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Understanding Conversational Joking: A cognitive-pragmatic study based on Russian interactions
Nadine Thielemann
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 310] 2020
► pp. 13–104

Chapter 2
Conversational joking from a discourse-analytic perspective

Article outline
  • 2.1Reconstructing laughables
    • 2.1.1The equivocal nature of laughter
    • 2.1.2Practices for the construction of humorous laughables
    • 2.1.3Problems and challenges with the laughable-approach
  • 2.2Contextualizing humor
    • 2.2.1What exactly is contextualized in joking?
    • 2.2.2Contextualization cues for humor in Russian conversations
      • 2.2.2.1Prosodic and paralinguistic cues
      • 2.2.2.2Linguistic cues
      • 2.2.2.3Pragmatic cues
      • 2.2.2.4Cues relating to content
  • 2.3Summary and interim conclusions
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