Humor in Interaction

Abstract

1. Introduction: Humor and interaction (by Norrick, Neal R.) 2. Part I: Conversation among friends and family 3. The occasioning of self-disclosure humor (by Ervin-Tripp, Susan M.) 4. Direct address as a resource for humor (by Norrick, Neal R.) 5. An interactional approach to irony development (by Kotthoff, Helga) 6. Multimodal and intertextual humor in the media reception situation: The case of watching football on TV (by Gerhardt, Cornelia) 7. Part II: Doing gender with humor in talk at work 8. Using humor to do masculinity at work (by Schnurr, Stephanie) 9. Boundary-marking humor: Institutional, gender and ethnic demarcation in the workplace (by Vine, Bernadette) 10. Part III: Failed humor and its interactional effects 11. Impolite responses to failed humor (by Bell, Nancy) 12. Failed humor in conversation: A double voicing analysis (by Priego-Valverde, Beatrice) 13. Part IV: Humor in bilingual interactions 14. Humor and interlanguage in a bilingual elementary school setting (by Kersten, Kristin) 15. Cultural divide or unifying factor?: Humorous talk in the interaction of bilingual, cross-cultural couples (by Chiaro, Delia) 16. Name index 17. Subject index