Aus unseren Neuerwerbungen – Sprachen und Literaturen allgemein 2025.1

The prag­mat­ics of humour in inter­ac­tive con­texts
Recent years have seen a bur­geon­ing inter­est in inter­ac­tion­al humour from social and prag­mat­ic per­spec­tives, with fas­ci­nat­ing results. Released more than a decade lat­er than Nor­rick and Chiaro (2009). Humor in Inter­ac­tion, The Prag­mat­ics of Humour in Inter­ac­tive Con­texts gath­ers some of the most recent work on humour in inter­ac­tion, with con­tri­bu­tions tak­ing (meta)pragmatic approach­es to the analy­sis of var­i­ous gen­res of inter­ac­tive humour in both online and offline set­tings. This vol­ume illus­trates that a range of method­olo­gies and per­spec­tives can be applied to the study of such a com­plex phe­nom­e­non. These include analy­ses with a cog­ni­tive ori­en­ta­tion and with mul­ti­modal approach­es, work based on Rel­e­vance The­o­ry, the Gen­er­al The­o­ry of Ver­bal Humour, and Con­ver­sa­tion Analy­sis, among oth­ers. In addi­tion, all the authors rep­re­sent­ed here are recog­nised experts on the sub­ject, and in most cas­es, are lead­ing spe­cial­ists in their respec­tive fields. The book can be of use not only to schol­ars who study the lin­guis­tics of humour in inter­ac­tion but also to stu­dents who wish to pur­sue research in the area.
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Read­ing Auto­bi­og­ra­phy Now: An Updat­ed Guide for Inter­pret­ing Life Nar­ra­tives
A user-friend­ly guide to read­ing, writ­ing, and the­o­riz­ing auto­bi­o­graph­i­cal texts and prac­tices for stu­dents, schol­ars, and prac­ti­tion­ers of life nar­ra­tive.
The boom in auto­bi­o­graph­i­cal nar­ra­tives con­tin­ues apace. It now encom­pass­es a glob­al spec­trum of texts and prac­tices in such media as graph­ic mem­oir, auto-pho­tog­ra­phy, per­for­mance and plas­tic arts, film and video, and online plat­forms. Read­ing Auto­bi­og­ra­phy Now offers both a crit­i­cal engage­ment with life nar­ra­tive in his­tor­i­cal per­spec­tive and a the­o­ret­i­cal frame­work for inter­pret­ing texts and prac­tices in this wide-rang­ing field. Hailed upon its ini­tial pub­li­ca­tion as “the Whole Earth Cat­a­log of auto­bi­og­ra­phy stud­ies,” this essen­tial book has been updat­ed, reor­ga­nized, and expand­ed in scope to serve as an acces­si­ble and con­tem­po­rary guide for schol­ars, stu­dents, and prac­ti­tion­ers.
Sidonie Smith and Julia Wat­son explore def­i­n­i­tions of life nar­ra­tive, probe issues of sub­jec­tiv­i­ty, and out­line salient fea­tures of auto­bi­o­graph­i­cal acts and prac­tices. In this updat­ed edi­tion, they address emer­gent top­ics such as autothe­o­ry, aut­ofic­tion, and autoethnog­ra­phy; expand the dis­cus­sions of iden­ti­ty, rela­tion­al­i­ty, and agency; and intro­duce new mate­r­i­al on auto­bi­o­graph­i­cal archives and the pro­fu­sion of “I”s in con­tem­po­rary works. Smith and Wat­son also pro­vide a help­ful toolk­it of strate­gies for read­ing life nar­ra­tive and an exten­sive glos­sary of mini-essays ana­lyz­ing key the­o­ret­i­cal con­cepts and dozens of auto­bi­o­graph­i­cal gen­res.
An indis­pens­able explo­ration of this expan­sive, transna­tion­al, mul­ti­me­dia field, Read­ing Auto­bi­og­ra­phy Now metic­u­lous­ly unpacks the het­ero­ge­neous modes of life nar­ra­tives through which peo­ple tell their sto­ries, from tra­di­tion­al mem­oirs and trau­ma nar­ra­tives to col­lab­o­ra­tive life nar­ra­tive and auto­bi­o­graph­i­cal comics.
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