Cecilia E. Ford | University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States
Barbara A. Fox | University of Colorado-Boulder, United States
This study explores a range of interrelated semiotic resources for constructing a “laughable,” which we define as one or more utterances proffered by a speaker and inviting recipient laughter or other laugh related displays. These semiotic resources, in and around the talk, include a range of phonetic practices we initially characterize as smiley voice, breath particles, small modulations of pitch and loudness, high pitch, audible breathing, and laryngealization, as well as visible bodily practices such as leaning, smiling, shoulder shaking and gaze aversion. We also find that particular activities are constructed as part of the laughable, including exaggerations and contrasts. The current report is thus an initial foray into an extraordinarily complex realm of social interaction.
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Beach, Wayne A. & Erin Prickett
2017. Laughter, Humor, and Cancer: Delicate Moments and Poignant Interactional Circumstances. Health Communication 32:7 ► pp. 791 ff.
2022. Erinnerungsmarkierungen in Zeitzeugenerzählungen. Episodische Rekonstruktion und epistemische Authentifizierung in Gesprächen mit Überlebenden der NS-Zwangsarbeitslager. Romanistisches Jahrbuch 73:1 ► pp. 108 ff.
Haugh, Michael
2014. Jocular Mockery as Interactional Practice in Everyday Anglo-Australian Conversation. Australian Journal of Linguistics 34:1 ► pp. 76 ff.
Haugh, Michael & Danielle Pillet-Shore
2018. Getting to know you: Teasing as an invitation to intimacy in initial interactions. Discourse Studies 20:2 ► pp. 246 ff.
Hoey, Elliott M.
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Holt, Elizabeth
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Holt, Elizabeth
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2021. Laughter and smiling: sequential resources for managing delayed and disaligning responses. Classroom Discourse 12:4 ► pp. 319 ff.
Nguyen, Hanh thi
2019. Turn Design as Longitudinal Achievement: Learning on the Shop Floor. In Conversation Analytic Research on Learning-in-Action [Educational Linguistics, 38], ► pp. 77 ff.
thi Nguyen, Hanh
2018. A Longitudinal Perspective on Turn Design: From Role-Plays to Workplace Patient Consultations. In Longitudinal Studies on the Organization of Social Interaction, ► pp. 195 ff.
Romaniuk, Tanya
2016. On the relevance of gender in the analysis of discourse: A case study from Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential bid in 2007–2008. Discourse & Society 27:5 ► pp. 533 ff.
Salomaa, Elina, Dorien Van De Mieroop & Esa Lehtinen
2017. Le développement de la compétence d’interaction en langue seconde : état des lieux et illustrations empiriques. Revue française de linguistique appliquée Vol. XXII:2 ► pp. 127 ff.
2022. Multimodal amusement resonance as a conversation interactional device. East Asian Pragmatics 7:3 ► pp. 333 ff.
van Braak, Marije & Mike Huiskes
2022. ‘Doing being an expert’: A conversation analysis of expertise enactments in experience discussions in medical education. Linguistics and Education 69 ► pp. 101052 ff.
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