Putting aspiration into words: 'Laugh particles', managing descriptive trouble and modulating action

This paper focuses on the phenomenon of ‘laugh particles’ interpolated within words and their role in interaction. It starts with an overviewof the phenomenon, suggesting that it is less analytically presumptive to consider ‘interpolated particles of aspiration’ (IPAs). IPAs: (a) are objects that ma...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jonathan Potter, Alexa Hepburn
Format: Default Article
Published: 2010
Subjects:
Other human society not elsewhere classified
Linguistics not elsewhere classified
Other language, communication and culture not elsewhere classified
Philosophy not elsewhere classified
Laughter
Laugh particles
Aspiration
Action modulation
Conversation analysis
Discursive psychology
Stance
Humour
Linguistics
Language, Communication and Culture not elsewhere classified
Studies in Human Society not elsewhere classified
Philosophy
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2134/9348
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!

Similar Items