Chapter 4
Conversational humour
Jocular verbal behaviours
Article outline
- 4.1Overview of approaches to teasing – the epitome of jocular verbal behaviours
- 4.2A note on the intracultural and intercultural research into humour
- 4.3Jocular face-threatening and face-supportive acts
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4.3.1Potentiality and genuineness (context and non-verbal cues)
- 4.4Production-evaluation model
- 4.4.1Impolite jocular behaviour
- 4.4.2Non-impolite jocular behaviour
- 4.4.3Non-polite jocular behaviour
- 4.4.4Polite jocular behaviour
- 4.5A corpus-assisted study of teasing: Evidence from the BNC and Ozcorp
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4.5.1Teasing how? Ways of doing teasing
- 4.5.2Teasing why? Functions of teasing
- 4.5.3Teasing and what then? After-teases
- 4.6Summary
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Notes