Full Title: The 19th International Pragmatics Conference - Panel: Theorising Conversational Humour: Implications For Pragmatics

Date: 22-Jun-2025 - 27-Jun-2025
Location: University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Contact Person: Nicholas Hugman
Meeting Email: [email protected]

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics

Meeting Description:

Call for Papers:

We are organising a panel at IPRA 2025 in Brisbane which focuses on theoretical issues in the study of conversational humour. We are looking for theoretical contributions which address some of the following concerns (this list is not exhaustive):

- The relationship between conversational humour, speaker meaning, inference and social action
- The negotiation and co-construction of conversational humour in social interaction
- How humour relates to (im)politeness, identity and relationships
- Analytical differences between related terminologies, such as play, (non)seriousness, joking and kidding
- The theoretical distinction between humour competence and humour performance

We are seeking contributions from any scholars who have contributions to the theorisation of conversational humour. If you are interested in contributing, please email [email protected]

Organisers:

Nicholas Hugman, Michael Haugh, Béatrice Priego-Valverde