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