Humor in interaction / edited by Neal R. Norrick, Delia Chiaro.

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TextSeries: Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 182.Publication details: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2009.Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 238 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9789027289339
9027289336
9027254273
9789027254276
1282245260
9781282245266
9786612245268
6612245263

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Humor in interaction.DDC classification:

302.3/46 22

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P304 .H86 2009eb

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Humor in Interaction; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication; Table of contents; Humor and interaction; Part I: Conversation among friends and family; The occasioning of self-disclosure humor*; Direct address as a resource for humor; An interactional approach to irony development*; Multimodal and intertextual humor in the media reception situation; Part II: Doing gender with humor in talk at work; Using humor to do masculinity at work; Boundary-marking humor; Part III: Failed humor and its interactional effects; Impolite responses to failed humor; Failed humor in conversation.

Summary: This is the first edited volume dedicated specifically to humor in interaction. It is a rich collection of essays by an international array of scholars representing various theoretical perspectives, but all concerned with interactional aspects of humor. The contributors are scholars active both in the interdisciplinary area of humor studies and in adjacent disciplines such as linguistic pragmatics, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, psycholinguistics, gender and translation studies. The volume effectively offers an overview of the range of phenomena falling in the broad category of 'convers.

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This is the first edited volume dedicated specifically to humor in interaction. It is a rich collection of essays by an international array of scholars representing various theoretical perspectives, but all concerned with interactional aspects of humor. The contributors are scholars active both in the interdisciplinary area of humor studies and in adjacent disciplines such as linguistic pragmatics, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, psycholinguistics, gender and translation studies. The volume effectively offers an overview of the range of phenomena falling in the broad category of 'convers.

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