25 results for "humour"
- Responses to English compliments on language ability: A cross‑generational study of Saudi Arabian university female students and lecturersRanda Saleh Maine Alharbi, Pat Strauss & Lynn Grant | PRAG 34:1 (2023) pp. 1–27 | Article
- Didn’t she say to you, “Oh my God! In Pafos?”: Hypothetical quotations in everyday conversationConstantina Fotiou | PRAG 34:1 (2023) p. 81 | Article
- ‘It seems my enemy is about having malaria’: The sociocultural context of verbal irony in NigeriaFelix Nwabeze Ogoanah | PRAG 34:2 (2023) pp. 215–237 | Article
- Nigerian stand-up comediennes performing femininity: A pragmatic analysisIbukun Filani | PRAG 33:2 (2022) pp. 209–236 | Article
- Hong Kong Cantonese TV talk shows: When code-switching manifests as impolitenessCher Leng Lee & Daoning Zhu | PRAG 33:2 (2022) pp. 237–259 | Article
- Non-literal uses of proper names in XYZ constructions: A relevance theory perspectiveEwa Wałaszewska | PRAG 33:3 (2023) pp. 368–392 | Article
- Deceptive clickbaits in the relevance-theoretic lens: What makes them similar to punchlinesMaria Jodłowiec | PRAG 33:3 (2022) pp. 418–435 | Article
- Taboo vocatives in the language of London teenagersIgnacio M. Palacios Martínez | PRAG 31:2 (2020) pp. 250–277 | Article
- A relevance-theoretic account of translating jokes with sexual innuendos in Modern Family into
SpanishFrancisco Javier Díaz-Pérez | PRAG 31:3 (2021) pp. 331–356 | Article
- Power and socialization in sibling interaction: Establishing, accepting and resisting roles of socialization target and agentJana Declercq | PRAG 31:4 (2021) pp. 509–532 | Article
- The pragmatics of ritual: An introductionDániel Z. Kádár & Juliane House | PRAG 30:1 (2020) pp. 1–14 | Article
- The socialisation of interactional rituals: A case study of ritual cursing as a form of teasing in RomaniDániel Z. Kádár & Andrea Szalai | PRAG 30:1 (2019) pp. 15–39 | Article
- Emotions through texts and images: A multimodal analysis of reactions to the Brexit vote on FlickrCatherine Bouko | PRAG 30:2 (2020) pp. 222–246 | Article
- Parliamentary impoliteness and the interpreter’s genderMagdalena Bartłomiejczyk | PRAG 30:4 (2019) pp. 459–484 | Article
- Appraising and reappraising of compliments and the provision of responses: Automatic and non-automatic reactionsMostafa Morady Moghaddam | PRAG 29:3 (2019) pp. 410–435 | Article
- Impolite viewer responses in Arabic political TV talk shows on YouTubeBahaa-eddin A. Hassan | PRAG 29:4 (2019) pp. 521–544 | Article
- Vicissitudes of laughter: Managing interlocutor affiliation in talk about humanitarian aidKevin McKenzie | PRAG 27:2 (2017) pp. 257–300 | Article
- Mocking fakeness: Performance, phonetic aspiration and ethnic humourMia Halonen & Sari Pietikäinen | PRAG 27:4 (2017) pp. 507–528 | Article
- The question of politeness in political interviewsMarcia Macaulay | PRAG 27:4 (2017) pp. 529–552 | Article
- On the nature of “laughables”: Laughter as a response to overdone figurative phrasesElizabeth Holt | PRAG 21:3 (2011) pp. 393–410 | Article
- The dialectics of interpersonal relating in a sports teamNicholas Hugman | Published online 28 April 2025 | Article
- Metaphor-based zeugmas in web-based promotional tourism discourse: A formal-functional studyNazi Iritspukhova | Published online 18 August 2025 | Article
- The pragmatics of emotion in socio-cultural contexts: A model for the analysis of David Bowie’s spontaneous memorial in LondonLaura Hidalgo-Downing | Published online 31 October 2025 | Article
- A pragmatic typology of WhatsApp sticker functionsEsther Linares Bernabéu & Francisco Yus | Published online 15 December 2025 | Article
- Beyond interruptions: Co-constructed activities in MPs’ unofficial turns in Finnish, French, and German parliamentary debatesJohanna Isosävi, Heike Baldauf-Quilliatre, Christophe Gagne & Eero Voutilainen | Published online 26 May 2026 | Article