Language and Gender is an introduction to the study of the relation between gender and
language use, written by two leading experts in the field. This new edition, thoroughly …

This book presents a theory of long humorous texts based on a revision and an upgrade of
the General Theory of Verbal Humour (GTVH), a decade after its first proposal. The theory is …

This article presents a theory of irony which claims that an ironical utterance is both
inappropriate and relevant to its context. Extensive discussion of previous theories of irony is …

The Linguistics of Laughter examines what speakers try to achieve by producing 'laughter-
talk'(the talk preceding and eliciting an episode of laughter) and, by using abundant …

This book offers fresh perspectives on untruthfulness entailed in various forms of irony,
deception and humour, which have so far constituted independent foci of linguistic and …

The article deals with the paradox of the communicative nature of jokes, which are defined
as a type of text that violates the principle of cooperation. The consequences of violating the …

My article deals with responses to irony in two different contexts. As an interaction analyst, I
am interested in what interlocutors do with the ironic in the co-construction of the ongoing …

This article proposes the adoption of Goffman's concept of “framing” to characterize irony
across its forms; the suggestion that this framing is achieved by a shift of footing reveals links …

The first study, based on instances of everyday talk, to analyze prosodic orientation, a
conversational strategy by which speakers design their speaking voice according to the …

The present study examines an area of SLA that has to date received little attention: the
development of L2 humor. Both creation and comprehension of humor in an L2 can be …