Laughter in interaction / by Phillip Glenn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Glenn, Phillip J., author.

Series:

Studies in interactional sociolinguistics ; 18.

Studies in interactional sociolinguistics ; 18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conversation analysis.

Laughter.

Social interaction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 190 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Laughter in Interaction is an illuminating and lively account of how and why people laugh during conversation. Bringing together twenty-five years of research on the sequential organisation of laughter in everyday talk, Glenn analyses recordings and transcripts to show the finely detailed co-ordination of human laughter. He demonstrates that its production and placement, relative to talk and other activities, reveal much about its emergent meaning and accomplishments. The book shows how the participants in a conversation move from a single laugh to laughing together, how the matter of 'who laughs first' implicates orientation to social activities and how interactants work out whether laughs are more affiliative or hostile. The final chapter examines the contribution of laughter to sequences of conversational intimacy and play and to the invocation of gender. Engaging and original, the book shows how this seemingly insignificant part of human communication turns out to play a highly significant role in how people display, respond to and revise identities and relationships.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Towards a social interactional approach to laughter

2. Conversation analysis and the study of laughter

3. Laughing together

4. Who laughs first

5. Laughing At and Laughing With: negotiating participant alignments

6. Laughing along, resisting: constituting relationship and identity

7. Closing remarks

References.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-187) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-12870-6

1-282-48645-4

9786612486456

0-511-67376-0

0-511-67495-3

0-511-67170-9

0-511-67042-7

0-511-51988-5

0-511-67297-7

OCLC:

609856543