Publications

Publication details [#53063]

Mondada, Lorenza, Vassiliki Markaki, Sara Merlino and Florence Oloff. 2010. Laughter in professional meetings: The organization of an emergent ethnic joke. Journal of Pragmatics 42 (6) : 1526–1542.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

business language | ethnic speech event | joke | laughter | meeting

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

Deploying a single case analysis of an emergent ethnic joke -pertaining to the correct pronuniciation of a person's name-, this study examines issues linked to laughter in international business meetings.