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Publication details [#54756]
Holt, Elizabeth. 2011. On the nature of “laughables”: Laughter as a response to overdone figurative phrases. Pragmatics 21 (3) : 393–410. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
International Pragmatics Association
Journal DOI
10.1075/prag
Annotation
Examining the link between laugh responses and the turns they orient to, this study argues that whether a recipient responds to a prior candidate laughable with laughter, depends upon the nature of his or her contribution to the action sequence.