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Factors predicting the perceived effectiveness of politicians' use of humor during a debate

Prior research on humor in the political context has focused primarily on people's reactions to humor about politicians in the form of cartoons or jokes, or on specific politicians' use of humor as a rhetorical strategy...

Keywords: Attribution theory, Communication, political humor, public speaking

05/2007 | Humor - International Journal of Humor Research, Walter de Gruyter

Face as relational and interactional: A communication framework for research on face, facework, and politeness

In a recent re-examination of face as related to politeness, Bargiela-Chiappini (2003: 1463) argues for examining “cultural conceptualizations of the social self and its relationship to others as an alternative and possibly more fruitful way of studying the relevance and dynamics of ‘face’ and ‘facework’ in interpersonal contacts”...

Keywords: face, Facework, relationship, Interaction, Communication, politeness

07/2006 | Journal of Politeness Research. Language, Behaviour, Culture, Walter de Gruyter

On the linguistic expression of subjectivity: Towards a sign-centered approach

The various assumptions on which linguistic elements, structures, or usages are subjective in which respect seem to agree in relating subjectivity to a speaking subject...

Keywords: subjectivity, Communication, autopoiesis, semiosis, observer, interpretant

01/2008 | Semiotica, Walter de Gruyter

Semiotic silence: Its use as a conflictmanagement strategy in intimate relationships

Communication scholars' early interest in the function of silence in human interactions produces different theorizations about the phenomenon...

Keywords: Communication, conflict management, intimate relationships, silence, semiotic phenomenology