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The role of humorous elements in Cádiz chirigotas in creating/reinforcing a local identity: A relevance-theoretic approach
(John Benjamins Publishing, 2021)
This paper adopts a relevance-theoretic perspective to analyse how chirigotas –one of the types of bands in Cadiz carnival– exploit a series of verbal and visual comic elements in order to create or reinforce local ...
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Evidential participles and epistemic vigilance
(John Benjamins, 2020)
For communicated contents to be accepted by the audience, they have to pass the filters of epistemic vigilance mechanisms, which check the credibility and reliability of communicators and the information provided. Communicators ...
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Towards a relevance-theoretic approach to the diminutive morpheme
(2020)
This paper intends to lay the foundations for a relevance-theoretic approach to the diminutive morpheme. In many languages, this morpheme is attached to nouns, adjectives, adverbs or verbs. It frequently nuances their ...
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Dialogical humour in evening service encounters in the hospitality industry in Seville, Spain
(Brill, 2022)
Given that humour greatly impacts customer satisfaction and loyalty, this paper explores thedialogical forms of humour occurring in evening service encounters. It reports on a studyfocusing on interactions between baristas ...
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Is free enrichment always free? Revisiting ad hoc-concept construction
(2021)
In relevance-theoretic pragmatics, lexical adjustment, or ad hoc-concept construction, is considered a case of free pragmatic enrichment. It is hence included within the group of non-linguistically mandated processes ...
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Joke identification, comprehension and appreciation by Spanish intermediate ESL learners: an exploratory study
(International Society for Humor Studies, 2022)
This paper reports on an exploratory study examining joke identification, appreciation and comprehension by Spanish intermediate ESL learners. The study is based on a relevance-theoretic classification of jokes, which ...