Laughter in InteractionLaughter in Interaction is an illuminating and lively account of how and why people laugh during conversation. Bringing together twenty-five years of research on the sequential organisation of laughter in everyday talk, Glenn analyses recordings and transcripts to show the finely detailed co-ordination of human laughter. He demonstrates that its production and placement, relative to talk and other activities, reveal much about its emergent meaning and accomplishments. The book shows how the participants in a conversation move from a single laugh to laughing together, how the matter of 'who laughs first' implicates orientation to social activities and how interactants work out whether laughs are more affiliative or hostile. The final chapter examines the contribution of laughter to sequences of conversational intimacy and play and to the invocation of gender. Engaging and original, the book shows how this seemingly insignificant part of human communication turns out to play a highly significant role in how people display, respond to and revise identities and relationships. |
Contents
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1 Towards a social interactional approach to laughter | 7 |
2 Conversation analysis and the study of laughter | 35 |
3 Laughing together | 53 |
4 Who laughs first | 85 |
negotiating participant alignments | 112 |
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activities affiliation alignment behavior bisociation Car Talk Cara CARLIN CHAND Chandler Chapter claims communication context conversation analysis current speaker laughing disaffiliation ED JOYCE environment error ethnomethodology example extend shared laughter female funny Gail Jefferson gender Glenn Gregory Bateson HAH HAH HAH hearable heh heh heh Hopper huh huh huh humor impropriety inbreath initiating shared laughter instances intimacy Jefferson Jenny Jerry JILL joke laugh invitation laugh particles laugh tracks laughable laughter in interaction male MASON non-laughing organization of laughter overlap participant orientation placement play playful possible produces punch line question Ray Magliozzi recipient laughter referent relationship relevant resistance response Rick Sacks Schegloff second laugh sequential organization sexual shared laugh shift smiling someone Sondra sound speech STAN Stanley stream of laughter talk on topic Tarzans teasing theory tion transcript turn at talk two-party UTCL utterance VICKI