Ser (des)cortés negociando en la interacción

In this paper, an analysis of politeness in the humorous sequences of VALESCO.HUMOR is carried out. The corpus consists of 149 sequences that have been identified as humorous, digitalized, and compiled at the website: http://www.observahumor.com/. Focused on a concept centered on conversational humour and, more specifically, on interactive humour (Chovanec and Tsakona 2017), and also taking into account the third wave of politeness (Garcés-Conejos Blitvich and Bou-Franch 2020), which primarily considers the inferences and evaluations of the participants, three main trends have been established in the VALESCO.HUMOR corpus. Firstly, politeness with an affiliative style that aims to show solidarity with the community of practice (Holmes and Meyerhoff 1999) and results in an in-group sequence; is represented by 58.38%. Secondly, mock impoliteness, where an aggressive style is used that initially does not intend to harm the target of the mockery but rather to strengthen the bonds among the participants; it accounts for 25.50% of the examples. Finally, impoliteness refers to those sequences where the participants use an aggressive style that aims to confront the group. This last trend is represented by 10.06%. Additionally, an analysis of some examples is also achieved. This detailed description provides us a more comprehensive analysis on how humor is negotiated in colloquial conversations.