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Publication details [#53059]

Jefferson, Gail. 2010. Sometimes a frog in your throat is just a frog in your throat: Gutturals as (sometimes) laughter-implicative. Journal of Pragmatics 42 (6) : 1476–1484.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

correction | interpretation | laughter | misreading | utterance

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study discusses how guttural features can have various causes (e.g., the frog in the throat), and how treating them wholesale as laughter-implicative, may constitute a misreading of the other's talk, which subsequently needs to be corrected.