Laughter in Interaction / Edition 1

by Phillip Glenn

Overview

Bringing together twenty-five years of research on the sequential organization of laughter in everyday talk, Phillip Glenn analyzes recordings and transcripts to indicate the finely-detailed coordination of human laughter. He demonstrates that its occurrence, relative to talk and other activities, reveals much about its emergent meaning and effects. The book considers laughter's significant role in how people display, respond to, and revise identities and relationships.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521772068
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	09/18/2003
Series:	Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics , #18
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	204
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.63(d)

About the Author

Phillip Glenn is Associate Professor and Chair at the Department of Organizational and Political Communication, Emerson College.

Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. Towards a social interactional approach to laughter; 2. Conversation analysis and the study of laughter; 3. Laughing together; 4. Who laughs first; 5. Laughing at and laughing with: negotiating participant alignments; 6. Laughing along, resisting: constituting relationship and identity; 7. Closing remarks; Notes; References; Index.

Editorial Reviews

"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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