Nancy D. Bell
List of John Benjamins publications in which Nancy D. Bell is involved.
Articles
2018 Pragmatics, humor studies, and the study of interaction Pragmatics and its Interfaces, Ilie, Cornelia and Neal R. Norrick (eds.), pp. 291–309 | Chapter
In this chapter, I examine the interface between pragmatics and humor studies, first by outlining the contributions pragmatics has made to our understanding of what humor is and how it functions in everyday interaction. I review research that draws on a range of empirical methods, to illustrate… read more
2009 Impolite responses to failed humor Humor in Interaction, Norrick, Neal R. and Delia Chiaro (eds.), pp. 143–164 | Article
The data discussed in this paper come from a larger project designed to address the neglected area of failed humor. A corpus of 207 elicited responses to failed humor was collected. The focus here is on the 44% that were coded as impolite. Findings show that most responses attacked the speaker… read more