Chapter 8. Interviewees’ attitudes to jocularity

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Chapter 8
Interviewees’ attitudes to jocularity

Article outline

8.1The metapragmatics of jocular verbal behaviours
8.2Different perspectives in the interviewees’ evaluations
- 8.2.1From the target’s point of view
- 8.2.2From the instigator’s point of view
- 8.2.3From the non-participant’s point of view
8.3Funny_p vs funny_n-p
8.4Tendencies in interviewees’ evaluations of jocularity and impoliteness in the Big Brother houses
- 8.4.1Two-party Australian interaction: “The treadmill”
  - 8.4.1.1Evaluations of the instigator’s comment
  - 8.4.1.2Evaluations of the target’s reaction
  - 8.4.1.3Interviewees’ feelings
  - 8.4.1.4Interviewees’ reaction
- 8.4.2Multi-party British interaction: “McDonald’s on the pyramid”
  - 8.4.2.1Evaluations of the instigator’s comment
  - 8.4.2.2Evaluations of the target’s reaction
  - 8.4.2.3Interviewees’ feelings
  - 8.4.2.4Interviewees’ reaction
8.5Multi-party Australian-British interaction: Intracultural and intercultural evaluations
- 8.5.1Intracultural evaluations
  - 8.5.1.1Australians about Australians
  - 8.5.1.2The British about the British
- 8.5.2Intercultural evaluations
  - 8.5.2.1The British about Australians
  - 8.5.2.2Australians about the British
8.6Summary
Notes