In Enthymemes and Topoi in Dialogue, Ellen Breitholtz presents a novel and precise
account of reasoning from an interactional perspective. The account draws on the concepts …

In this paper we treat humorous situations as a series of events underpinned by topoi,
principles of reasoning recognised within a socio-cultural community. We claim that …

Children's acquisition of language requires their learning of not just words/concepts and
linguistic structure but how these interact in dialogue with knowledge about the world, our …

This article investigates how human and artificial intelligence (AI) influence each other and
what prospects of this unprecedented coexistence might be in the future in relation to …

This paper analyses whether the comprehension of a joke in Italian as a foreign language is
influenced by personal or task elements, whether comprehension influences the perception …

This thesis paves the way for including laughter in spoken dialogue systems in a domain-
general and linguistically valid way using computational linguistics tools and methods. The …

Our study examines the impacts on workers when organisational humour is repeated,
sustained, dominating, and potentially harmful, and thus can be considered to be bullying. In …

Punning is a form of wordplay based on the semantic opposition of two phonologically
similar words. Of those two words, the one explicitly expressed in the punning joke is called …