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The conference is convened to provide a forum for linguists interested in the area of humour research. The primary objectives will be to explore the nature of multifarious humorous phenomena and to enhance methodological tools used in humour studies across a variety of linguistic disciplines.
Plenary speakers at the first LAFAL symposium were:
Selected papers presented at the first LAFAL symposium have recently been published in a peer-reviewed volume (Marta Dynel (ed.). 2011. The Pragmatics of Humour across Discourse Domains. Pragmatic and Beyond New Series 210, John Benjamins).
The second LAFAL symposium is organised in 2012 as part of the ISHS conference in Krakow. We invite papers addressing all manner of manifestations of humour, funniness, amusement, and laughter, such as: canned jokes, one-liners, witticisms, anecdotes, teasing, banter, wordplay, rhetorical figures (e.g. humorous irony or humorous metaphors), parody, satire, laughter in discourse, or non-verbal humour. Those can be derived from any of the whole gamut of discourses, such as: everyday interactions, film dialogues, TV programmes, stand-up comedy, advertising, politics, the Internet, literature, or newspapers and magazines; and analysed within any the infinite range of theoretical frameworks subscribing to linguistic disciplines, such as: pragmatics, semantics, discourse analysis, translation sociolinguistics, neurolinguistics, psycholinguistics, philosophy of language, or computational linguistics.
The third LAFAL symposium, “Entertainment Discourse Beyond Humour Studies”, is convened in 2013 (21-23 March) in Łódź to provide a forum for linguists who are interested in concepts and language issues of relevance to humour research but who prefer to address those without employing humour theory. The primary objective will be to explore multifarious phenomena which, viewed from a certain angle, appear to be humorous and, thereby, to enhance methodological tools used in humour studies across a variety of linguistic disciplines.
Plenary speakers at the third symposium will be: