Jefferson2010
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Jefferson2010 |
| Author(s) | Gail Jefferson |
| Title | Sometimes a frog in your throat is just a frog in your throat: Gutturals as (sometimes) laughter-implicative |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Laughter |
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| Year | 2010 |
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| Journal | Journal of Pragmatics |
| Volume | 42 |
| Number | 6 |
| Pages | 1476–1484 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.pragma.2010.01.012 |
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Abstract
Jefferson (1979, 1984, 1985, 2004, Jefferson et al., 1987) has in a series of papers described the ‘interactional machinery of laughter’, documenting its sequential co-construction. In this paper, data are discussed where guttural sounds produced by one participant are treated as laughter-relevant by a co-participant, who then laughs in response. Sometimes, however, the guttural features can have quite different causes (e.g., the frog in the throat) and treating them as laughter-relevant misconstrues the other’s talk. The paper shows the work participants may do in subsequent talk to put things to rights; i.e., on the one participant’s part to show that no laughter was intended, and on the co-participant’s part to show understanding thereof.
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