What's in a laugh? [Elektronische Ressource] : humour, jokes and laughter in the conversational corpus of the BNC / vorgelegt von Ulrike Günther

What’s in a laugh?Humour, jokes and laughter in the conversational corpusof the BNCInaugural DissertationzurErlangung der Doktorwürdeder Philosophischen Fakultäten derAlbert-Ludwigs-Universitätzu Freiburg i. Br.vorgelegt vonUlrike Güntheraus EibelstadtErstgutachter: Prof. Dr. Christian MairZweitgutachter: Prof. Dr. Bernd KortmannVorsitzender des Promotionsausschussesdes Gemeinsamen Ausschussses derPhilosophischen Fakultäten: Prof. Dr. Ulrich RebstockDatum der Fachprüfung im Promotionsfach: 28. Juni 2002Copyright © 2003 Ulrike K. GüntheriiiContentsAcknowledgements1 INTRODUCTION 11.1 Aims and scope of the study 21.2 The corpora 41.2.1 The ‘Conversational Corpus’ of the BNC 41.2.2 The Bergen corpus of London teenage language (COLT) 51.3 Theories of humour 61.3.1 Release Theories 71.3.2 Incongruity Theories 91.3.3 Superiority Theories 121.4 Functions of humour 131.4.1 Psychological and physiological functions 131.4.2 Social functions 151.4.3 Interpersonal functions 161.4.4 Summary 172 HUMOUR IN COMMUNICATION: THEORETICAL ANDMETHODOLOGICAL ISSUES 212.1 Linguistic framework / model of communication 212.2 Conversation Analysis 262.2.1 Turn-taking structure 262.2.2 Turn-taking structure and conversational humour 272.3 Statistics and CA: two incompatible disciplines? 332.3.1 The micro-macro issue 33CA ‘proper’ 33Criticism 352.3.2 Integrating CA and quantitative procedures 362.3.