Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Contributors ix
4. Introduction: Humor and interaction xiii
5. Part I: Conversation among friends and family
6. The occasioning of self-disclosure humor 3
7. Direct address as a resource for humor 29
8. An interactional approach to irony development 49
9. Multimodal and intertextual humor in the media reception situation 79
10. Part II: Doing gender with humor in talk at work
11. Using humor to do masculinity at work 101
12. Boundary-marking humor 125
13. Part III: Failed humor and its interactional effects
14. Impolite responses to failed humor 143
15. Failed humor in conversation 165
16. Part IV: Humor in bilingual interactions
17. Humor and interlanguage in a bilingual elementary school setting 187
18. Cultural divide or unifying factor? 211
19. Name index 233
20. Subject index 237