id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_lfl6zqbr3ncfxfflbi2l36rvzy Marta Dynel Arcana imperii* 2019 31 .pdf application/pdf 10573 909 55 Focusing on witty retorts to insults on Twitter, this paper contributes to the studies of creative humour in online interactions (Demjén 2016, 2018; Vásquez and micro-analysis of the data, focusing primarily on the formal and conceptual creativity of Daniels's humorous retorts to the insults she receives. Jocular insults performed as a humorous ritual (e.g. on social media) can be immensely creative and may communicate truthful meanings about targets even though they are not intended to cause we anonymise all tweets except for Stormy Daniels's, deleting from the screenHumorous retorts to insults on Twitter 63 In her response to the insult, Stormy Daniels humorously makes use of the polysemy of the word "sleep" and focuses on the irrelevant sense (clearly not intended The Twitter data analysed in this paper indicate that through her humorous retorts, Stormy Daniels never shows taking offence at the misogynist insults, ./cache/work_lfl6zqbr3ncfxfflbi2l36rvzy.pdf ./txt/work_lfl6zqbr3ncfxfflbi2l36rvzy.txt