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Download full textReddington, Elizabeth – Working Papers in TESOL & Applied Linguistics, 2015
The past two decades have seen a growing interest in the role of humor and play in second-language (L2) learning and teaching. Drawing on the methods of conversation analysis, discourse analysis, and sociolinguistics, researchers have sought to understand how teachers and students "do" humor and play, what functions humor and play serve,…
Descriptors: Humor, Play, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Peer reviewedVasconcellos, Muriel – Babel: International Journal of Translation, 1986
Humor--and communication itself--when translating from one language to another, depends on an accumulation of shared understandings about how people say things in a given culture. Examples are given in translations of Portuguese to English and English to Portuguese. (CB)
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Deep Structure, Discourse Analysis, English
