What is it about?
How people who can't see or hear (well) still tell jokes and show other people that they have understood a joke.
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Why is it important?
When you're deafblind you miss out on a lot of contextual information - how do deafblind signers adapt to this and continue to use humour and what difficulties do they face? This article is also important because we don't know much yet about how laughter and humour are used in sign language conversations more generally and what is similar/ different to laughter and humour in spoken language conversations. So it contributes to our understanding of humour and laughter across language modalities.
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This page is a summary of: Are you trying to be funny? Communicating humour in deafblind conversations, Discourse Studies, May 2019, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1461445619846704.
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