Humor and disagreement: Identity construction and cross-cultural enrichment

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1117-1145

  Habib, Rania ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross cultural communication; Disagreement; Educational tools; Humor, teasing; Identity, relational identity display and development (RID); Language socialization

Indexed keywords

EID: 42649097210     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2008.02.005     Document Type: Article

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