Routledge Language, Creativity and Humour Online (Language and Digital Media)

Product Description Language, Creativity and Humour Online offers new insights into the creative linguistic practices found in diverse digital contexts, such as social media platforms. It introduces new digital genres and contexts, expanding existing research on computer mediated communication (CMC) and covering key concepts in research on linguistic creativity. The book presents original linguistic analyses of a variety of digital genres, including: • Novelty Twitter accounts and political humour • Tumblr Chats • Amazon review parodies. This timely book uncovers the linguistic and interactional mechanisms underlying various types of creative, playful, and humorous texts online. It is essential reading for students and researchers working in the areas of language and media, and language and communication. Review "Not only does this book address an important aspect of digital communication, but it is also one of the clearest and most comprehensive accounts of linguistic creativity from a discourse analytical point of view I have ever read. Suitable for both students and seasoned scholars, it will be an indispensable addition to the bookshelf of anyone who studies the internet." Rodney Jones, University of Reading, UK "Camilla Vásquez’s recent monograph is a significant contribution to the burgeoning field of research on users’ creative humour construction on the internet, specifically on social media. (...) Rather than addressing the well-entrenched forms of humour, such as memes, on which much ink has been spilt from various perspectives, she focuses on phenomena that have not been widely acknowledged or investigated yet (...) Vásquez grabs readers by the hand, leading them through her discussions of previous literature and the research she has conducted (...) Human creativity is unbounded, which is something that scholars can and should capitalise on, using Vásquez’s monograph as a fertile source of inspiration." Marta Dynel, Language in Society, 2019 About the Author Camilla Vásquez is a Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of South Florida (USF), USA.