The Ethics of Humour in Online Slavic Media Communication

The Ethics of Humour in Online Slavic Media Communication is devoted to research on how the rules of humour used online media are changing and how these changes rearrange the traditions of speech interaction in media communication. The authors of the book are experienced researchers in the field of Slavic media linguistics and represent five neighbouring countries: Russia, Belarus, Lithuania, Slovakia, and Poland. The research in the volume is based on the data from Slavic languages. The diversity and, at the same time, relative proximity of Slavic languages make it possible to put separate studies into a wider comparative context, in order to reveal the general and ethno-cultural patterns in using means of communicative etiquette; it helps define the ethno-cultural factors behind the formation of such means. Speech practice of humour creation shows the creative potential of all languages, including the ones with a small number of speakers - Slovak and Belarusian, which have the status of state languages, but are strongly influenced by international languages (English and Russian). This volume is a valuable resource for researchers in the field of Slavic studies.

Lilia Duskaeva is a Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communications, Head of the Department of Media Linguistics at St. Petersburg State University, Head of the Media Linguistical Commission under the International Committee of Slavists (under UNESCO patronage), Honored Professor of the Beijing Second Foreign Language University, and Chief Editor of the international scientific journal Media Linguistics. She has published nearly 300 academic publications on linguopragmatics, functional stylistics, and media linguistics.

Introduction; Chapter 1. Theoretical Framework for the Analysis of the Ethics of Humour in Mass Media Discourse (Lilia Duskaeva); Chapter 2. Multimodality of Internet-Mediated Communication Behaviour (Danuta Kepa-Figura); Part I. Ethical Evaluation of Humour in Mass Media; Chapter 3. Humour as Mockery (Lilia Duskaeva, Ksenia Shilikhina); Chapter 4. Humour in Prank Telephone Conversations (Lilia Duskaeva, Ekaterina Shcheglova); Chapter 5. Humour as Izdevka (Gibe) (Lilia Duskaeva, Liubov Ivanova); Chapter 6. Humour as Evaluation of Poshlost' and Cynicism in the Speech of Others (Viktoria Vasileva); Part II. Ethics of Online Humour in Slavic-Language Computer-Mediated Verbal Interaction; Chapter 7. Humour as a Provocation of Kpina (Mockery) and Wyszydzanie (Derision) in the Polish Political Segment of Twitter(Bogumil Gasek); Chapter 8. Humour as Zdzek in the Verbal Behaviour of the Participants of the Belarusian-Language Online Community (-amara Pivavarchyk, Ina Minchuk); Chapter 9. UStipacnost' and Correctness in Slovak Online Humour (Nina Cingerová, Irina Dulebová); Chapter 10. Humour of Solidarity in Russian-Speaking Discourse on Social Networking Groups in Lithuania (Anastasija Belovodskaja, Julija Korostenskiene); Concluding Remarks: Results of the Study (Lilia Duskaeva)