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  1. ‘I will live by my own policies. I will sleep with a clear conscience. I will sleep in peace.’: Calling out pejorative celebrity obituaries as an emergent digilante practice

    Article • Celebrity Studies, August 2026, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  2. What would you do if you could narrate your wonder years?: Interactional pragmatics of voice-over narration

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, June 2025, Elsevier

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  3. Beyond social polarisation: Memetic (de)legitimisation and quasi-legitimisation of non-fungible tokens

    Article • European Journal of Communication, December 2024, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  4. Say what you want: Evaluation and engagement with YouTube broadcasts on ChatGPT

    Article • Journalism, May 2024, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  5. Do We Know Whether to Laugh or Cry? User Responses to @Ukraine’s Dark-humour Meme

    Article • Journal of Creative Communications, April 2024, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  6. The pragmatics of sharing memes on Twitter

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, January 2024, Elsevier

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  7. Lessons in linguistics with ChatGPT: Metapragmatics, metacommunication, metadiscourse and metalanguage in human-AI interactions

    Article • Language & Communication, November 2023, Elsevier

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  8. Hashtag swearing: Pragmatic polysemy and polyfunctionality of #FuckPutin as solidary flaming

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, May 2023, Elsevier

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  9. #HaStatoPutin Affinity Space: From Political Work to Autotelic Humor

    Article • Social Media + Society, October 2022, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  10. The life of COVID-19 mask memes: A diachronic study of the pandemic memescape

    Article • Comunicar, July 2022, Grupo Comunicar

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  11. Metarecipient parents’ #Bluey tweets as a distributed fandom affinity space

    Article • Poetics, June 2022, Elsevier

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  12. Deception: Lying and Beyond

    Article • December 2021, Cambridge University Press

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  13. Fidelis ad mortem: multimodal discourses and ideologies in Black Lives Matter and Blue Lives Matter (non)humorous memes

    Article • Information Communication & Society, November 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  14. Humour and (mock) aggression: Distinguishing cyberbullying from roasting

    Article • Language & Communication, November 2021, Elsevier

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  15. Desperately seeking intentions: Genuine and jocular insults on social media

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, July 2021, Elsevier

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  16. You Don’t Fool Me: On Scams, Scambaiting, Deception, and Epistemological Ambiguity at R/scambait on Reddit

    Article • Social Media + Society, July 2021, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  17. Creating and sharing public humour across traditional and new media

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, May 2021, Elsevier

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  18. Conversational Humour

    Article • April 2021, Cambridge University Press

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  19. When Both Utterances and Appearances are Deceptive: Deception in Multimodal Film Narrative

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  20. Laughter through tears: Unprofessional review comments as humor on the ShitMyReviewersSay Twitter account

    Article • Intercultural Pragmatics, November 2020, De Gruyter

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  21. COVID-19 memes going viral: On the multiple multimodal voices behind face masks

    Article • Discourse & Society, November 2020, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  22. On being roasted, toasted and burned: (Meta)pragmatics of Wendy's Twitter humour

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, September 2020, Elsevier

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  23. Vigilante disparaging humour at r/IncelTears: Humour as critique of incel ideology

    Article • Language & Communication, September 2020, Elsevier

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  24. Ad libidinem: Forms of female sexualisation in RoastMe humour

    Article • Sexualities, June 2020, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  25. On a Cross-Cultural Memescape: Switzerland through Nation Memes from within and from the Outside

    Article • Contrastive Pragmatics, June 2020, Brill

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  26. Caveat emptor: boycott through digital humour on the wave of the 2019 Hong Kong protests

    Article • Information Communication & Society, May 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  27. Book review

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, January 2020, Elsevier

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  28. Quid rides?: Targets and referents of RoastMe insults

    Article • Humor - International Journal of Humor Research, December 2019, De Gruyter

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  29. Camilla Vásquez, Language, creativity and humour online. London: Routledge, 2019. Pp. 190. Pb. £29.

    Article • Language in Society, November 2019, Cambridge University Press

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  30. Arcana imperii*

    Article • Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict, October 2019, John Benjamins

    Fabio Indìo Massimo Poppi, Prof. Marta Dynel

  31. Ironic intentions in action and interaction

    Article • Language Sciences, September 2019, Elsevier

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  32. Editorial

    Article • Lingua, May 2019, Elsevier

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  33. Risum teneatis, amici?☆: The socio-pragmatics of RoastMe humour

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, January 2019, Elsevier

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  34. Irony in Language Use and Communication

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, October 2018, Elsevier

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  35. To Say the Least: Where Deceptively Withholding Information Ends and Lying Begins

    Article • Topics in Cognitive Science, September 2018, Wiley

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  36. Theoretically onMock Politeness in English and Italian

    Article • Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict, July 2018, John Benjamins

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  37. Taking cognisance of cognitive linguistic research on humour

    Article • Review of Cognitive Linguistics, May 2018, John Benjamins

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  38. Issues in Humour Cognition

    Article • Review of Cognitive Linguistics, May 2018, John Benjamins

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  39. Chapter 3. Deconstructing the myth of positively evaluative irony

    Article • April 2018, John Benjamins

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  40. Irony, Deception and Humour

    Article • March 2018, De Gruyter

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  41. In tragoedia risus: Analysis of dark humour in post-terrorist attack discourse

    Article • Discourse & Communication, March 2018, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  42. The texts of analyst reports change the response of the stock market to recommendations

    Article • International Journal of Business Communication, January 2018, SAGE Publications

    Karol Klimczak, Prof. Marta Dynel

  43. Overt pretence as a source of conversational

    Article • January 2018, John Benjamins

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  44. But seriously: On conversational humour and (un)truthfulness

    Article • Lingua, October 2017, Elsevier

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  45. Introduction: On the linguistics of humour theoretically

    Article • Lingua, October 2017, Elsevier

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  46. Academics vs. American scriptwriters vs. academics: A battle over the etic and emic “sarcasm” and “irony” labels

    Article • Language & Communication, July 2017, Elsevier

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  47. Approaching conversational humour culturally: A survey of the emerging area of investigation

    Article • Language & Communication, July 2017, Elsevier

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  48. Chapter 1. Implicitness

    Article • June 2017, John Benjamins

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  49. Chapter 6. Implicitness via overt untruthfulness

    Article • June 2017, John Benjamins

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  50. Implicitness

    Article • June 2017, John Benjamins

    Prof. Marta Dynel, Professor Piotr Cap

  51. Editorial

    Article • Lingua, May 2017, Elsevier

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  52. 4. “Is there a tumour in your humour?”: On misunderstanding and miscommunication in conversational humour

    Article • January 2017, De Gruyter

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  53. 3. Participation as audience design

    Article • January 2017, De Gruyter

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  54. The Irony of Irony: Irony Based on Truthfulness

    Article • Corpus Pragmatics, January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  55. 15. (Im)politeness and telecinematic discourse

    Article • January 2017, De Gruyter

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  56. Two layers of overt untruthfulness

    Article • Pragmatics & Cognition, December 2016, John Benjamins

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  57. New Theoretical Insights into Untruthfulness

    Article • Pragmatics & Cognition, September 2016, John Benjamins

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  58. On untruthfulness, its adversaries and strange bedfellows

    Article • Pragmatics & Cognition, September 2016, John Benjamins

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  59. Comparing and combining covert and overt untruthfulness

    Article • Pragmatics & Cognition, September 2016, John Benjamins

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  60. A burgeoning field of research: Humorous intent in interaction

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, April 2016, Elsevier

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  61. With or without intentions: Accountability and (un)intentional humour in film talk

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, April 2016, Elsevier

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  62. Pejoration via sarcastic irony and sarcasm

    Article • March 2016, John Benjamins

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  63. Humour as (im)politeness in film

    Article • Journal of Politeness Research, February 2016, De Gruyter

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  64. “Trolling is not stupid”: Internet trolling as the art of deception serving entertainment

    Article • Intercultural Pragmatics, January 2016, De Gruyter

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  65. Introduction

    Article • International Review of Pragmatics, January 2016, Brill

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  66. Killing Two Birds with One Deceit

    Article • International Review of Pragmatics, January 2016, Brill

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  67. Participation in Public and Social Media Interactions

    Article • January 2015, John Benjamins

    Dr Jan Chovanec, Prof. Marta Dynel

  68. Researching interactional forms and participant structures in public and social media

    Article • January 2015, John Benjamins

    Dr Jan Chovanec, Prof. Marta Dynel

  69. Dynel Marta: Developments in Linguistic Humour Theory. Topics in Humor Research. Vol. 1

    Article • Humor - International Journal of Humor Research, January 2015, De Gruyter

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  70. Intention to deceive, bald-faced lies, and deceptive implicature: Insights into Lying at the semantics-pragmatics interface

    Article • Intercultural Pragmatics, January 2015, De Gruyter

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  71. The landscape of impoliteness research

    Article • Journal of Politeness Research, January 2015, De Gruyter

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  72. Communicating Uncertainty in Financial Statement Narratives: Goodwill Impairment Testing

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2015, Elsevier

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  73. Impoliteness in the service of verisimilitude in film interaction

    Article • January 2015, John Benjamins

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  74. Participation framework underlying YouTube interaction

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, November 2014, Elsevier

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  75. A Survey of “Intercultural Pragmatics” and Its Outlook on the Gricean Philosophy of Communication

    Article • International Review of Pragmatics, January 2014, Brill

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  76. Isn't it ironic? Defining the scope of humorous irony

    Article • Humor - International Journal of Humor Research, January 2014, De Gruyter

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  77. Linguistic approaches to (non)humorous irony

    Article • Humor - International Journal of Humor Research, January 2014, De Gruyter

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  78. On the part of ratified participants: ratified listeners in multi-party interactions

    Article • Brno Studies in English, January 2014, Masaryk University Press

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  79. Developments in Linguistic Humour Theory

    Article • September 2013, John Benjamins

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  80. Humorous phenomena in dramatic discourse

    Article • European Journal of Humour Research, March 2013, Estonian Literary Museum of Scholarly Press

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  81. Review of Jokes and the Linguistic Mind and Meaning and Humour

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, February 2013, Elsevier

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  82. Irony from a neo-Gricean perspective: On untruthfulness and evaluative implicature

    Article • Intercultural Pragmatics, January 2013, De Gruyter

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  83. On Impoliteness and Drama Discourse: An Interview with Jonathan Culpeper

    Article • International Review of Pragmatics, January 2013, Brill

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  84. A view on humour theory

    Article • January 2013, John Benjamins

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  85. Impoliteness as disaffiliative humour in film talk

    Article • January 2013, John Benjamins

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  86. When does irony tickle the hearer?

    Article • January 2013, John Benjamins

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  87. Setting our House in order: The workings of impoliteness in multi-party film discourse

    Article • Journal of Politeness Research, June 2012, De Gruyter

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  88. Swearing methodologically : the (im)politeness of expletives in anonymous commentaries on Youtube

    Article • Journal of English Studies, May 2012, Universidad de la Rioja

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  89. A Web of Deceit: A Neo-Gricean View on Types of Verbal Deception

    Article • International Review of Pragmatics, November 2011, Brill

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  90. Turning speaker meaning on its head

    Article • Pragmatics & Cognition, October 2011, John Benjamins

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  91. Stranger than Fiction? A Few Methodological Notes on Linguistic Research in Film Discourse

    Article • Brno Studies in English, October 2011, Masaryk University Press

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  92. Revisiting Goffman’s postulates on participant statuses in verbal interaction

    Article • Language and Linguistics Compass, July 2011, Wiley

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  93. The Pragmatics of Humour across Discourse Domains

    Article • June 2011, John Benjamins

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  94. “You talking to me?” The viewer as a ratified listener to film discourse

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, May 2011, Elsevier

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  95. Blending the Incongruity-Resolution Model and the Conceptual Integration Theory: The Case of Blends in Pictorial Advertising

    Article • International Review of Pragmatics, April 2011, Brill

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  96. Two communicative levels and twofold illocutionary force in televised political debates

    Article • Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics, January 2011, De Gruyter

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  97. Pragmatics and linguistic research into humour

    Article • January 2011, John Benjamins

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  98. “I’ll be there for you!” On participation-based sitcom humour

    Article • January 2011, John Benjamins

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  99. Joker in the pack

    Article • January 2011, John Benjamins

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  100. Chapter 5. Entertaining and enraging

    Article • January 2011, John Benjamins

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  101. Żarty na bok: Kognitywne mechanizmy w dowcipach

    Article • January 2011, Uniwersytet Lodzki (University of Lodz)

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  102. On "Revolutionary Road": A Proposal for Extending the Gricean Model of Communication to Cover Multiple Hearers

    Article • Lodz Papers in Pragmatics, January 2010, De Gruyter

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  103. Editorial

    Article • Lodz Papers in Pragmatics, January 2010, De Gruyter

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  104. Beyond a Joke: Types of Conversational Humour

    Article • Language and Linguistics Compass, September 2009, Wiley

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  105. Pragmatics and Discourse. A Resource Book for Students, 2nd Edition

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, May 2009, Elsevier

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  106. Book Reviews

    Article • Lodz Papers in Pragmatics, January 2009, De Gruyter

    Dr Manuel Padilla Cruz, Prof. Marta Dynel

  107. Gendered Discourse in the Professional Workplace

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, September 2008, Elsevier

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  108. Book reviews

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, January 2008, Elsevier

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  109. There Is Method in the Humorous Speaker's Madness: Humour and Grice's Model

    Article • Lodz Papers in Pragmatics, January 2008, De Gruyter

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  110. Introduction to Special Issue on Humour: A Modest Attempt at Presenting Contemporary Linguistic Approaches to Humour Studies

    Article • Lodz Papers in Pragmatics, January 2008, De Gruyter

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  111. No Aggression, Only Teasing: The Pragmatics of Teasing and Banter

    Article • Lodz Papers in Pragmatics, January 2008, De Gruyter

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  112. New Approaches to the Linguistics of Humour

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, December 2007, Elsevier

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  113. The Linguistics of Laughter. A Corpus-Assisted Study of Laughter-Talk

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, October 2007, Elsevier

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  114. Book reviews

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, March 2007, Elsevier

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  115. Marta Dynel

    Article • Peter Lang, International Academic Publishers

    Prof. Marta Dynel

  116. Being cooperatively (im)polite: Grice’s model in the context of (im)politeness theories

    Article • De Gruyter

    Prof. Marta Dynel