| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 238 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Pragmatics & beyond, 0922-842X ; new ser., v. 182 |
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Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 182
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| Contents |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Joking.
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Plays on words.
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Conversation analysis.
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Pragmatics.
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Puns and punning.
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pragmatics.
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Friendship.
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Puns and punning
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Conversation analysis
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Joking
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Plays on words
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Pragmatics
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Norrick, Neal R.
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Chiaro, Delia, 1953-
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| ISBN |
9789027289339 |
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9027289336 |
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9027254273 |
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9789027254276 |
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1282245260 |
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9781282245266 |
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9786612245268 |
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6612245263 |
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