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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Norrick, Neal R.

Chiaro, Delia, 1953-

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; v. 182.

Pragmatics & beyond new series ; v. 182

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Joking.

Plays on words.

Conversation analysis.

Pragmatics.

Physical Description:

xvii, 238 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This essay sets out to explore a positive aspect of bilingual cross-cultural couples in long term relationships, namely the occurrence of what is considered a harmonious factor: humour. The results of a purpose-built questionnaire completed by 59 couples sheds light on a series of socio and psycholinguistic aspects of their daily relationship including language choice and attitudes in the domain of the couples' ludic interaction, such as when they joke with each other verbally and their use of humorous talk. This essay reports the findings of the processed data that emerged from the questionnaires as well as qualitative data deriving from a series of semi-structured interviews. I love you, I love you , I love you, that's all I want to say, until I find a way, I will say the only words I know that you'll understand, my Michelle. (Lennon-McCartney).

Contents:

The occasioning of self-disclosure humor / Susan M. Ervin-Tripp & Martin Lampert

Direct address as a resource for humor / Neal R. Norrick & Claudia Bubel

An interactional approach to irony development / Helga Kotthoff

Multimodal and intertextual humor in the media reception situation : the case of watching football on TV / Cornelia Gerhardt

Using humor to do masculinity at work / Stephanie Schnurr & Janet Holmes

Boundary-marking humor : institutional, gender, and ethnic demarcation in the workplace / Bernadette Vine ... [et al.]

Impolite responses to failed humor / Nancy D. Bell

Failed humor in conversation : a double voicing analysis / Béatrice Priego-Valverde

Humor and interlanguage in a bilingual elementary school setting / Kristin Kersten

Cultural divide or unifying factor? : humorous talk in the interaction of bilingual, cross-cultural couples.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789027289339 (eBook)

9789027289339

9027289336

OCLC:

460656487