El humor verbal frente a los procedimientos de face-work

Authors

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12797/SI.19.2020.19.01

Keywords:

verbal humour, politeness, face-work, interpersonal relationships, interactional linguistics

Abstract

The objective of the study is to analyze some peculiarities of verbal humour from the perspective of the so-called face-work (Brown and Levinson, 1978; 1987). The concept of interactional positioning refers to certain questions about the relationship between humorous practices and the (re)configuration of interpersonal territory. Hence, the extent to which manifestations of verbal humour as jokes or ritual insults can be ‘threatening’ or ‘valorizing’ to the faces of the interlocutors is explored. The situational and contextual parameters that may jeopardize the development of interaction are also reflected on.

PlumX Metrics of this article

References

ABRIL, G. (1980), “Cómo gastar bromas”, Reis: Revista española de investigaciones sociológicas, 11, pp. 75-89, https://doi.org/10.2307/40182821. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/40182821

ACUÑA FERREIRA, A. V. (2012), “The Humorous Display of Transgressor Femininities: ʻSharing a Laughʼ in Spanish/Galician Friendly Talk Among Young Women”, Sociolinguistic Studies, 6 (1), pp. 121-147, https://doi.org/10.1558/sols.v6i1.121. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1558/sols.v6i1.121

ALVARADO ORTEGA, M. B. (2013), “Failed Humor in Conversational Utterances in Spanish: A Matter of (Im)Politeness”, en: Ruiz Gurillo, L., Alvarado Ortega, M. B. (eds.), Irony and Humor: From Pragmatics to Discourse, John Benjamins, Amsterdam, pp. 191-217, https://doi. org/10.1075/pbns.231.12alv. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.231.12alv

ALVARADO ORTEGA, M. B. (2016), “Variability, Adaptability and Negotiability in Conversational Humor: A Question of Gender”, en: Ruiz Gurillo, L. (ed.), Metapragmatics of Humor: Current Research Trends, John Benjamins, Amsterdam, pp. 192-214, https://doi.org/10.1075/ivitra.14. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/ivitra.14

ATTARDO, S., RASKIN, V. (1991), “Script Theory Revis(it)ed: Joke Similarity and Joke Representation model”, Humor, 4 (3-4), pp. 293-347, https://doi.org/10.1515/humr.1991.4.3-4.293. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/humr.1991.4.3-4.293

ATTARDO, S. (2008), “A Primer for the Linguistics of Humor”, en: Raskin, V. (ed.), The Primer of Humor Research, Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin–Boston, pp. 101-155, https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110198492.101. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110198492.101

BOLAÑO CARPIO, A. (2015), “La risa y los actos amenazantes de imagen”, Revista de Filología y Lingüística de la Universidad de Costa Rica, 41 (2), pp. 149-160, https://doi.org/10.15517/rfl.v41i2.26118. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15517/rfl.v41i2.26118

BROWN, P., LEVINSON, S. C. (1978), “Universals in Language Usage: Politeness Phenomena”, en: Goody, E. (ed.), Questions and Politeness. Strategies in Social Interaction, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 56-289.

BROWN, P., LEVINSON, S. C. (1987), Politeness. Some Universals in Language Usage, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511813085

EGGINS, S., SLADE, D. (1997), Interactional Ritual, Doubleday, Garden City (NY).

GOFFMAN, E. (1967), Interaction Ritual: Essays on Face-to-Face Behavior, Anchor Books, New York, https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203788387. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203788387

GOFFMAN, E. (1971), La presentación de la persona en la vida cotidiana, Amorrortu Editores, Buenos Aires.

GOFFMAN, E. (1981), Forms of Talk, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, https://doi.org/ 10.1177/0261927X8400300204.

GRICE, H. P. (1975), “Logic and Conversation, Syntax and Semantics”, en: Cole, P., Morgan, J. (eds.), Speech Acts, vol. 3, Academic Press, New York, pp. 41-52.

KAPFERER, B. (1972), Strategy and Transaction in African Factory, Manchester University Press, Manchester.

KASPER, G. (1990), “Linguistic Politeness: Current Research”, Journal of Pragmatics, 14, pp. 193-218, https://doi.org/10.1016/ 0378-2166(90)90080-W. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/0378-2166(90)90080-W

KERBRAT-ORECCHIONI, C. (2005), Le discours en interaction, Armand Colin, Paris.

LAKOFF, R. (1973), “The Logic of Politeness or Minding your p’s and q’s”, en: Colum, C. et al. (eds.), Papers from the Ninth Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, Chicago Linguistic Society, Chicago, pp. 292-305.

LAKOFF, R. (1975), Language and Woman’s Place, Harper and Row, New York, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404500000051. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404500000051

LEECH, G. N. (1983), Principles of Pragmatics, Longman, London, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315835976. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315835976

LOCHER, M. A. (2013), “Relational Work and Interpersonal Pragmatics”, Journal of Pragmatics, 58, pp. 145-149, https://doi.org/10.1016/j. pragma.2013.09.014.

NATOLI, C. (2009), El humor: Un recurso para expresar lo que realmente pensamos. Estudio sobre conversaciones coloquiales en español, Tesis de Licenciatura, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, [on-line] http://www.memoria.fahce.unlp.edu.ar/tesis/te.993/te.993.pdf, 3.02.2020 OROPEZA-ESCOBAR, M. (2011), Represented Discourse, Resonance and Stance in Joking Interaction in Mexican Spanish, John Benjamins, Amsterdam, https://doi.org/ 10.1075/pbns.204.

PRIEGO-VALVERDE, B. (2003), L’humour dans la conversation familière: description et analyse linguistiques, L’Harmattan, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2005.05.005. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2005.05.005

RUIZ GURRILLO, L. (2014), “Infiriendo el humor. Un modelo de análisis para el español”, Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación, 59, pp. 148-162, https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_CLAC.2014.v59.46712. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_CLAC.2014.v59.46712

RUIZ GURRILLO, L. (2019), “El humor como hecho pragmático en español”, Revista de Investigación Lingüística, 22, pp. 183-198, https://doi. org/10.6018/ril.381161.

SZEFLIŃSKA-BARAN, M. (2012), L’humour dans la communication – la communication de l’humour. Etude sociopragmatique du fonctionnement intra- et interlingual de l’humour verbal, Łódź, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego.

TORRES SANCHEZ, M. A. (1999), Estudio pragmático del humor verbal, Universidad de Cádiz – Servicio de Publicaciones, Cádiz.

TSAKONA, V. (2017), “Genres of Humor”, en: Attardo, S. (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Language and Humour, Routledge, Abingdon, pp. 489-503, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315731162.ch3.

VEGA, C. (1993), “En torno al humor situacional. La amenaza como ficción humorística”, DICENDA. Cuadernos de Filología Hispánica, 11, pp. 333-352.

VERSCHUEREN, J. (1999), Understanding Pragmatics, Arnold, London, htps://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404501231054.

VION, R. (1995), “La gestion pluridimensionnelle du dialogue”, Cahiers de Linguistique Française, 17, pp. 179-203.

VION, R. (1995a), “Le sujet et l’espace interactif”, en: Véronique, D.,

Vion, R. (eds.), Des savoir-faire communicationnels, Publications de l’Université de Provence, Aix-en-Provence, pp. 267-280.

YUS, F. (2016), Humor and Relevance, John Benjamins, Amsterdam, https://doi.org/10.1075/thr.4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/thr.4

YUS, F. (2020), “Pragmatics and Humor in Spanish Research”, en: Koike, D. A., Félix-Brásdefer, J. C. (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Pragmatics. Foundations and Interfaces, Routledge, Abingdon, pp. 403-420, https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429455643. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429455643

Downloads

Published

2020-12-19

How to Cite

Szeflińska-Baran, Magdalena, and Marek Baran. 2020. “El Humor Verbal Frente a Los Procedimientos De Face-Work”. Studia Iberica (Studia Iberystyczne) 19 (December):7-25. https://doi.org/10.12797/SI.19.2020.19.01.