Identifying action: Laughter in non-humorous reported speech

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1303-1312

  Clift, Rebecca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conversation Analysis; Interaction; Laughter; Reported speech

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864291142     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2012.06.005     Document Type: Article

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