Laughter in Interaction

Informationen zum Autor Phillip Glenn is Associate Professor and Chair at the Department of Organizational and Political Communication, Emerson College. Klappentext Laughter in Interaction is an illuminating and lively account of how and why people laugh during conversation. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Towards a social interactional approach to laughter; 2. Conversation analysis and the study of laughter; 3. Laughing together; 4. Who laughs first; 5. Laughing at and laughing with: negotiating participant alignments; 6. Laughing along, resisting: constituting relationship and identity; 7. Closing remarks; Notes; References; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Phillip Glenn, Phillip (Emerson College Glenn, Phillip J. Glenn, Glenn Phillip
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.01.2009
• EAN: 9780521101899
• ISBN: 978-0-521-10189-9
• No. of pages: 204
• Series: Studies in Interactional Socio
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics