Publications

Publication details [#32039]

Antonopoulou, Eleni and M. Sifianou. 2003. Conversational dynamics of humour: the telephone game in Greek. Journal of Pragmatics 35 (5) : 741–769.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational analysis | conversational opening | humor | pragmatics | telephone conversation

Language as a subject

Greek

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper examines humorous interaction in Greek telephone conversation openings in the light of the principles of conversation analysis concerning telephone interaction and of Raskin's and Attardo's semantico-pragmatic theories of humour.