22.1569, Books: Applied Linguistics/Discourse Analysis: Poletto

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Date: 06-Apr-2011
From: Ghenadie Braghis [g.braghis at lap-publishing.com]
Subject: Humor in the Language Classroom: Poletto

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Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2011 18:48:13
From: Ghenadie Braghis [g.braghis at lap-publishing.com]
Subject: Humor in the Language Classroom: Poletto

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Title: Humor in the Language Classroom 
Subtitle: A discursive analysis of interactions in the language classroom 
Publication Year: 2010 
Publisher: Lambert Academic Publishing
	   http://www.lap-publishing.com

Author: Giampaolo Poletto

Paperback: ISBN: 3843375372 9783843375375 Pages: 204 Price: Europe EURO 79

Abstract:

The production and understanding of humor are supposed to commonly occur in an 
educational environment. Nevertheless, such a kind of spontaneous, unpredictable, 
situational humor is quite elusive and hard to outline in scientifically spendible terms. In the 
perspective of the present study, instances of humor are part of the interactional practices 
between the teacher and learners in a language classroom. Observations and conclusions are 
empirically grounded on the analysis of authentic samples collected in my four-year activity 
with different groups of Hungarian foreign learners of Italian. Humor is viewed as a tool which 
offers a privileged viewpoint on a multiplicity of aspects, namely discursive, psychological 
and didactic. The goal is to instantiate and achieve an attemptive description of the 
emergence of verbal humor in the routine teaching practice. My research aims to make a first 
affirmative step - and to some extent pave the way - towards more thorough and systematic 
interdisciplinary insights on humor in the language classroom, as an area of research 
identifiable for its specific traits and the multi-oriented function and role of humor. 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Discourse Analysis

Written In: English  (eng)

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