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The linguistics of laughter : a corpus-assisted study of laughter-talk / Alan Partington.

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Van Pelt Library P95.45 .P37 2006
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Partington, Alan
Series:
Routledge studies in linguistics ; 5.
Routledge studies in linguistics ; 5
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Conversation analysis--Data processing.
Conversation analysis.
Laughter--Data processing.
Laughter.
Physical Description:
262 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Place of Publication:
London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
Contents:
Introduction: laughter-talk - research questions and methods 1
1 Joke humour theory and language principles 25
2 Laughter in running discourse: shifts of mode, narrative, role and register 57
3 Face-work and the in-group 82
4 Wordplay, phraseplay and relexicalization 110
5 Teasing and verbal duelling 144
6 Irony and sarcasm 182
Appendix 1 Visual puns and verbal-visual puns 237
Appendix 2 Levels of sarcasm 239
Appendix 3 Irony and popular historiography 240.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [248]-255) and indexes.
ISBN:
0415381665
0415361664
OCLC:
63125931
Publisher Number:
9780415361666

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