Publications
Publication details [#60785]
Moalla, Asma. 2015. Intercultural strategies to co-construct and interpret humor. International Journal of Applied Linguistics 25 (3) : 366–385. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Journal WWW
Annotation
This study on how humor is co-constructed and achieved in talk-in interaction amid speakers of American English and Tunisians acquiring English, reveals how interactional problems in interdiscourse humor, were solved via accommodation strategies, jointly employed to ease and mitigate communication and to settle differences and elude misinterpretation.