Gender and humor: The state of the art
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Helga Kotthoff is Professor in the German Department at Freiburg University of Education in Germany. She has worked in the fields of Applied, German and Anthropological Linguistics – basically on questions of interaction analysis, gender studies, humor, sociolinguistics, and ethnography of communication. Her current research and teaching include interactional sociolinguistics, linguistics of German, conversational humor and irony, gender and communication and intercultural communication
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Forms of Talk
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Child Development
Der kleine Unterschied im Lachverhalten von Frauen und Männern und seine großen Folgen
Beyond Laughter
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Discourse Studies
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Humor
Ways of speaking
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Helga Kotthoff is Professor in the German Department at Freiburg University of Education in Germany. She has worked in the fields of Applied, German and Anthropological Linguistics – basically on questions of interaction analysis, gender studies, humor, sociolinguistics, and ethnography of communication. Her current research and teaching include interactional sociolinguistics, linguistics of German, conversational humor and irony, gender and communication and intercultural communication conflicts. She has published on all these subjects.