Analyzing language and humor in online communication

Rotimi Taiwo, Akinola Odebunmi, and Akin Adetunji, editors

"This book presents a compendium of research into virtual communities, online communication, social networks, and the ways that language, and humor in particular, are being conveyed and understood in these digital environments"--Provided by publisher.

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Year of publication:	[2016]
Other Persons:	Taiwo, Rotimi (ed.) ; Odebunmi, Akinola (ed.) ; Adetunji, Akin (ed.)
Publisher:	Hershey, Pennsylvania : IGI Global
Subject:	Sprache \| Language \| Kommunikation \| Communication \| Humor \| Mehrsprachigkeit \| Multilingualism \| Werbewirkung \| Advertising effects \| Internet \| Social Media

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Extent:	Online-Ressource (PDFs (324 pages))
Series:	Advances in linguistics and communication studies (ALCS) book series
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers Mode of access: World Wide Web Searching for humor in dehumanization: American sitcoms, the Internet, and the globalization of Holocaust parodies / Jeffrey Demsky -- Negotiation of wit in Facebook humour / Akin Odebunmi, Simeon Ajiboye -- More than a joking matter: humor and political engagement in Ogas at the top / Funmi Olubode-Sawe -- Speaking in the free marketplace of ideas: the stylistics of humour in "blogversations" / Bimbola Idowu-Faith -- Communicative content of selected visual construction of humour on Facebook: a visual social semiotic analysis / Ibrahim Esan Olaosun -- A rhetoric of visual humor on Facebook / Wincharles Coker, Stephen Kwame Dadugblor -- A linguistic analysis of Klint Da Drunk's "Alcoholic" talk show / Faleye James Oladunjoye -- Language and humour in Cameroon social media / Camilla Arundie Tabe -- "Can I get in on the joke, too?": analysing racial humor within the public/private realm of the Internet / Frederick W. Gooding Jr. -- Discursive power relations in naijabookofjokes.com / Rotimi Taiwo -- Pragmatics of humour in a Nigerian university's departmental chat rooms / Onwu Inya -- Stand-up comedy and addressivity: the example of Joan Rivers / Akin Adetunji -- Humour in visual-verbal code-pairing in selected comments on the facebook forum / M. T. Lamidi -- Socio-semiotics of humour in ebola awareness discourse on Facebook / Lily Chimuanya, Esther Ajiboye -- Contextual beliefs and pragmatic strategies in online humour: an example of Akpos jokes / Oluwatomi Adeoti, Ibukun Filani Also available in print.
ISBN:	978-1-5225-0339-2 ; 978-1-5225-0338-5 ; 1-5225-0338-2
Other identifiers:	10.4018/978-1-5225-0338-5 [DOI]
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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