Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-255) and indexes.
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Book Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Laughter-talk -- research questions and methods; 1. Joke humour theory and language principles; 2 Laughter in running discourse: Shifts of mode, narrative, role and register; 3. Face-work and the in-group; 4. Wordplay, phraseplay and relexicalization; 5. Teasing and verbal duelling; 6. Irony and sarcasm; 7. General conclusions; Appendix 1: Visual puns and verbal-visual puns; Appendix 2: Levels of sarcasm; Appendix 3: Irony and popular historiography; Notes; Bibliography; Name index; Subject index.
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Using a corpus-linguistics approach, this impressive volume examines what speakers try to achieve by producing?laughables? and what hearers are signalling when they produce laughter.