Studying humour from a Conversation Analytic perspective

Çopur N., Atar C.

STUDIES IN LINGUISTICS, CULTURE, AND FLT, cilt.10, sa.3, ss.82-93, 2022 (Scopus) identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 10 Sayı: 3
  • Basım Tarihi: 2022
  • Doi Numarası: 10.46687/lgns4656
  • Dergi Adı: STUDIES IN LINGUISTICS, CULTURE, AND FLT
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Scopus, Central & Eastern European Academic Source (CEEAS), MLA - Modern Language Association Database, Directory of Open Access Journals
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.82-93
  • Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Humour is a complex and dynamic phenomenon prevalent in social interaction in

various settings, such as mundane talk and institutional contexts. It has been a focus of interest in

social interaction research for decades. To date, scholars have sought to gain insights regarding

what counts as humorous and why we find certain utterances funny (e.g., Carroll, 2014; Bell &

Pomerantz, 2016). As such, scholars from various fields ranging from philosophy, sociology,

psychology, pragmatics, and linguistics, to name a few, have adopted different approaches in the

examination of humour. One of the new perspectives that offers unique insights into humour

scholarship is Conversation Analysis (CA) methodology. CA is a method and a research field in

itself deriving from ethnomethodology, and it provides valuable opportunities for researchers to

investigate humour in interaction. Thus, the main aim of this study is to present Conversation

Analysis as a candidate methodology to be used for analysing humour in interaction. It also

provides a critical discussion of how CA approaches ‘humour’.

Keywords: Conversation Analysis, Ethnomethodology, humour, humour theories, social

interaction