The interpretative non-prototypicality of puns as a factor in the emergence of humor and in phatic communication

References

Abdel-Raheem, Ahmed. 2022. Metaphorical creativity contributing to multimodal impoliteness in political cartoons. Intercultural Pragmatics 19(1). 35–70. https://doi.org/10.1515/ip-2022-0002.Search in Google Scholar

Ai, Lin. 2007. A cognitive-pragmatic study of English puns and Chinese shuangguan. Shanghai International Studies University dissertation. Available at: www.dissertationtopic.net/doc/1639301.Search in Google Scholar

Attardo, Salvattore. 1994. Linguistic theories of humor. New York: Mouton.Search in Google Scholar

Attridge, Derek. 1988. Unpacking the portmanteau; or who’s afraid of Finnegan’s Wake? In Jonathan Culler (ed.), On puns. The foundation of letters, 140–155. Oxford & New York: Basil Blackwell.Search in Google Scholar

Brown, Penelope & Stephen C. Levinson. 1987. Politeness: Some universals in language usage. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Search in Google Scholar

Burchfield, Robert (ed.). 1989. Oxford English dictionary. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Search in Google Scholar

Carrell, Amy. 1997. Joke competence and humor competence. Humor 10. 173–185. https://doi.org/10.1515/humr.1997.10.2.173.Search in Google Scholar

Chovanec, Jan. 2005. Czeching out puns and clichés in football reporting. In Jan Chovanec (ed.), Theory and practice in English studies, vol. 3, 61–67. Brno: Masarykova Univerzita.Search in Google Scholar

Chiaro, Della. 1992. The language of jokes: Analysing verbal play. London: Routledge.Search in Google Scholar

Coulson, Seana & Todd Oakley. 2000. Blending basics. Cognitive Linguistics 11(3/4). 175–196.Search in Google Scholar

Cruse, Alan. 2006. A glossary of semantics and pragmatics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.Search in Google Scholar

Crystal, David. 1998. Language play. London: Penguin Books.Search in Google Scholar

Curcó, Carmen. 1995. Some observations on the pragmatics of humorous interpretations. A relevance–theoretic approach. UCL Working papers in linguistics 7. 27–47.Search in Google Scholar

Dor, Daniel. 2003. On newspaper headlines as relevance optimizers. Journal of Pragmatics 35. 675–721. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0378-2166(02)00134-0.Search in Google Scholar

Duanmu, San. 2000. The phonology of Standard Chinese. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Search in Google Scholar

Dynel, Marta. 2008. No aggression, only teasing: The pragmatics of teasing and banter. Lodz Papers in Pragmatics 4(2). 241–261. https://doi.org/10.2478/v10016-008-0001-7.Search in Google Scholar

Dynel, Marta. 2009. Beyond a joke: Types of conversational humour. Language and Linguistics Compass 3. 1284–1299. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-818x.2009.00152.x.Search in Google Scholar

Dynel, Marta. 2010. How do puns bear relevance. In Marta Kisielewska-Krysiuk, Agnieszka Piskorska & Ewa Wałaszewska (eds.), Relevance studies in Poland, vol. 3, 105–124. Warsaw: University of Warsaw Press.Search in Google Scholar

Dżereń–Głowacka, Sylwia. 2012. Formal and conceptual blending in Terry Pratchett’s discworld. Selected Papers from UK–CLA Meetings 1. 193–208.Search in Google Scholar

Escandell Vidal, Victoria. 1996. Towards a cognitive approach to politeness. Language Sciences 18. 629–650. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0388-0001(96)00039-3.Search in Google Scholar

Escandell Vidal, Victoria. 1998. Politeness: A relevant issue for relevance theory. Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses 11. 45–57. https://doi.org/10.14198/raei.1998.11.05.Search in Google Scholar

Escandell Vidal, Victoria. 2004. Norms and principles. Putting social and cognitive pragmatics together. In Rosina Márquez-Reiter & Maria-Elena Placencia (eds.), Current trends in the pragmatics of Spanish, 347–371. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.Search in Google Scholar

Giora, Rachel. 2003. On our mind: Salience, context, and figurative language. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Search in Google Scholar

Goddard, Angela. 1998. The language of advertising. London: Routledge.Search in Google Scholar

Hall, Edward T. 1976. Beyond culture. New York: Doubleday.Search in Google Scholar

Hempelmann, Christian F. 2014. Puns. In Salvatore Attardo (ed.), Encyclopedia of humor studies, vol. 2, 612–615. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.Search in Google Scholar

Jary, Mark. 1998. Relevance theory and the communication of politeness. Journal of Pragmatics 30. 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0378-2166(98)80005-2.Search in Google Scholar

Jodłowiec, Maria. 2015. The challenges of explicit and implicit communication. A relevance–theoretic approach. Berlin: Peter Lang.Search in Google Scholar

Koestler, Arthur. 1964. Act of creation. London: Hutchinson.Search in Google Scholar

Ladilova, Anna & Ulrike Schröder. 2022. Humor in intercultural interaction: A source for misunderstanding or a common ground builder? A multimodal analysis. Intercultural Pragmatics 19(1). 71–101. https://doi.org/10.1515/ip-2022-0003.Search in Google Scholar

Lamb, Charles. [1823] 1913. The essays of Elia and Eliana, 345–346. London: G. Bell and Sons.Search in Google Scholar

Ling, Yuan (ed.). 2002. The Contemporary Chinese dictionary (Chinese English Edition). Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press.Search in Google Scholar

Lundmark, Carita. 2003. Puns and blending: The case of print advertisements. Paper presented at the 8th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. Logroño, 20–25 July 2003. Available at: https://wwwling.arts.kuleuven.be/iclc/Papers/Lundmark.pdf.Search in Google Scholar

McArthur, Tom (ed.). 1992. The Oxford companion to the English language. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Search in Google Scholar

Malinowski, Bronisław. 1943. The problem of meaning in primitive languages. In Charles K. Ogden & Ivor A. Richards (eds.), The meaning of meaning, 6th edn., 296–336. New York: Harcourt Brace.Search in Google Scholar

Nerhardt, Göran. 1976. Incongruity and funniness: Toward a new descriptive model. In Anthony J. Chapman & Hugh C. Foot (eds.), Humour and laughter: Theory, research and applications, 55–62. London: John Wiley & Sons.Search in Google Scholar

Norrick, Neal. 1984. Stock conversational witticisms. Journal of Pragmatics 8. 195–209. https://doi.org/10.1016/0378-2166(84)90049-3.Search in Google Scholar

Norrick, Neal. 1993. Conversational joking: Humor in everyday talk. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.Search in Google Scholar

Norrick, Neal. 1994. Involvement and joking in conversation. Journal of Pragmatics 22. 409–430. https://doi.org/10.1016/0378-2166(94)90117-1.Search in Google Scholar

Norrick, Neal. 2003. Issues in conversational joking. Journal of Pragmatics 35. 1333–1359. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0378-2166(02)00180-7.Search in Google Scholar

Padilla Cruz, Manuel. 2005. On the phatic interpretation of utterances: A complementary relevance–theoretic approach. Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses 18. 227–246. https://doi.org/10.14198/raei.2005.18.11.Search in Google Scholar

Padilla Cruz, Manuel. 2007a. Metarepresentations and phatic utterances: A pragmatic proposal about the generation of solidarity between interlocutors. In Piotr Cap & Joanna Nijakowska (eds.), Current trends in pragmatics, 110–128. New Castle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.Search in Google Scholar

Padilla Cruz, Manuel. 2007b. Phatic utterances and the communication of social information: A relevance–theoretic approach. In Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, Manuel Padilla Cruz, Reyes Gómez Morón & Lucia Fernández Amaya (eds.), Studies in intercultural, cognitive and social pragmatics, 114–131. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.Search in Google Scholar

Padilla Cruz, Manuel. 2015. On the role of epistemic vigilance in the interpretation of puns. Humor 28(3). 469–490.Search in Google Scholar

Park, Alan. 2012. Top 5 Jeremy Lin Puns in China and Taiwan. FluentU. Mandarin Chinese Language and Culture Blog https://www.fluentu.com/blog/chinese/5-chinese-jeremy-lin-puns/ (accessed 29 October 2022).Search in Google Scholar

Piskorska, Agnieszka. 2017. Perlocutionary effects and relevance theory. In Manuel Padilla Cruz (ed.), Relevance theory: Recent developments, current challenges and future directions, 287–305. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.Search in Google Scholar

Piskorska, Agnieszka & Maria Jodłowiec. 2018. Weak communication, joke targets and the punch–line effect: A relevance–theoretic account. Studies in Polish Linguistics 13(1). 25–44.Search in Google Scholar

Raskin, Victor. 1985. Semantic mechanisms of humor. Dordrecht – Boston – Lancaster: D. Reidel.Search in Google Scholar

Raskin, Victor & Salvattore Attardo. 1991. Script theory revis(it)ed: Joke similarity and joke representation model. Humor – International Journal of Humor Research 4(3/4). 293–348. https://doi.org/10.1515/humr.1991.4.3-4.293.Search in Google Scholar

Solska, Agnieszka. 2012a. Relevance-theoretic comprehension procedure and processing multiple meanings in paradigmatic puns. In Ewa Wałaszewska & Agnieszka Piskorska (eds.), Relevance theory: More than understanding, 167–182. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.Search in Google Scholar

Solska, Agnieszka. 2012b. The relevance-based model of context in processing puns. Research in Language 10(4). 387–404. https://doi.org/10.2478/v10015-012-0001-0.Search in Google Scholar

Solska, Agnieszka. 2012c. The relevance of the juxtaposition of meanings in puns. In Waldemar Skrzypczak, Tomasz Fojt & Sławomir Wacewicz (eds.), Exploring language through contrast, 184–200. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.Search in Google Scholar

Solska, Agnieszka. 2017. Degrees of ‘punniness’? A relevance-theoretic account of puns and pun-like utterances. In Agnieszka Piskorska & Ewa Wałaszewska (eds.), Applications of relevance theory: From discourse to morphemes, 198–222. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.Search in Google Scholar

Solska, Agnieszka. 2019. “Shuangguan”: Linguistic and cultural aspects of the Chinese art of punning. In Agnieszka Solska & Ireneusz Kida (eds.), Oriental encounters: Language, society, culture, 51–66. Katowice: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego.Search in Google Scholar

Solska, Agnieszka. 2020. Tropes of Ill repute: Puns and (often thwarted) expectations of relevance. In Agnieszka Piskorska (ed.), Relevance theory, figuration and continuity in pragmatics, 259–287. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing.Search in Google Scholar

Solska, Agnieszka. 2021. The functions of punning utterances in English and Chinese. Beiträge zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Sprachwissenschaft 10. 175–199.Search in Google Scholar

Solska, Agnieszka & Arkadiusz Rojczyk. 2015. Appreciation of purposive ambiguity: The relevance of puns in city promotional slogans. In Danuta Gabryś-Barker (ed.), Topics in applied psycholinguistics, 61–80. Katowice: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego.Search in Google Scholar

Sperber, Dan & Deirdre Wilson. 1986/1995. Relevance: Communication and cognition. Oxford: Blackwell.Search in Google Scholar

Suls, Jerry M. 1972. A two–stage model for the appreciation of jokes and cartoons: An information–processing analysis. In Jeffrey H. Goldstein & Paul E. McGhee (eds.), The psychology of humor: Theoretical perspectives and empirical issues, 81–100. New York: Academic Press.Search in Google Scholar

Suls, Jerry M. 1983. Cognitive processes in humor appreciation. In Paul E. McGhee & Jeffrey H. Goldstein (eds.), Handbook of humor research Vol. 1: Basic issues, 39–57. New York: Springer–Verlag.Search in Google Scholar

Tanaka, Keiko. 1992. The pun in advertising. Lingua 87. 91–103. https://doi.org/10.1016/0024-3841(92)90027-g.Search in Google Scholar

Tanaka, Keiko. 1994. Advertising language: A pragmatic approach to advertisements in Britain and Japan. London: Routledge.Search in Google Scholar

van Mulken, Margot, Renske van Enschot–van Dijk & Hans Hoeken. 2005. Puns, relevance and appreciation in advertisements. Journal of Pragmatics 37. 707–721. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2004.09.008.Search in Google Scholar

Watts, Richard J. 1989. Relevance and relational work: Linguistic politeness as politic behaviour. Multilingua 8(2/3). 131–166. https://doi.org/10.1515/mult.1989.8.2-3.131.Search in Google Scholar

Watts, Richard J. 2003. Politeness. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Search in Google Scholar

Wharton, Tim & Claudia Strey. 2019. Slave of the passions: Making emotions relevant. In Kate Scott, Billy Clark & Robyn Carston (eds.), Relevance, pragmatics and interpretation, 253–266. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Search in Google Scholar

Yus, Francisco. 2003. Humor and the search for relevance. Journal of Pragmatics 35. 1295–1331. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0378-2166(02)00179-0.Search in Google Scholar

Yus, Francisco. 2013. An inference-centered analysis of jokes: The Intersecting Circles Model of humorous communication. In Leonor Ruiz Gurillo, Leonor Ruiz & M. Belén Alvarado Ortega (eds.), Irony and humor: From pragmatics to discourse, 59–82. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.Search in Google Scholar

Yus, Francisco. 2016. Humor and relevance. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.Search in Google Scholar

Žegarac, Vlad. 1998. What is phatic communication? In Villy Rouchota & Andreas H. Jucker (eds.), Current issues in relevance theory, 327–361. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.Search in Google Scholar

Žegarac, Vlad & Billy Clark. 1999. Phatic interpretations and phatic communication. Journal of Linguistics 35. 321–346. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022226799007628.Search in Google Scholar