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Publication details [#65388]

Haugh, Michael and Danielle Pillet-Shore. 2018. Getting to know you: Teasing as an invitation to intimacy in initial interactions. Discourse Studies 20 (2) : 246–269.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse | interaction | intimacy | irony | teasing

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

Exploring initial interactions amid (American and Australian) speakers of English, this paper displays that teasing not only happens amid intimates or close acquaintances, but also between persons who are becoming acquainted.