The Ethics of Humour in Online Slavic Media Communication

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 Kępa-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(Bogumił Gasek); Chapter 8. Humour as Zdzek in the Verbal Behaviour of the Participants of the Belarusian-Language Online Community (Тamara Pivavarchyk, Ina Minchuk); Chapter 9. Uštipačnost' 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 Korostenskienė); Concluding Remarks: Results of the Study (Lilia Duskaeva)