Laughter in professional meetings: The organization of an emergent ethnic joke

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1526-1542

  Markaki, Vassiliki ^a   Merlino, Sara ^a   Mondada, Lorenza ^a   Oloff, Florence ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LUMIÈRE LYON 2   (France)

Author keywords

Conversation analysis; Joke; Laughter; Meetings; Membership categorization; Sequential organization

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952889190     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2010.01.013     Document Type: Article

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