The II International Conference on Verbal Humour (#CIHV2024) will take place at the University of Alicante (Spain) from October 16 to 18, 2024. Sponsored by GRIALE (https://griale.dfelg.ua.es/en/home/) and the research projects PID2019-104980GB-I00 “Interactional Humour in Spanish. Oral, written, and technological genres” (MCIN/AEI//10.13039/501100011033) and PROMETEO/2021/079 “Pragmatic labelling for an observatory of identity of women and men through humour. The platform Observahumor.com” (Consellería de Innovación, Universidades, Ciencia y Sociedad Digital. Generalitat Valenciana), it is a magnificent opportunity to bring together international researchers of the highest level, focusing on verbal humour and its idiosyncrasy from diverse perspectives. Moreover, it is an excellent opportunity to share knowledge about the latest advances in linguistic humour and to strengthen new research networks among the various attendees or promote new ones.
The GRIALE research group at the University of Alicante, the event promoter, is the only research group dedicated to studying irony and verbal humour in Spain. Founded in 2002, it has participated in six R&D national projects, two Prometeo projects from the Valencian Community, and has received several grants from the University of Alicante. Its main objectives are the pragmatic analysis of irony and humour, the observation of socio-cultural issues (such as gender and its impact on irony and humour), the acquisition of humour in children, and the application of the results obtained from the teaching-learning of Spanish as a foreign language and to language disorders, especially those related to autism spectrum. In addition, the group has developed several humour corpora, which can be found on the OBSERVAHUMOR.COM platform.
GRIALE has an internationally recognised reputation. Since it was founded in 2002, it has regularly organised several international meetings such as the following:
- 2011. International Symposium on Irony and Humour
- 2015. International Workshop on Advanced Studies of Humor and Gender
- 2017. International Symposium on Figurativeness
- 2019. International Conference on Verbal Humor
- 2022. II International Workshop on advanced studies of humor and gender
- 2023. II International Symposium on Verbal Humour. Interactive Humour
This process of internationalisation culminates with the celebration of the II International Conference on Verbal Humour in 2024.
ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION
The II International Conference on Verbal Humour is organised into invited lectures and communications.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Jan Chovanec
(Masaryk University, Czech Republic)
Digital humour as a form of grassroots political commentary
Béatrice Priego-Valverde
(University Aix-Marseille, France)
The role of smile in negotiating failed conversational humor
Geert Brône
(University KU Leuven, Belgium)
Humour and embodied stance in interaction
OTHER INVITED SPEAKERS:
Jef Verschueren
(University of Antwerp, Belgium)
Delia Chiaro
(University of Bologna, Italy)
Helga Kotthoff
(Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Germany)
Call for papers
We welcome original papers, written either Spanish or English. Topics for presentations may include, but are not exclusively limited to, the following ones (please, select one of them):
Panel 1. Humour, multimodality y digital discourses
Panel 2. Humour, language acquisition and language teaching
Panel 3. Humour and textual genres
Panel 4. Humour and linguistic corpora
Panel 5. Humour and interaction
Panel 6. Humour and (im)politeness