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Direct linkNesi, Hilary – Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 2012
This paper analyses laughter in spoken academic discourse, with the aim of discovering why lecturers provoke laughter in their lectures. A further purpose of the paper is to identify episodes in British data which may differ from those in other cultural contexts where other lecturing practices prevail, and thus to inform the design of study skills…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Academic Discourse, Multilingualism, Intimacy
