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Publication details [#57464]

Bell, Nancy. 2013. Responses to incomprehensible humor. Journal of Pragmatics 57 (1) : 176–189.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communicative failure | gender | humor | response | social relationship

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This article discusses how common reactions to a failed joke, like non-verbal responses, silence, laughter, punch line repetition and explicit non-comprehension expressions, significantly diverge according to gender and social relationship.