Neal R. Norrick Neal R. Norrick holds the chair of English Linguistics at Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Germany. He has taught English Linguistics at Northern Illinois University and the Universities of Würzburg, Kassel, Hamburg, Braunschweig and Regensburg. His research specializations in linguistics include verbal humor, narrative, discourse and poetics. In recent years, Professor Norrick has focused his research on spoken language.
Professor Norrick is a member of editorial boards of the journals Humor: International Journal of Humor Research; Text: An interdisciplinary journal for the study of discourse; Journal of Pragmatics, and Discourse Processes.

Selected publications on humor:

Non-verbal humor and joke performance. Humor 17-4 (2004), 401-409.
Humor, tellability and conarration in conversation. Text 24-1 (2004): 79-111.
Interaction in the telling and retelling of interlaced stories: The co-construction of humorous narratives. Narrative Interaction. Ed. Uta M. Quasthoff & Tabea Becker, 263-283. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2004.
Issues in conversational joking. Journal of Pragmatics 35 (2003): 1333-1359.
On the conversational performance of narrative jokes: Toward an account of timing. Humor 14-3 (2001): 255-274.
Jokes and joking in conversation. Text- und Gesprächslinguistik/Linguistics of Text and Conversation, vol. 2. Ed. K. Brinker, G. Antos & S. F. Sager, 1438-1450. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2001.
Repetition in conversational joking. Repetition in Dialogue. Ed. Carla Bazzanella, 129-139. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1996.
Metalingual humor in Pinter's early plays. English Studies 76-3 (1995): 253-263. (With William Baker)
Repetition in German and American conversational joking. Linguistics with a Human Face. Ed. K. Sornig, et al., 293-298. Graz: Grazer Linguistische Monographien, 1995.
Repetition as a conversational joking strategy. Repetition in Discourse: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, vol. 2. Ed. B. Johnstone, 15-28. Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1994.
Involvement and joking in conversation. Journal of Pragmatics 22 (1994): 409-430
Conversational joking. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993.
Repetition in canned jokes and spontaneous conversational joking. Humor 6 (1993): 385-402.
Intertextuality in humor. Humor 2-2 (1989): 117-139.
Humorous proverbial comparisons. Proverbium 4 (1987): 173-186.
From wit to comedy: Bisociation and intertextuality. Semiotica 67-1/2 (1987): 113-25.
A frame-theoretical analysis of verbal humor: Bisociation as schema conflict. Semiotica 60-3/4 (1986): 225-45.
Stock conversational witticisms. Journal of Pragmatics 8 (1984): 195-209.

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