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August 4, 2025Journal of Language and Pragmatics Studies.

The laughter as a strategic device: Exploring its pragmatic functions in conversations

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EJEdona Jahiu

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Overview

This research explores how laughter enhances communication and reveals gendered patterns in interpersonal interactions.

Key Points

  • Laughter serves multiple pragmatic functions in conversations, enriching communication beyond humor.
  • Qualitative and quantitative methods were used to analyze laughter's role in a corpus of 41 spontaneous conversations.
  • Findings indicate laughter helps express relational closeness, mitigate conflict, and prompt requests during interaction.
  • Gender-based differences were observed in how participants initiated and responded to laughter, indicating distinct communication styles.

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Edona Jahiu (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/689521f09f4f1c896c4288behttps://doi.org/10.58881/jlps.v4i2.123
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