How English-learners joke with native speakers: An interactional sociolinguistic perspective on humor as collaborative discourse across cultures

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1361-1385

  Davies, Catherine Evans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conversation; Crosscultural communication; Discourse; Humor; Interactional sociolinguistics; Joking; Language socialization

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038714313     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-2166(02)00181-9     Document Type: Article

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