Many jokes fall outside the province of script theory, because they depend on performance in various ways...
Keywords: Non-verbal humor, performance, Interaction, spoken versus written
09/2004 | Humor - International Journal of Humor Research, Walter de GruyterIn 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 GruyterThis paper is about face-threatening acts (FTAs). It upholds the usefulness of the general concept as first introduced by Brown and Levinson but presents a different view of (1) what an FTA is and how it arises and (2) how to gauge the relative severity of one...
Keywords: face, Facework, face-threatening act, FTA, face-enhancing act, Interaction
07/2007 | Journal of Politeness Research. Language, Behaviour, Culture, Walter de GruyterCette étude se présente comme l'analyse concrète, dans la perspective définie dans
Keywords: dsir, Interaction, regard, contagion, union
02/2007 | Semiotica, Walter de GruyterThe paper reviews and extends the debate at the core of
Keywords: Consciousness, contextualization, conversation, Distributed Cognition, integrational linguistics, Interaction
09/2006 | Semiotica, Walter de GruyterAs students are participating in group work in writing classes, what are they talking about and how is their interaction organized? This study analyzes the structures of talk and embodied interaction in student group work in university writing classes...
Keywords: group work, Interaction, writing, conversation analysis, institutional talk, gesture
04/2007 | Semiotica, Walter de GruyterThis article examines how preferred outcomes are negotiated and factualized during organization development consulting conversations...
Keywords: management consulting, Interaction, factualizing, discursive psychology, conversational analysis
03/2007 | Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, Walter de Gruyter