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LingBaWAdvancing the proposal that conversationalists frequently engage in humorous communication to convey propositional meanings, the paper aims to employ pragmatic inferential mechanisms specified in a relevance-theoretic framework in order to explicate the
Magdalena Wieczorek
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Social Policy &Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Verbal communication between bureaucrats and citizens crucially determines the dynamics and outcomes of public encounters. However, so far, scholars have not sought to quantitively measure it, which limits our knowledge of the role language plays in shaping interactions between bureaucrats and clients.
Steffen Eckhard, Laurin Friedrich
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PRAGMATIC PERSPECTIVES OF VERBAL HUMOR IN THE BIG BANG THEORY [PDF]
, 2018 Keywords: Pragmatic, Illocutionary Acts, Maxim Flouting, Sitcom, HumorThis study aimed at finding out the types of illocutionary acts which creates humor effect in the sitcom The Big Bang Theory episode The Thespian Catalyst (S04E14).
FARRAH FAJRIANTI F
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Adrift or ashore? Desert Island Discs and celebrity culture [PDF]
, 2017 Why do we want to imagine celebrities as adrift, as banished from the rest of the world, and yet, at the same time, to find out more about them? The idea of celebrities as 'intimate strangers', with the media providing us with privileged access to the ...
Littler, J.
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Fossil Hegemony and Capitalist Realism in Tropic of Orange
Future Humanities, Volume 4, Issue 1, May 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange (1997) through the lens of Mark Fisher's influential concept ‘capitalist realism’. Scholars of petrofiction have pointed to a political ambivalence in the representation of fossil fuels, where a better understanding of fossil capital can overwhelm as much as galvanize.
Claire Ravenscroft
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Roman comedy and TV fiction: Plautus and sitcom [PDF]
, 2011 Este trabajo ofrece un análisis comparativo de las características propias de la comedia palliata de Plauto (comediógrafo romano del siglo II a.C.) y de los elementos definitorios de la sitcom, género televisivo de gran aceptación popular.
López Gregoris, Rosario +1 more
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Brazilian English Language Teaching Journal, 2021 Devido à importância de se aprender a usar a língua em diversas situações, sitcoms podem ajudar no desenvolvimento da competência pragmática, por sua linguagem contextualizada e semelhante à vida real.
Cezar, Leticia Mello
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Social and Personality Psychology Compass, Volume 20, Issue 1, January 2026.ABSTRACT Volitional reconsumption—the deliberate choice to rewatch movies and television episodes already seen—is an increasingly common and economically significant form of contemporary media use enabled by on‐demand and mobile streaming. This article synthesizes research tracing how reconsumption has evolved from broadcast‐era reruns to a ...
Karen E. Shackleford +4 more
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Discourse Markers Used in Short Series Movie ‘Friends' and Its Relation with English Language Teaching [PDF]
, 2016 Language is primarily speech. This paper discusses discourse markers. They are used for various purposes like to create a smooth flow of thoughts and to make the interlocutors easily understand.
Sada, C. (Clarry) +2 more
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Making fun of the standard tongue: Enregisterment, social difference, and Kurdish language humor
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 35, Issue 3, December 2025.Abstract This article analyzes how humor around contrasts between standard and non‐standard Northern, i.e., Kurmanji, Kurdish spoken in Turkey contributes to the enregisterment of standard Kurdish, arguing that Kurdish language jokes promote the recognition and, to different degrees, uptake of standardized linguistic repertoires among differently ...
Patrick C. Lewis
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