
The Linguistics of Laughter
Alan Partington
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A Corpus-Assisted Study of Laughter-Talk
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The Linguistics of Laughter examines what speakers try to achieve by producing 'laughter-talk' (the talk preceding and eliciting an episode of laughter) and, by using abundant examples from language corpora, what hearers are signalling when they produce laughter.
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