By Alan Partington
ISBN-10: 0415381665
ISBN-13: 9780415381666
ISBN-10: 0415544076
ISBN-13: 9780415544078
The Linguistics of Laughter examines what audio system try and in attaining through generating ‘laughter-talk’ (the speak previous and eliciting an episode of laughter) and, through the use of ample examples from language corpora, what hearers are signalling after they produce laughter.
In specific, Alan Partington specializes in the tactical use of laughter-talk to accomplish particular rhetorical, and strategic, ends: for instance, to build an identification, to make an argumentative aspect, to threaten a person else’s face or shop one's personal. even if laughter and humour are in no way consistently similar, the ebook additionally considers the results those corpus-based observations can have approximately humour concept in most cases.
As one of many first works to have recourse to this kind of monstrous databank of examples of laughter in spontaneous operating speak, this striking quantity is an important element of reference and an thought for students with an curiosity in corpus linguistics, discourse, humour, wordplay, irony and laughter-talk as a social phenomenon.
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