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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827217903321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

9789027289339 (eBook)

90-272-8933-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xvii, 238 p. : ill

Collana

Pragmatics & beyond new series ; ; v. 182

Altri autori (Persone)

NorrickNeal R

ChiaroDelia <1953->

Disciplina

302.3/46

Soggetti

Joking

Plays on words

Conversation analysis

Pragmatics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 / BeĢatrice 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.

Sommario/riassunto

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).