Evaluating experience in funny ways: How friends bond through conversational hum

Text and Talk

Volumn 33, Issue 4-5, 2013, Pages 553-574

  Knight, Naomi K ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

affiliation; appraisal; bonding; conversation; evaluation; humor; SFL

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884563547     PISSN: 18607330     EISSN: 18607349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/text-2013-0025     Document Type: Article

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