Gender and joking: On the complexities of women's image politics in humorous narratives

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 55-80

  Kotthoff, Helga ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Contextualization; Conversational humor; Face work; Gender; Narration; Perspectivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033634404     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-2166(99)00031-4     Document Type: Article

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