Joint construction of humour in quasi-conversational interaction

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Joint construction of humour in quasi-conversational interaction
Original language description
This article analyses quasi-conversational interaction in live text commentary, with a focus on the role of humour and its joint construction by discourse participants. The analysis is based on a minute-by-minute sports report in the online version of the British newspaper the Guardian. Thanks to the inclusion of text segments by readers, the Guardian's match reports resemble a chat discussion with a strong conversational nature. Tracing the development of a single thematic line across the whole of thecommentary, the article documents how elements of humour are woven into the text as joint constructions by the commentator and the readers. It argues that the use of humour is linked to one of the main functions of the genre, i.e., to amuse the readers.Moreover, humour and conversational joking also assist in constructing the virtual community of sports fans, often doing so in markedly local (British/Irish) terms and despite the necessarily global nature of the medium.
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Publication year
2009
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name
Making Sense of Humour. Sylwia Dzereń-Glowacka and Alina Kwiatkowska (eds.)
ISBN
978-83-89935-94-6
Number of pages of the result
15
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Number of pages of the book
184
Publisher name
Naukowe Wydawnictwo Piotrkowskie
Place of publication
Piotrków Trybunalski
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