Publications

Publication details [#48553]

Habib, Rania. 2008. Humor and disagreement: Identity construction and cross-cultural enrichment. Journal of Pragmatics 40 (6) : 1117–1145.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

crosscultural communication | disagreeing | humor | identity negotiation | pragmatics

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study shows that disagreement and humor (teasing) intertwine to enrich pragmatic and cultural knowledge and negotiate personal identity among near-native English speakers in cross-cultural communication.