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Publication details [#67049]
Willoughby, Louisa, Shimako Iwasaki, Howard Manns and Meredith Bartlett. 2019. Are you trying to be funny? Communicating humour in deafblind conversations. Discourse Studies 21 (5) : 584–602.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
SAGE Publications
Journal WWW
Annotation
This paper examines in detail how humour is negotiated in conversations among deafblind Australians who are fluent users of tactile Australian Sign Language (Auslan). Drawing on Conversation Analytic principles, it outlines the ad hoc and more conventionalised signals deafblind signers employ to signal amusement.