Publications

Publication details [#51066]

Bell, Nancy. 2009. Responses to failed humor. Journal of Pragmatics 41 (9) : 1825–1836.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

humor | interjection | pragmatics | response | social relationship

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study explores response types to failed humor -such as laughter, metalinguistic comments, and interjections- and the effect of age, gender and social relationship (only for the latter, strong effects were found).