[Humor] Humor Research Conference March 9-11, 2017

[Christian Hempelmann]

Dear previous HRC attendees,

Planning is progressing and first deadlines are approaching for the next Humor Research Conference in Dallas from March 9-11, 2017.

The theme for this year’s international, friendly, all-plenary conference will be multidisciplinarity. As in previous years, this is not a conference on the linguistics of humor, all approaches are welcome.

The Call for Papers is now open until December 31st (early submission) or January 31st (late submission for participants who don’t need to plan their travel).

As in 2015, the venue will be Texas A&M-Commerce’s Universities Center<http://www.tamuc.edu/academics/locations/dallas/directions.aspx> in downtown Dallas, accessible by DART local trains from both Dallas airports. The conference hotel will be also be the Hotel Indigo<https://www.ihg.com/hotelindigo/hotels/us/en/dallas/dalar/hoteldetail> again, which is conveniently attached to the conference venue. A set of rooms has been blocked at $155/night+taxes. We’ll help budget-conscious travelers by organizing room sharing.

Attendees should plan to arrive on Thursday, 3/9/2017, either in the morning to attend a pre-conference workshops (see below), or by the evening for a plenary talk. Full conference sessions will run all day Friday and Saturday, with casual events planned for both evenings.

Thanks!
Kiki


Pre-Conferece Workshops

Multimodal tools for the analysis of humor
This workshop introduces a set of tools and methods to perform a multimodal analysis of humor in spoken discourse. The hands-on approach will provide the attendees with practical materials, templates, and procedures to perform methodologically sound analyses. No prior knowledge assumed. All materials included.

The General Theory of Verbal Humor: Methods and applications
This workshop will introduce scholars from any field to most prominent family of theories in linguistic humor research, namely the Semantic Script Theory of Humor (SSTH), its main offshoot, the General Theory of Verbal Humor (GTVH), and its latest computational-linguistic incarnation, the Ontological Semantic Theory of Humor (OSTH). Participants will learn how to apply these theories to the study of humor by means of analyzing a variety of examples from different sources. Taught by Attardo, Hempelmann, Raskin, and Rayz.

Christian F. Hempelmann, PhD | Assistant Professor of Computational Linguistics
Department of Literature and Languages
c.hempelmann at tamuc.edu

Texas A&M University-Commerce
P.O. Box 3011 | Commerce, TX 75429-3011
Tel. 903.886.5291 (email preferred) | Fax: 903.886.5980 | www.tamuc.edu
The Texas A&M University System
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