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Publication details [#66829]

Sinkeviciute, Valeria. 2019. Juggling identities in interviews: The metapragmatics of ‘doing humour’. Journal of Pragmatics 152 : 216–227.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
comment | humor | identity construction | interview | metapragmatic term | metapragmatics | native speaker
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
Journal WWW
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Annotation

This article examines the interplay between humour and identity construction. It focuses on metapragmatic comments of native speakers of Australian and British English in the interview data. Three types of identity are explored: collective, individual and situated.