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The Linguistics of Laughter - A Corpus-Assisted Study of Laughter-Talk (Paperback)
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The Linguistics of Laughter - A Corpus-Assisted Study of Laughter-Talk (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Linguistics
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The Linguistics of Laughter examines what speakers try to achieve
by producing 'laughter-talk' (the talk preceding and eliciting an
episode of laughter) and, by using abundant examples from language
corpora, what hearers are signalling when they produce laughter. In
particular, Alan Partington focuses on the tactical use of
laughter-talk to achieve specific rhetorical, and strategic, ends:
for example, to construct an identity, to make an argumentative
point, to threaten someone else's face or save one's own. Although
laughter and humour are by no means always related, the book also
considers the implications these corpus-based observations may have
about humour theory in general. As one of the first works to have
recourse to such a sizeable databank of examples of laughter in
spontaneous running talk, this impressive volume is an essential
point of reference and an inspiration for scholars with an interest
in corpus linguistics, discourse, humour, wordplay, irony and
laughter-talk as a social phenomenon.
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