One-sided laughter in academic presentations: A small-scale investigation

Discourse Studies

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 561-584

  Politi, Panagiota ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Compliments; Confessions; Face; One sided laughter; Politeness tension; Questions; Self deprecatory humour

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350553765     PISSN: 14614456     EISSN: 14617080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461445609340502     Document Type: Article

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