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Petitjean, Cécile; González-Martínez, Esther – Classroom Discourse, 2015
This article deals with communicative functions of laughter and smiling in the classroom studied using a conversation analytical approach. Analysing a corpus of video-recorded French first-language lessons, we show how students sequentially organise laughter and smiling, and use them to preempt, solve or assess a problematic action. We also focus…
Descriptors: French, Humor, Discourse Analysis, Video Technology