Laughter enables interview to go smoothly,and is considered as a symbol of successful communication in life story interview.Basing on Gail Jefferson's method of transcription,this paper transcribed ten cases of la...Laughter enables interview to go smoothly,and is considered as a symbol of successful communication in life story interview.Basing on Gail Jefferson's method of transcription,this paper transcribed ten cases of laughter from one BBC interview with John Maeda and aims to analyze the roles of laughter.Through close observation,this paper concludes three findings.First,in life story interview,topics on family members will induce greater possibility of laughter;second,in most cases,the interviewer will laugh following the interviewee's laughter;third,laughter is not only taken as the acknowledgement token,but also taken as the evasion strategy.展开更多
Byron's works are often considered as being cynical and tragic due to their famous Byronic heroes—often defiant, melan-choly young men as well as Byron's rebellious life experience. However, Don Juan has alre...Byron's works are often considered as being cynical and tragic due to their famous Byronic heroes—often defiant, melan-choly young men as well as Byron's rebellious life experience. However, Don Juan has already grown out of such tragic mood andself-pitying pride. In Don Juan, contrary to the serious and complete negation, the satire is ambivalent just like the medieval carni-val laughter which is deriding and downgrading as well as positive and regenerating. With the help of the Bakhtin's theory aboutthe medieval carnival, Don Juan proved to be an affirmative poem with positive sense. Byron in this poem gives a true revelation ofpassionate mutual love, shows the importance of personal and national liberty, and expands people's perception of morality as hesatires and laughs at the vices of the society.展开更多
文摘Laughter enables interview to go smoothly,and is considered as a symbol of successful communication in life story interview.Basing on Gail Jefferson's method of transcription,this paper transcribed ten cases of laughter from one BBC interview with John Maeda and aims to analyze the roles of laughter.Through close observation,this paper concludes three findings.First,in life story interview,topics on family members will induce greater possibility of laughter;second,in most cases,the interviewer will laugh following the interviewee's laughter;third,laughter is not only taken as the acknowledgement token,but also taken as the evasion strategy.
文摘Byron's works are often considered as being cynical and tragic due to their famous Byronic heroes—often defiant, melan-choly young men as well as Byron's rebellious life experience. However, Don Juan has already grown out of such tragic mood andself-pitying pride. In Don Juan, contrary to the serious and complete negation, the satire is ambivalent just like the medieval carni-val laughter which is deriding and downgrading as well as positive and regenerating. With the help of the Bakhtin's theory aboutthe medieval carnival, Don Juan proved to be an affirmative poem with positive sense. Byron in this poem gives a true revelation ofpassionate mutual love, shows the importance of personal and national liberty, and expands people's perception of morality as hesatires and laughs at the vices of the society.
