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The Linguistics of Laughter: A Corpus-Assisted Study of Laughter-Talk (Routledge Studies in Linguistics) - Tapa blanda

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Partington, Alan

 
9780415544078: The Linguistics of Laughter: A Corpus-Assisted Study of Laughter-Talk (Routledge Studies in Linguistics)
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ISBN 10: 0415544076 ISBN 13: 9780415544078
Editorial: Routledge, 2009

Sinopsis

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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Editorial
Routledge
Año de publicación
2009
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0415544076
ISBN 13 
9780415544078
Encuadernación
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
272
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