Cringe Humor on Screen and in Digital Media
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-93001-0 (ISBN)
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This volume is the first book-length study of 21st-century English-language cringe humor on screen and in digital media. The book includes quantitative and qualitative analyses of verbal and multimodal cringe humor by international linguists interested in its conditions of emergence and success. It examines the sociocultural variables involved in its reception and sheds new light on audience reactions from alignment to disaffiliation and resistance to empathy. This book reveals that, while not unanimously championed, cringe humor thrives in the 21st century, drawing on its inherent ambivalence and leveraging the affordances of new media to navigate the post-politically correct ethical complexities of laughing at embarrassing behavior. With its cross-disciplinary, pragmatically grounded approach, this book will interest scholars and students in Linguistics, Media and Cultural Studies, and Psychology.
Virginie Iché is an Associate Professor of English Linguistics in Montpellier, France. She is author of L esthétique du jeu dans les Alice de Lewis Carroll (2015). She is editor of Dear Child : Talking to Children in Victorian and Edwardian Children s Literature (2020) and (with Sandrine Sorlin) of The Rhetoric of Literary Communication (2022).
Célia Schneebeli is an Associate Professor of English Linguistics at the Université Bourgogne Europe, France. Her research focuses on online discourse and discourse in interaction from a pragmatic perspective. She has published work on linguistic impoliteness, online humor, stance-taking in online interaction, and the use of images in digital discourse.
Lynn Blin is an Honorary Associate Professor in Linguistics and Translation in Montpellier, France. Her research interests are in stylistics and pragmatics and she has published work on Alice Munro and Lydia Davis. Since 2018 she has concentrated on the ethics of laughter in the works of Ricky Gervais, Louis C.K. and David Sedaris.
Chapter 1 Introduction: Charting the Territory of 21st-Century Cringe Humor-Virginie Iché (Université de Montpellier Paul-Valéry) & Célia Schneebeli (Université Bourgogne Europe).- Chapter 2 Dimensions and Loci of Cringe Humor: The Case of 8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown- Alexander Brock (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg).- Chapter 3 How Cringe Humor Spices Up Talk Show Interactions- Agnieszka Piskorska (University Warszawski).- Chapter 4 Talk Show Cringe Humor: A Multimodal Approach to the Pragmatics of Play-Awkwardness in Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis-Jacob Rigal (University Paris Cité) & Dima Alkhateeb (University of Groningen).- Chapter 5 British vs American Cringe Comedy: Cultural Differences in Embarrassment Hum- Marc Hye-Knudsen (Aarhus University).- Chapter 6 To Cringe or Not to Cringe: The Role of Cultural and Age Variability in the Perception of Covid-19 Humor-
| Erscheinungsdatum | 29.11.2025 |
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| Zusatzinfo | XXII, 362 p. 122 illus., 96 illus. in color. |
| Verlagsort | Cham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 148 x 210 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft |
| Schlagworte | affiliative humor • Digitally mediated Communication • disaffiliative humor • Discourse analysis • Film Studies • Humor • Humour • multimodal analysis • offensive humor • participation framework • Social Media • Television |
| ISBN-10 | 3-031-93001-0 / 3031930010 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-031-93001-0 / 9783031930010 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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