[Air-l] Laughter in CMC.

joshua raclaw Joshua.Raclaw at colorado.edu
Sun Apr 16 13:45:46 PDT 2006


Hi all,

Does anyone know of any sources that specifically examine the use of laughter in
online communications (both 'lexically', as in 'lol' or 'haha', and through
textual play, such as '::laughs::')?  I'm looking for significant discussions
of the use and interpretation of laughter, rather than just short descriptions
devoted to this phenomenon within a larger piece of work.

Thanks,

Joshua



Joshua Raclaw - PhD student
Department of Linguistics
University of Colorado at Boulder
http://ucsu.colorado.edu/~raclaw/






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