Looney-Kim2018
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| 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 |
| URL | Link |
| 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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