Name
GRIALE (Research Group on Irony and Humour in Spanish at the University of Alicante)
Members
- Leonor Ruiz Gurillo
- Larissa Timofeeva Timofeev
- José Joaquín Martínez Egido
- Esther Linares Bernabéu
- Mª Belén Alvarado Ortega
- G. Angela Mura
- Laura Mª Aliaga Aguza
- Susana Rodríguez Rosique
- Jorge Fernández Jaén
- Ruth Lavale Ortiz
- Carmen Marimón Llorca
- Alicia Merino González
- Maria Belyakova
- Ana Belén Castelló
- José Antonio Ortega Gilabert
Objectives
Its main objectives are the pragmatic analysis of irony and humour, the observation of socio-cultural aspects such as gender and its incidence on irony and humour, the acquisition of humour in children and the application of the results obtained to the teaching-learning of Spanish as a foreign language and to language disorders, especially those related to the autistic spectrum. In addition, GRIALE has developed several humour corpora, which can be found at observahumor.com(http://www.observahumor.com/)
Lines of research
- Interactive humour in oral, written and technological genres (Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp, etc.)
- Humour, gender and identity
- Acquisition of humour in boys and girls
- Development and skills of metapragmatic competence
- Analysis of humorous and non-humorous genres
- Subversive monologue
- Situation comedy
- Humour in colloquial conversation
- Description of humorous marks and indicators
- Applications to the Spanish as a foreign language classroom
- Applications to language disorders (especially TEI)