The Linguistics of Laughter: A Corpus-Assisted Study of Laughter-Talk by Alan Partington

The Linguistics of Laughter: A Corpus-Assisted Study of Laughter-Talk

Routledge Studies in Linguistics

Alan Partington

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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 p...

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