Opening book details…
Can I read The Linguistics of Laughter: A Corpus-Assisted Study of Laughter-Talk (Routledge Studies in Linguistics) on EtoBox?
The Linguistics of Laughter: A Corpus-Assisted Study of Laughter-Talk (Routledge Studies in Linguistics) by Alan Partington; is a language available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Linguistics of Laughter: A Corpus-Assisted Study of Laughter-Talk (Routledge Studies in Linguistics) about?
<p>The Linguistics of Laughter examines what speakers try to achieve by producing ‘laughter-talk’ (the talk preceding and eliciting an episode of laughter) and, by using abundant examples from language corpora, what hearers are signalling when they produce laughter.</p><p>In particular, Alan Partington focuses on the tactical use of laughter-talk to achieve specific rhetorical, and strategic, ends: for example, to construct an identity, to make an argumentative point, to threaten someone else’s
Who reads The Linguistics of Laughter: A Corpus-Assisted Study of Laughter-Talk (Routledge Studies in Linguistics)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Alan Partington;
- Publisher
- Routledge, an imprint of taylor & francis Books ltd
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780415381666
- Category
- language
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, Linguistics, Language Learning
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
Other editions & translations
More by Alan Partington;
Browse all works by Alan Partington;
Similar books
- Trends in Teenage Talk: Corpus Compilation, Analysis and Findings (Studies in Corpus Linguistics) — Stenström, Anna-Brita; Hasund, Ingrid Kristine; Andersen, Gisle (2002)
- The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics (Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics) — Anne O'Keeffe, Michael J. McCarthy, (2021)
- Corpora in Cognitive Linguistics: Corpus-based Approaches to Syntax And Lexis (Trends in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs) (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs) — Gries, Stefan Th.; Stefanowitsch, Anatol (2006)
- How To Use Corpora In Language Teaching (studies In Corpus Linguistics) — Sinclair, John McHardy (2004)
- A Corpus-driven Study of Discourse Intonation: The Hong Kong Corpus of Spoken English (Prosodic) (Studies in Corpus Linguistics) — Winnie Cheng, Chris Greaves, and Martin Warren (2008)
- The Semantic Field of Modal Certainty: A Corpus-Based Study of English Adverbs (Topics in English Linguistics) — Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen, Karin Aijmer (2007)