Teasing at the White House: A corpus-assisted study of face work in performing and responding to teases

Text and Talk

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 771-792

  Partington, Alan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b Department of Modern Foreign Literatures and Languages ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

Corpora; Corpus assisted discourse studies; Laughter; Politeness; Politics; Teasing

Indexed keywords

EID: 57349145830     PISSN: 18607330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/TEXT.2008.039     Document Type: Review

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