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- Title
Initiating Shared Laughter in Multi-Party Conversations.
- Authors
Glenn, Phillip J.
- Abstract
This study examines the conversational organization of shared laughter. Previous studies have shown that participants routinely create shared laughter through a sequence of first laugh invitation and second laugh response. The present study reports that, while in twoparty interactions such a sequence routinely occurs with current speaker providing the first laugh, in multi-party interactions someone other than current speaker generally provides the first laugh. The distribution of "who laughs first" is influenced in part by conversational activities in which shared laughter gets embedded, such as teasing or story and joke-telling. By letting someone else laugh first, current speakers in multi-party interactions may orient to a bias against laughing at one's own laughables. By this distributional feature, multi-party shared laughter comas closer in its organization to one-to-many communicative events, such as stand-up comedy. Thus laughter may be most fully realized in its small group manifestations rather than as a one-to-one phenomenon.
- Subjects
LECTURERS; CONVERSATION; COLLOQUIAL language; ETIQUETTE; ORAL communication; CONVERSATION analysis
- Publication
Western Journal of Speech Communication: WJSC, 1989, Vol 53, Issue 2, p127
- ISSN
0193-6700
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/10570318909374296