Laughter in interaction / by Phillip Glenn.
Laughter in Interaction is an illuminating and lively account of how and why people laugh during conversation. Bringing together 25 years of research on the sequential organization of laughter in everyday talk, Glenn analyzes recordings and transcripts to show the finely-detailed coordination of hum...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2003]
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| Series: | Studies in interactional sociolinguistics.
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| Online Access: | Cambridge Books on Core Contributor biographical information |
| Summary: | Laughter in Interaction is an illuminating and lively account of how and why people laugh during conversation. Bringing together 25 years of research on the sequential organization of laughter in everyday talk, Glenn analyzes recordings and transcripts to show the finely-detailed coordination of human laughter. He demonstrates that its production and placement, relative to talk and other activities, reveals much about its emergent meaning and accomplishments. The book shows how 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 chapters examine the contribution of laughter to sequences of conversational intimacy and play, and to the invocation of gender. Engaging and original, the book shows how laughter plays a significant role in how people display, respond to, and revise identities and relationships. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 190 pages) : illustrations. |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511519885 9780511519888 0511670427 9780511670428 0511671709 9780511671708 0511672977 9780511672972 0511673760 9780511673764 0511674953 9780511674952 1282486454 9781282486454 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/CBO9780511519888 |