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Publication details [#11875]

Boxer, Diana and Florencia Cortés-Conde. 1997. From Bonding to Biting: Conversational Joking and Identity Display. Journal of Pragmatics 27 (3) : 275–294. 20 pp.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
conflict | conversational move | ethnography of speaking | gender | joking | social distance
Language as a subject
English, American | Spanish, Argentinian
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166
Journal WWW
www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

Two types of moves in conversational joking are observed, leading the authors to conclude that joking develops relational identity among participants. This social identity is conditioned by gender and social distance.