Collaborative co-construction of humorous interaction among ELF speakers
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Yumi Matsumoto
Yumi Matsumoto is a PhD candidate of Applied Linguistics at the Pennsylvania State University. She has taught at elementary and secondary schools in Japan and is currently teaching at undergraduate and graduate levels in the United States. Her research interests include English as a lingua franca, gesture analysis, humorous interaction, conversation analysis, teacher identity development, and second language writing.
Abstract
This qualitative study analyzes the construction of humor in interactions of two dyads of English as a lingua franca (ELF) speakers who are female graduate students in the United States. Using a sequential analysis, this study closely investigates how these ELF speakers are co-constructing humor in their interactions. In particular, humorous talk including contextual cues such as joint laughing, smiling, and abruptness of talk are examined in sequential contexts. The humorous talk data exhibit the skillful use of humor to achieve and maintain solidarity and to minimize possible disagreement among these ELF speakers. In other words, collaborative co-construction of humorous interactions demonstrates ELF speakers' “complex and skillful accomplishment” (Firth 2009: 158) of communicative success in English.
About the author
Yumi Matsumoto is a PhD candidate of Applied Linguistics at the Pennsylvania State University. She has taught at elementary and secondary schools in Japan and is currently teaching at undergraduate and graduate levels in the United States. Her research interests include English as a lingua franca, gesture analysis, humorous interaction, conversation analysis, teacher identity development, and second language writing.
©2014 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Articles
- ELF couples and automatic code-switching
- “Maybe just things we grew up with”: linguistic and cultural hybridity in ELF couple talk
- Lexical and organizational features in novice and experienced ELF presentations
- Collaborative co-construction of humorous interaction among ELF speakers
- “I just wanted to give a partly answer”: capturing and exploring word class variation in ELF data
- An evaluation of the pronunciation target in Hong Kong's ELT curriculum and materials: influences from WE and ELF?
- The complexity of ELF
- JELF Talks
- Dialogue between ELF and the field of language policy and planning
- Book Reviews
- Book Review
- Book Review
- Book Review
- Book Review
- Book Review
- Conference Announcements
- ELF 7 announcement
- ChangeE announcement
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Articles
- ELF couples and automatic code-switching
- “Maybe just things we grew up with”: linguistic and cultural hybridity in ELF couple talk
- Lexical and organizational features in novice and experienced ELF presentations
- Collaborative co-construction of humorous interaction among ELF speakers
- “I just wanted to give a partly answer”: capturing and exploring word class variation in ELF data
- An evaluation of the pronunciation target in Hong Kong's ELT curriculum and materials: influences from WE and ELF?
- The complexity of ELF
- JELF Talks
- Dialogue between ELF and the field of language policy and planning
- Book Reviews
- Book Review
- Book Review
- Book Review
- Book Review
- Book Review
- Conference Announcements
- ELF 7 announcement
- ChangeE announcement
