Looney-Kim2018

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Looney-Kim2018
BibType ARTICLE
Key Looney-Kim2018
Author(s) Stephen Daniel Looney, Jamie Kim
Title Humor, uncertainty, and affiliation: Cooperative and co-operative action in the university science lab
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Tag(s) EMCA, Humor, Conversation analysis, Classroom interaction
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Year 2018
Language English
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Journal Linguistics and Education
Volume 46
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Pages 56–69
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DOI 10.1016/j.linged.2018.06.003
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Abstract

Drawing on data from an undergraduate science lab at a U.S. university, this paper presents sequences in which students have trouble producing responses and display uncertainty by providing responses that fill an interactional gap but do so humorously. Other students and the teacher orient to the turns as humorous but do not break the IRF sequence. Humorous stances are made observable in embodied actions through disaligning turn design, prosody, gaze, facial expression, and/or laughter. In both second and third turns of IRFs, the decomposition and reuse of materials with modification are an essential practice for designing humorous turn. The findings add to our understanding of the complexity, contingency, and embodied nature of both the IRF and classroom humor.

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