TY  - JOUR
U1  - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed)
A1  - Markaki, Vassiliki
A1  - Merlino, Sara
A1  - Mondada, Lorenza
A1  - Oloff, Florence
T1  - Laughter in professional meetings: The organization of an emergent ethnic joke
JF  - Journal of Pragmatics
N2  - On the basis of a single case analysis of the emergence of an ethnic joke, this paper explores issues related to laughter in international business meetings. More particularly, it deals with ways in which a person's name is correctly pronounced. Speakers and co-participants seem to orient towards ‘proper’ ways of vocalizing names and to consequent ‘variations’ or ‘deviations’ from them, making different ways of pronunciation available as a laughable. In making such pronunciation variations available, accountable and recognizable, participants reflexively establish as relevant the multilingual character of the activity, of the participants’ competences and of the setting; conversely, they exploit these multilingual features within specific social practices, leading to laughter.

Our analysis focuses on the contexts of action, the sequential environments and the interactional practices by which the uttering of a name becomes a ‘laughable’ and then a resource for an ethnic joke. Moreover, it explores the implications of transforming the pronunciation into a laughable in terms of the organization of the ongoing activity, changing participation frameworks and membership categorizations. In this sense, it highlights the flexible structure of groups and the way in which laughter reconfigures them through local affiliating and disaffiliating moves, and by making various national categories available and relevant.
KW  - conversation analysis
KW  - laughter
KW  - meetings
KW  - sequential organization
KW  - membership categorization
KW  - Lachen
KW  - Scherz
KW  - Witz
KW  - Aussprache
KW  - Mehrsprachigkeit
KW  - Interaktion
KW  - Konversationsanalyse
KW  - joke
Y1  - 2010
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-109223
SN  - 0378-2166
SS  - 0378-2166
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2010.01.013
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2010.01.013
VL  - 42
IS  - 6
SP  - 1526
EP  - 1542
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -