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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      08 August 2009
      18 September 2003
      ISBN:
      9780511519888
      9780521772068
      9780521101899
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511519888
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.413kg, 204 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.27kg, 204 Pages
      • Series:
      Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics (18)
      Subjects:
      Linguistic Anthropology, Sociolinguistics, Language and Linguistics
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    Series:
    Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics (18)
    Subjects:
    Linguistic Anthropology, Sociolinguistics, Language and Linguistics
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    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. He demonstrates that its production and placement, relative to talk and other activities, reveal much about its emergent meaning and accomplishments. The book shows how the 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 chapter examines the contribution of laughter to sequences of conversational intimacy and play and to the invocation of gender. Engaging and original, the book shows how this seemingly insignificant part of human communication turns out to play a highly significant role in how people display, respond to and revise identities and relationships.

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    'Laughter in Interaction by Phillip Glenn is a good textbook for those interested in laughter in social settings as a research study. … a tremendous amount of knowledge placed in a small book of a little over 150 pages. … Even though the book is short, it contains much information. … Glenn has done a fine job of managing a very complex subject …'

    Source: SIL International

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