Thomas J. Flamson
List of John Benjamins publications for which Thomas J. Flamson plays a role.
Article
2013 Signals of humor: Encryption and laughter in social interaction Developments in Linguistic Humour Theory, Dynel, Marta (ed.), pp. 49–74 | Article
Laughter and humor often co-occur in social interaction, but their functional relationship is widely debated, and not well understood. The encryption theory of humor (Flamson and Barrett 2008) proposes that intentionally produced humor honestly signals the fact that speaker and audience share… read more