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Conversational Humour and (Im)politeness: A pragmatic analysis of social interaction
Valeria Sinkeviciute
[Topics in Humor Research 8] 2019
► pp. 31–60

Chapter 3
Data

From corpora to reality television to interviews

Article outline
  • 3.1Corpora: The British National Corpus (BNC) and the Macquarie Dictionary database of Australian English (Ozcorp)
  • 3.2Reality television: Introducing Big Brother
    • 3.2.1 Big Brother: The format and some local differences
    • 3.2.2 Big Brother Australia 2012 and Big Brother UK 2012
  • 3.3Reality television, performance and real life
  • 3.4Reality television, (genuine) impoliteness, entertainment and (failed) humour
    • 3.4.1 Big Brother: An impoliteness-oriented context?
  • 3.5Qualitative interviewing
    • 3.5.1The use of qualitative interviewing in this research
  • 3.6Summary
  • Notes