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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... read more
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This work investigates the phenomenon of 'laughter-talk', that is, the talk preceding and provoking, intentionally or otherwise, a bout of laughter.
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- Alan Partington (Author)
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