Alexander Brock
List of John Benjamins publications for which Alexander Brock plays a role.
Articles
2015 Participation frameworks and participation in televised sitcom, candid camera and stand-up comedy Participation in Public and Social Media Interactions, Dynel, Marta and Jan Chovanec (eds.), pp. 27–47 | Article
In order to reconstruct the participation frameworks of three TV comedy subgenres,
this article follows the common differentiation into the fictitious characters’
communication and the discourse between a comedy’s production crew
and the television audience. The TV viewer is conceptualised as the… read more
2012 Historical evidence of communicative maxims Investigations into the Meta-Communicative Lexicon of English: A contribution to historical pragmatics, Busse, Ulrich and Axel Hübler (eds.), pp. 271–288 | Article
2011 Chapter 14. Bumcivilian: Systemic aspects of humorous communication in comedies Telecinematic Discourse: Approaches to the language of films and television series, Piazza, Roberta, Monika Bednarek and Fabio Rossi (eds.), pp. 263–280 | Article
In television comedies, the system of the English language, defined here as a set of choices from conventionalised language elements (Halliday 1994: xxvi) is used to create humour. From this perspective, humorous communication first appears as a phenomenon of instantiation (Halliday and Matthiessen… read more