Laughter in Interaction

By: Phillip J. Glenn

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Hardcover | 13 November 2003

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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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"Recommended." Choice "The book is a typical Cambridge high quality book...a very significant book within its field. As a contribution to the interdisciplinary field of humor research, it presents a wealth of interesting data and several interesting ideas that deserve further elaboration." - Humor, Slavatore Attardo, Youngstown State University

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Non-Fiction Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary Subjects Interdisciplinary Studies Communication Studies Sociology & Anthropology Sociology Sociology & Family & Relationships Comedy & Humour Language & Linguistics Linguistics Sociolinguistics Psychology

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Towards a social interactional approach to laughter
Conversation analysis and the study of laughter
Laughing together
Who laughs first
Laughing At and Laughing With: negotiating participant alignments
Laughing along, resisting: constituting relationship and identity
Closing remarks
References
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