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.
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