Publications

Publication details [#64352]

Ames, Kate. 2018. ‘Ironic detachment’: Locals laughing ‘at’ the local on commercial breakfast radio. Journal of Pragmatics 123 : 1–10.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational analysis | humor | irony | laughter | radio

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

Locally-based Australian radio hosts adopt performative roles as a way of objectivity. Humor use is aligned with role performance that embodies community membership. Humor use in role allows for critique of local place/people to diminish the risk of inconvenient talk or offense.