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Publication details [#8260]
Sacks, Harvey. 1974. An analysis of the course of a joke's telling in conversation. In Bauman, Richard and Joel Sherzer, eds. Explorations in the ethnography of speaking. Cambridge University Press. pp. 337–353. 
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
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Annotation
S. analyzes the sequential organization of the telling of a dirty joke in conversation. The single most decisive feature is said to be that the joke is built in the form of a story.