16 Apr
2006
16 Apr
'06
3:45 p.m.
Hi all, Does anyone know of any sources that specifically examine the use of laughter in online communications (both 'lexically', as in 'lol' or 'haha', and through textual play, such as '::laughs::')? I'm looking for significant discussions of the use and interpretation of laughter, rather than just short descriptions devoted to this phenomenon within a larger piece of work. Thanks, Joshua Joshua Raclaw - PhD student Department of Linguistics University of Colorado at Boulder http://ucsu.colorado.edu/~raclaw/