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Publication details [#51571]

Scarpetta, Fabiola and Anna Spagnolli. 2009. The Interactional Context of Humor in Stand-Up Comedy. Research on Language and Social Interaction 42 (3) : 210–230.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Routledge

Annotation

This analysis demonstrates how in four stand-up comedian shows, performed by African American artists in front of black and white audiences in Los Angeles, the interactional context of jokes is constantly oriented to via a colloquial register, fillers and "pags", and modeled as informal environment where jokes on delicate topics, such as sex and race, can be more readily agreed to.