Ibi Baxter-Webb

List of John Benjamins publications in which Ibi Baxter-Webb is involved.

Title

‘Only joking’: Negotiating offensive humour in interaction

Edited by Chi-Hé Elder, Eleni Kapogianni and Ibi Baxter-Webb

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 32:1 (2025) v, 260 pp.

Articles

Elder, Chi-Hé, Eleni Kapogianni and Ibi Baxter-Webb 2025 Offensive humour: Theoretical and practical challenges ‘Only joking’: Negotiating offensive humour in interaction, Elder, Chi-Hé, Eleni Kapogianni and Ibi Baxter-Webb (eds.), pp. 1–7 | Introduction

Kapogianni, Eleni, Chi-Hé Elder and Ibi Baxter-Webb 2025 The joke and the joker: Ascribing accountability for offensive humour in stand-up comedy ‘Only joking’: Negotiating offensive humour in interaction, Elder, Chi-Hé, Eleni Kapogianni and Ibi Baxter-Webb (eds.), pp. 39–68 | Article

The ongoing and divisive discourse regarding the use of offensive humour in stand-up comedy is taking place both off-stage and on-stage: comedians use jokes that target sensitive characteristics ostensibly to show that no topic is ‘off limits’, while also taking a stance against those who argue… read more