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Nordlit: Tidsskrift i litteratur og kultur, 2023 Starting from my former empirical studies but supplemented with fresh fictional “data” from Lars von Trier’s latest TV series Riget Exodus (2022), I first describe how Danes use humour in very characteristic ways, also in cross-cultural professional ...
Lita Lundquist
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Spontaneous humour and Malaysia’s democratic breakthrough in 2018
The European Journal of Humour Research, 2021 The 2018 Malaysian general election was the first democratic change of government in the nation’s modern history. The victory of the Pakatan Harapan (Alliance of Hope – PH) coalition surprised several observers within and outside the country, especially ...
Shanon Shah
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, 2014 Copyright: 2014 Healey et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source ...
A Cleland +26 more
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The competitive functions of humours in young women’s gossip
Feminismo/s, 2014 Studies on gender and humour in spontaneous conversation have noted that women’s humorous practices in these contexts are characterized by their cooperative features and by their functionality primarily oriented to the reinforcement of solidarity and/or ...
Virginia Acuña Ferreira
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Towards the improvement of augmentative and alternative communication through the modelling of conversation [PDF]
, 2013 Non-speaking people who use Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) systems typically have low rates of communication which reduces their ability to interact with others.
Alm, Norman, Arnott, John L.
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Building rapport and a sense of communal identity through play in a second language classroom [PDF]
, 2016 Many teachers would recognize that a certain amount of laughter and play in a classroom is one of the signs of a socially cohesive and contented group of learners.
Hann, David
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Conversational Grammar- Feminine Grammar? A Sociopragmatic Corpus Study [PDF]
, 2010 One area in language and gender research that has so far received only little attention is the extent to which the sexes make use of what recent corpus research has termed “conversational grammar.” The author’s initial findings have suggested that the ...
Adolphs, Svenia +34 more
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Humour With a Purpose: Creativity With Language in Facebook Status Updates [PDF]
, 2015 This paper examines everyday linguistic creativity and humour in Facebook status updates. Analysis of the updates, collected in 2011 from 60 UK users, shows how people achieve particular humorous tones through creative combinations of lexis and syntax,
Lewin-Jones, Jenny
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Flipping situations and ending plots: An approach to coherence in humour
Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación, 2023 Recent linguistic research on humour and conversation has been successfully achieved on pragmatic and sociolinguistic grounds. My contribution should try to follow this (bi)methodological trail, deepening on the study of conversation and its ...
Amadeu Viana
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Decline and fall:a biological, developmental, and psycholinguistic account of deliberative language processes and ageing [PDF]
, 2011 Background: This paper reviews the role of deliberative processes in language: those language processes that require central resources, in contrast to the automatic processes of lexicalisation, word retrieval, and parsing.
Harley, Trevor A. +2 more
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