Christine Howes
List of John Benjamins publications in which Christine Howes is involved.
Articles
2025 “We could shoot him…”: Interpretations of offensive humour ‘Only joking’: Negotiating offensive humour in interaction, Elder, Chi-Hé, Eleni Kapogianni and Ibi Baxter-Webb (eds.), pp. 208–232 | Article
In everyday dialogue, people often say things that may be or are taken as offensive by their hearers. Whether or not these utterances are actually taken as offensive is highly context sensitive. Particularly important are social aspects such as the personae of the speaker and audience. Different… read more
2013 On making syntax dynamic: The challenge of compound utterances and the architecture of the grammar Alignment in Communication: Towards a new theory of communication, Wachsmuth, Ipke, Jan de Ruiter, Petra Jaecks and Stefan Kopp (eds.), pp. 57–86 | Article
The Pickering and Garrod model (Pickering & Garrod, 2013) represents a significant advance within the language-as-action paradigm in providing a mechanistic non-inferential account of dialogue. However, we suggest that, in maintaining several aspects of the language-as-product tradition, it does… read more
Metaphorically speaking: Conversational behavioural patterns in the use of linguistic metaphors Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Online-First Articles | Article
While abundant studies have examined cognitive efforts required for metaphor comprehension, what happens during metaphor production remains underexplored. Based on 19 triadic conversations produced by 57 participants, this paper examines conversational behaviours associated with the use of… read more