Laughter in Interaction

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Little Words That Matter: Discourse Markers “So” and “Oh” and the Doing of Other-Attentiveness in Social Interaction (2006, background): “…experiences (Lerner, 1992; Mandelbaum, 1987; Ochs & Taylor, 1992; Ochs, Taylor, Rudolph, & Smith, 1992), claiming individualized knowledge of one’s conversational partner (Staske, 2002), and deploying laughter to negotiate the degree of closeness (Glenn, 2003; Jefferson, Sacks, & Schegloff, 1987).”
Crying: Notes on Description, Transcription, and Interaction (2004, background): “I am deeply indebted to Gail Jefferson for producing a painstaking retranscription of an earlier version of one of the crying sequences and making helpful suggestions concerning the representation of crying.”
‘Articulating the unsaid’ via and-prefaced formulations of others’ talk (2010, background): “Leslie first responds by laughing (line 13), but while laughter is an appropriate uptake of something offered as a ‘laughable’ (Glenn, 2003; Jefferson, 1979), it is not a complete response to a report of good news, which is still due from Leslie.”