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CHOVANEC, Jan. Humour and conflict in public discourse. In 10th Brno Conference on Linguistics Studies in English 2023: Looking beyond the surface of the text. 2023.

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Original name	Humour and conflict in public discourse
Authors	CHOVANEC, Jan.
Edition	10th Brno Conference on Linguistics Studies in English 2023: Looking beyond the surface of the text, 2023.

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Original language	English
Type of outcome	Requested lectures
Field of Study	60203 Linguistics
Country of publisher	Czech Republic
Confidentiality degree	is not subject to a state or trade secret
WWW	URL URL
Organization unit	Faculty of Arts
Keywords (in Czech)	humor; intertextualita; diskurz; sociální média; mediální jazyk; stylistika; pragmatika
Keywords in English	humour; intertextuality; discourse; social media; media language; stylistics; pragmatics
Tags	International impact, Reviewed
Changed by	Changed by: Mgr. Jana Pelclová, Ph.D., učo 39970. Changed: 7/2/2024 13:28.

Abstract
In recent years, there has been an increased interest in the research of humour in diverse communicative contexts, marking a clear shift of focus from the referential or cognitive properties of language to the interpersonal dimension of communication, as well as to language play and creativity (Attardo 2017, Vásquez 2019). Against the background of the traditional approaches to the study of humour, the talk argues for the need to adopt an explicit socio-pragmatic perspective (e.g. Tsakona and Chovanec 2023) in order to explain some of the forms and functions of this phenomenon in modern mediated contexts. The talk discusses some recent humorous data collected from various domains of public discourse to show how humour is present in the modern hybrid media environment (Koivukoski 2022), and how memetic humorous content (Shifman 2014, Wiggins 2019) flows between the social and public media spheres, particularly in relation to domestic and international conflicts.

Abstract

In recent years, there has been an increased interest in the research of humour in diverse communicative contexts, marking a clear shift of focus from the referential or cognitive properties of language to the interpersonal dimension of communication, as well as to language play and creativity (Attardo 2017, Vásquez 2019). Against the background of the traditional approaches to the study of humour, the talk argues for the need to adopt an explicit socio-pragmatic perspective (e.g. Tsakona and Chovanec 2023) in order to explain some of the forms and functions of this phenomenon in modern mediated contexts. The talk discusses some recent humorous data collected from various domains of public discourse to show how humour is present in the modern hybrid media environment (Koivukoski 2022), and how memetic humorous content (Shifman 2014, Wiggins 2019) flows between the social and public media spheres, particularly in relation to domestic and international conflicts.

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MUNI/A/1053/2022, interní kód MU	Name: Paradigms, strategies and developments - English linguistics and translation III
MUNI/A/1053/2022, interní kód MU	Investor: Masaryk University, Paradigms, strategies and developments - English linguistics and translation III