The Linguistics of Laughter
A Corpus-Assisted Study of Laughter-Talk
The Linguistics of Laughter examines what speakers try to achieve by producing laughter-talk (the talk preceding and eliciting an episode of laughter) and, using abundant examples from language corpora, what hearers are signaling when they produce laughter. In particular, Alan Partington focuses on the tactical use of laughter-talk to achieve specific rhetorical, and strategic, ends: for example, to construct an identity, to make an argumentative point, to threaten someone else's face or save one's own. Although laughter and humor are by no means always related, the book also considers the implications these corpus-based observations may have…
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- ISBN: 978-1-134-17812-4
- EAN: 9781134178124
- Produktnummer: 15000305
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 2'474 KB
- Abbildungen: 2 schwarz-weiße Zeichnungen, 1 schwarz-weiße Tabellen
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