Laughter and Image’s Menacing Acts
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| Format: | artículo original |
| Status: | Versión publicada |
| Publication Date: | 2016 |
| Description: | This article examines laughter as a politeness strategy when it appears in face-threatening acts. The data comes from a video-recorded and naturally occurring interaction from the everyday context between three close friends. Eighty-one instances of laughter were found in face-threatening acts such as conversational inappropriateness, risky statements, criticism, and disagreement. The pragmalinguistic analysis reveals that the laughther appeared in face-threatening acts works as politeness strategy while strengthening social face, mitigating a potential attack or reinforcing a face threatening. |
| Country: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Institution: | Universidad de Costa Rica |
| Repositorio: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Language: | Español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/26118 |
| Online Access: | https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/filyling/article/view/26118 |
| Keyword: | laughter politeness strategy social face face-threatening acts pragmalinguistics risa estrategia de cortesía imagen social actos amenazantes de imagen pragmalingüística |