In:Humor in Interaction
Edited by Neal R. Norrick and Delia Chiaro
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 182] 2009
► pp. vii–viii
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Published online: 3 July 2009
https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.182.toc
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Table of contents
Introduction: Humor and interaction
Part I: Conversation among friends and family
The occasioning of self-disclosure humor
Direct address as a resource for humor
An interactional approach to irony development
Multimodal and intertextual humor in the media reception situation: The case of watching football on TV
Part II: Doing gender with humor in talk at work
Using humor to do masculinity at work
Boundary-marking humor: Institutional, gender and ethnic demarcation in the workplace
Part III: Failed humor and its interactional effects
Impolite responses to failed humor
Failed humor in conversation: A double voicing analysis
Part IV: Humor in bilingual interactions
Humor and interlanguage in a bilingual elementary school setting
Cultural divide or unifying factor? Humorous talk in the interaction of bilingual, cross-cultural couples
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