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Analyzing language and humor in online communication

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Analyzing language and humor in online communication/ Rotimi Taiwo, Akinola Odebunmi, and Akin Adetunji, editors.
other author:	Taiwo, Rotimi
Published:	Hershey, Pennsylvania :IGI Global, : [2016],
Description:	1 online resource (324 p.) :ill. :
Subject:	Wit and humor. -
Online resource:	http://services.igi-global.com/resolvedoi/resolve.aspx?doi=10.4018/978-1-5225-0338-5
ISBN:	9781522503392 (ebk.)

Analyzing language and humor in online communication
Analyzing language and humor in online communication[electronic resource] /Rotimi Taiwo, Akinola Odebunmi, and Akin Adetunji, editors. - Hershey, Pennsylvania :IGI Global,[2016] - 1 online resource (324 p.) :ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Searching for humor in dehumanization: American sitcoms, the Internet, and the globalization of Holocaust parodies / Jeffrey Demsky -- Negotiation of wit in Facebook humour / Akin Odebunmi, Simeon Ajiboye -- More than a joking matter: humor and political engagement in Ogas at the top / Funmi Olubode-Sawe -- Speaking in the free marketplace of ideas: the stylistics of humour in "blogversations" / Bimbola Idowu-Faith -- Communicative content of selected visual construction of humour on Facebook: a visual social semiotic analysis / Ibrahim Esan Olaosun -- A rhetoric of visual humor on Facebook / Wincharles Coker, Stephen Kwame Dadugblor -- A linguistic analysis of Klint Da Drunk's "Alcoholic" talk show / Faleye James Oladunjoye -- Language and humour in Cameroon social media / Camilla Arundie Tabe -- "Can I get in on the joke, too?": analysing racial humor within the public/private realm of the Internet / Frederick W. Gooding Jr. -- Discursive power relations in naijabookofjokes.com / Rotimi Taiwo -- Pragmatics of humour in a Nigerian university's departmental chat rooms / Onwu Inya -- Stand-up comedy and addressivity: the example of Joan Rivers / Akin Adetunji -- Humour in visual-verbal code-pairing in selected comments on the facebook forum / M. T. Lamidi -- Socio-semiotics of humour in ebola awareness discourse on Facebook / Lily Chimuanya, Esther Ajiboye -- Contextual beliefs and pragmatic strategies in online humour: an example of Akpos jokes / Oluwatomi Adeoti, Ibukun Filani.

Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.

"This book presents a compendium of research into virtual communities, online communication, social networks, and the ways that language, and humor in particular, are being conveyed and understood in these digital environments"--Provided by publisher.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9781522503392 (ebk.)Subjects--Topical Terms:

664715
Wit and humor.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Computer-mediated communication

LC Class. No.: PN6147 / .A53 2016e

Dewey Class. No.: 809.7

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