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Publication details [#65092]

Levisen, Carsten. 2018. Dark, but Danish: Ethnopragmatic perspectives on black humor. Intercultural Pragmatics 15 (4) : 515–532.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversation | ethnopragmatics | humor | laughter | metaphor

Language as a subject

Danish

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IPRG/html

Annotation

This article examines sort humor ‘black humor’, a key notion in Danish conversational humor. Sort humor has come to mean a praxis of co-operative funny non-sense making. Its chief function is to raise or increase a sense of “groupy togetherness”.