Dialogical strategies in replies to offensive humour

IF 0.8 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Language and Dialogue Pub Date : 2019-07-12 DOI:10.1075/LD.00039.CAN

Carla Canestrari, Amadeu Viana

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Abstract

The aim of this paper is to determine whether humour can be used as a discursive strategy to reply to offensive humour about natural disasters and what purpose it serves. A corpus of 431 replies to the Charlie Hebdo cartoons concerning the earthquake in central Italy in August 2016 was analysed. Depending on the target of the humour in these replies, they were used to agree, disagree or deflect away from the offensive and aggressive content of the cartoons. The results show that humour can be used as a discursive strategy to respond to offensive humour. Moreover, an analysis of the corpus revealed that humorous replies were used mainly to agree rather than disagree with the cartoons.

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应对攻击性幽默的对话策略

本文的目的是确定幽默是否可以作为一种话语策略来回应关于自然灾害的攻击性幽默以及它的目的是什么。对《查理周刊》关于2016年8月意大利中部地震的漫画的431个回复进行了分析。根据这些回复中幽默的目标，他们被用来同意、不同意或转移对漫画中攻击性和攻击性内容的注意力。结果表明，幽默可以作为一种话语策略来应对攻击性幽默。此外，对语料库的分析表明，幽默的回答主要用于同意而不是不同意漫画。

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期刊介绍： In our post-Cartesian times human abilities are regarded as integrated and interacting abilities. Speaking, thinking, perceiving, having emotions need to be studied in interaction. Integration and interaction take place in dialogue. Scholars are called upon to go beyond reductive methods of abstraction and division and to take up the challenge of coming to terms with the complex whole. The conclusions drawn from reasoning about human behaviour in the humanities and social sciences have finally been proven by experiments in the natural sciences, especially neurology and sociobiology. What happens in the black box, can now, at least in part, be made visible. The journal intends to be an explicitly interdisciplinary journal reaching out to any discipline dealing with human abilities on the basis of consilience or the unity of knowledge. It is the challenge of post-Cartesian science to tackle the issue of how body, mind and language are interconnected and dialogically put to action. The journal invites papers which deal with ‘language and dialogue’ as an integrated whole in different languages and cultures and in different areas: everyday, institutional and literary, in theory and in practice, in business, in court, in the media, in politics and academia. In particular the humanities and social sciences are addressed: linguistics, literary studies, pragmatics, dialogue analysis, communication and cultural studies, applied linguistics, business studies, media studies, studies of language and the law, philosophy, psychology, cognitive sciences, sociology, anthropology and others. The journal Language and Dialogue is a peer reviewed journal and associated with the book series Dialogue Studies, edited by Edda Weigand.