour; pragmatics; otherness; discourse analysis
Tags	rivok
Tags	International impact, Reviewed
Changed by	Changed by: Mgr. Jana Pelclová, Ph.D., učo 39970. Changed: 13/3/2019 09:43.

Abstract

The panel aims to bring together contributions that offer novel insights into the interface between humor and intertextuality. Intertextuality is crucial for humor in that it consists of the body of background knowledge that humor producers can draw on to create their intended effects. More specifically, humor intertextually draws on other texts, recycling shared cultural knowledge and applying it in novel situations as well as in novel media and humor genres. We are particularly interested in how humor shifts targets: from traditional ones to more recent ones, and how intertextuality recontextualizes traditional forms of humor into new ones. Another dimension of intertextuality that is significant for the present discussion is its ability to multiply the targets of humor: besides the person, ideas, acts, institutions denigrated through humor, intertextual allusions highlight the differences between those ‘in the know’ and those ‘out of the know’, thus rendering the latter potential targets as well. It therefore seems that both humor and intertextuality are powerful mechanisms for constructing group boundaries and articulating ingroup exclusivity. In this sense, this panel proposal aims to attract papers with not only a descriptive orientation, but also a critical one, offering explanations of the humorous phenomena within the broader contexts of the interlocutors’ social and cultural practices and in view of the dominant ideological presuppositions attested and negotiated therein. We wish to place particular emphasis on the ideological presuppositions behind the texts and the targets that are exploited in establishing intertextual links across humorous (and perhaps non humorous) texts. We thus aim to show how alignment and consensus between humor producers and recipients are (more or less tacitly) constructed in diverse communicative environments and genres, from political discourse to online social media.

Links
GA16-05484S, research and development project	Name: Diskurzní konstrukce jinakosti v mediálním a postmediálním prostoru
GA16-05484S, research and development project	Investor: Czech Science Foundation

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