Abstract
AbstractMany researchers claim joking and laughter to be an adjacency pair. There are, however, a range of strategies used for supporting humor in conversation, of which laughter is just one. This paper uses natural conversational data to illustrate a variety of humor support strategies. Common support strategies include contributing more humor, playing along with the gag, using echo or overlap, offering sympathy and contradicting self-deprecating humor.There are four implicatures associated with full support of humor:
Subject
General Psychology,Linguistics and Language,Sociology and Political Science,Language and Linguistics
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