Oral genres of humor: On the dialectic of genre knowledge and creative authoring

Pragmatics

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 263-296

  Kotthoff, Helga ^a,b  

^a Pädagogsche Huchschule Freiburg   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Artistry; Conversational humour; Emergent construction; Genre; Intertextuality; Keying; Narration; Performance; Teasing; Typification hybridization

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547813239     PISSN: 10182101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/prag.17.2.04kot     Document Type: Article

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