Laughter in Interaction by Phillip Glenn
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.-
Politeness
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Communication in Medical Care
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Talk at Work
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Discourse Strategies
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Language and Social Identity
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Impoliteness
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The Suspect's Statement
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Conversational Repair and Human Understanding
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How Mediation Works
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Conversation Analysis
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The Morality of Knowledge in Conversation
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Credibility in Court
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The Social Construction of Literacy
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Reporting Talk
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The News Interview
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Action Ascription in Interaction
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Interaction and the Development of Mind
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Grammar in Interaction
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Grammar in Everyday Talk
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In Other Words
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Prosody in Conversation
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Interaction and Grammar
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Multimodal Conduct in the Law
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Matters of Opinion
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Crosstalk and Culture in Sino-American Communication
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Language in Late Modernity
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Gender and Politeness
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Encounters at the Counter
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AIDS Counselling
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Dementia and Language
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Discourse and Identity
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Talking Voices
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Conducting Interaction
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Discourse Markers
'Laughter in Interaction by Phillip Glenn is a good textbook for those interested in laughter in social settings as a research studya 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 ' SIL International
Phillip Glenn is Associate Professor and Chair at the Department of Organizational and Political Communication, Emerson College.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521772068 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521772060 |
| Title | Laughter in Interaction |
| Author | Phillip Glenn |
| Series | Studies In Interactional Sociolinguistics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2003-09-18 |
| Number of pages | 204 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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