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TEXT Volume 17: 2 (1997) Mouton de Gruyter * Berlin * New York Mahmoud A. Al-Khatib .......... Provoking arguments for provoking laughter: A case study of the candid camera TV show Moshe Azar .................... Concession relations as argumentation John A. Dixon, Steve Reicher, and Don H. Foster ............. Ideology, geography, racial exclusion: The squatter camp as `blot on the landscape' Alessandro Duranti ............ Polyphonic discourse: Overlapping in Samoan ceremonial greetings Matthew Kops .................. `Order', as background knowledge and assumption Michael McCarthy and Ronald Carter ................. Grammar, tails, and affect: Constructing expressive choices in discourse _________________________________________________________________________ Mouton de Gruyter Walter de Gruyter, Inc. Postfach 30 34 21 200 Saw Mill River Road D-10728 Berlin Hawthorne, NY 10532 Germany USA Fax: +49 (0)30 26005-351 Fax: +1 914 747-1326 email: moutonMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issuedegruyter.de This and further publications can also be ordered via World Wide Web: http://www.deGruyter.de