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Query:	linguistic description of conversational humor
Author:	Mary Zdrojkowski
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Linguistic LingField(s):	Sociolinguistics
Summary:	First, thanks to all who responded to my query about defining and recognizing humor in conversation: Ghil `ad Zuckermann, Rachel Giora, Tomas Riad, Cornelia Gerhardt, Nancy D. Bell, Herbert F.W. Stahlke, Jeanelle Barrett, and Fay Wouk. All suggestions were helpful and are summarized below. People to contact who research humor: Don Nilsen, Victor Raskin, Salvatore Attardo, and Martin Lampert all either currently are or have been in editorial positions for THE academic journal dealing with humor scholarship: HUMOR: The International Journal of Humor Research. There are 17 volumes. Janet Holmes: researches humor in workplace interaction Jen Hay: gender and humor Rachel Giora: psycholinguistics of verbal humor and irony Nancy Bell: dissertation on Using and Understanding Humor in a Second Language: A Case Study Print materials: Victor Raskin’s Semantic Mechanisms of Humor Jen Hay’s MA Thesis: Gender and Humor: Beyond a Joke HUMOR: The International Journal of Humor Research Neal Norrick: Conversational joking: Humor in everyday talk Suggestions: Use inter-rater reliability measure to identify humor and apply a statistical measure to the ratings to determine the degree of agreement

LL Issue:	16.596
Date Posted:	01-Mar-2005
Original Query:	Read original query
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