Author: Alan Partington
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0415381665
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0415381665
The Linguistics of Laughter: A Corpus-Assisted Study of Laughter-Talk (Routledge Studies in Linguistics)
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. Download The Linguistics of Laughter: A Corpus-Assisted Study of Laughter-Talk (Routledge Studies in Linguistics) from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. 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 face or save one's own. Although laughter and humour are by no means always related, the book also considers the implications these corpus-based observations may have about humour theory in general. As one of the first works to have recourse Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.
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