{"product_id":"9783031930010","title":"Cringe Humor on Screen and in Digital Media Pragmatic Perspectives","description":"\u003ch1\u003eCringe Humor on Screen and in Digital Media\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003ePragmatic Perspectives\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eVirginie Iché | Célia Schneebeli | Lynn Blin\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage Arts \u0026amp; Disciplines \/ Linguistics \/ Pragmatics\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"\u003eThis volume\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"\u003e 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"\u003eVirginie Iché \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US; font-weight: normal;\"\u003eis Associate Professor of English Linguistics at Université de Montpellier Paul-Valéry, France. She authored \u003cem\u003eL’esthétique du jeu dans les \u003c\/em\u003eAlice\u003cem\u003e de Lewis Carroll\u003c\/em\u003e (2015) and co-edited (with S. Sorlin) \u003cem\u003eThe Rhetoric of Literary Communication\u003c\/em\u003e (2022).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"\u003eCélia Schneebeli\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US; font-weight: normal;\"\u003e is Associate Professor of English Linguistics at the Université Bourgogne Europe, France. She researches online discourse and discourse in interaction from a pragmatic perspective. She has published on impoliteness, humor, stance-taking, and image use in digital discourse.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"\u003eLynn Blin\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US; font-weight: normal;\"\u003e is Honorary Associate Professor in Linguistics and Translation at Université de Montpellier Paul-Valéry, France. She has published work on Alice Munro and Lydia Davis, and more recently on the ethics of laughter in the works of Ricky Gervais, Louis C.K. and David Sedaris.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e19 May 2026\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSpringer Nature Switzerland\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePalgrave Macmillan\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9783031930010\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e358\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44309899968652,"sku":"9783031930010","price":161.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783031930010_ca30d292-d38f-48f2-9744-bba7836a0597.jpg?v=1781087375","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9783031930010","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}