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Siriprapa Srithep; Patharaorn Patharakorn – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2024
Through the lens of conversational analysis (CA), humor or funniness is not an inherent property of a message, nor an internal state of any social action, but as something interactionally achieved (Glenn, 2003). Teachers are often encouraged to utilize humor to reduce anxiety, lower affective filters, and make language more "memorable"…
Descriptors: College Students, English Language Learners, Humor, Role Playing
Waleed Nureldeen; Hala Alsabatin; Remon Eskander; Waleed Nasr – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2023
Expressing emotions in a narrative requires a high degree of narrators' involvement in and reflection of personal experiences. An array of complex emotions is reflected in the narrators' use of a wide range of language and paralanguage tools when they share their feelings with their audience. This study attempted to investigate how female…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Personal Narratives, Females, Phrase Structure
Jaroenkitboworn, Kandaporn – rEFLections, 2021
This research aims to analyze Mark Zuckerberg's Commencement Speech at Harvard University to explore its wording and the interaction between the speaker and the audience. A Multimodal Discourse Analysis approach (MDA), and the concepts of intertextuality and interdiscursivity were adopted in this study. The results show that intertextually, Mark…
Descriptors: Speeches, College Graduates, Discourse Analysis, Religious Factors
Çopur, Nimet; Atar, Cihat; Walsh, Steve – Classroom Discourse, 2021
Research on humour in second language classrooms has widely focused on the roles, social functions and markers of humour in interaction; however, little attention has been paid to the sequential mechanisms of humour and the relationship between repair and humour. Therefore, drawing on a conversation analytic approach, this study investigates…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Humor, Interaction, English (Second Language)
Aslan, Erhan – Classroom Discourse, 2020
Even though small talk has been investigated in a variety of business contexts and service encounters, it is understudied in instructional settings. This paper explores the occurrence of small talk in a university chemistry lab between a Chinese international teaching assistant (ITA) and American students. Drawing on naturally occurring…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Chemistry, Science Laboratories, Interpersonal Communication
Amar, Cheikhna; Nanbu, Zachary; Greer, Tim – Classroom Discourse, 2022
Based on interaction recorded in EFL classrooms, this study uses Conversation Analysis to document the post-first deployment of an absurd candidate formulation (ACF) to pursue recipient response at points of interactional delay. ACFs are a form of correction-invitation device in which the question initiator proffers a candidate response that is…
Descriptors: Humor, Political Attitudes, Discourse Analysis, Error Correction
Looney, Stephen Daniel; He, Yingliang – Classroom Discourse, 2021
This paper investigates the use of laughter and smiling to manage (dis)affiliation during two types of disturbances in the interactional unfolding of classrooms: delayed and disaligning responses. The analysis reveals that the sequential position and embodied turn design are integral to understanding the (dis)affiliative work laughter and smiling…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques, Humor, Nonverbal Communication
Lamminpää, Jaakko; Vesterinen, Veli-Matti – International Journal of Science Education, 2018
Studies show that teachers and students use humour when communicating with each other in a science education context. This study investigates the use of humour during a collaborative inquiry laboratory task on an undergraduate chemistry course and an undergraduate physics course. Seven groups of students working on a collaborative inquiry task…
Descriptors: Humor, Cooperative Learning, Chemistry, Physics
Berge, Maria – Research in Science Education, 2017
We all know that they do it, but what do students laugh "about" when learning science together? Although research has shown that students do use humor when they learn science, the role of humor in science education has received little attention. In this study, undergraduate students' laughter during collaborative work in physics has been…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Physics, Humor, Science Instruction
Mayerhofer, Bastian; Maier, Katja; Schacht, Annekathrin – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2016
In garden path (GP) jokes, a first dominant interpretation is detected as incoherent and subsequently substituted by a hidden joke interpretation. Two important factors for the processing of GP jokes are salience of the initial interpretation and accessibility of the hidden interpretation. Both factors are assumed to be affected by contextual…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Cues, Humor, Linguistic Theory
Jwa, Soomin – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2017
Although significant attention has been devoted to the notion of facework and its functions, facework among L2 speakers, whose cultural backgrounds and language proficiencies vary, has remained unexplored. The present study attempts to explore situations of intercultural communication in which facework is used as a way to remedy moments of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Group Dynamics, Intercultural Communication, Humor
Park, Mi Yung – Classroom Discourse, 2016
Using a conversation-analytic approach along with the notions of frame and footing (Goffman 1981), this study examines what strategies teachers use to build rapport with their students in Korean as a foreign language classrooms. It also discusses what kinds of interactional resources they employ in tandem with these strategies. Analysis of…
Descriptors: Korean, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Empathy
Skalicky, Stephen; Berger, Cynthia M.; Crossley, Scott A.; McNamara, Danielle S. – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
A corpus of 313 freshman college essays was analyzed in order to better understand the forms and functions of humor in academic writing. Human ratings of humor and wordplay were statistically aggregated using Factor Analysis to provide an overall "Humor" component score for each essay in the corpus. In addition, the essays were also…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Academic Discourse, Humor, Writing (Composition)
Walker, Ute – Distance Education, 2017
This article examines the discursive construction of social presence and identity in a bilingual collaboration between tertiary distance learners of German in New Zealand and Academic English students in Germany. Drawing on positioning theory, this small-scale study investigated the collaborative practices of a group of students, whose synchronous…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Self Concept, Computer Mediated Communication, Cooperative Learning
Kim, Jung Sook – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Diversity is valued and promoted in contemporary public discourse, but on the other hand, there is a strong tendency to homogenize differences in society. The tension between diversity and homogeneity is palpable on U.S. college campuses as the number of international students has been ever-increasing. A more nuanced approach is needed to grapple…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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