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This paper analyses the phenomenon of jocular mockery by contrasting its use in two Facebook communities of practice: one in Spanish and one in English.
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The phenomenon of jocular mockery has been under-researched with research mostly focusing on face-to-face interaction. This paper tries to redress this imbalance by analysing Facebook exchanges in English and Spanish.
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This page is a summary of: Jocular mockery in computer-mediated communication: A contrastive study of a Spanish and English Facebook community, Journal of Politeness Research, January 2015, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/pr-2015-0012.
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