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Book Details
Publisher
Routledge
Language
English
ISBN-13
9780415544078
ISBN-10
0415544076
Author
Alan Partington
About the Book
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 argumen…
ISBN: 9780415544078
ISBN-13: 9780415544078
ISBN-10: 0415544076
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About the Book 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.
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