A Study on Delivery of and Responses to Failed Humor of Thai Interlocutors
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This research investigates failed humor of Thai people with two purposes: to study the linguistic patterns and the types of responses of Thai's failed humor. The data used for the analysis were from 100 YouTube clips and 30 samples of the interviews about performing and responding to failed humor. The results show 5 linguistic patterns used in failed humor: using words to confuse the listeners, using of homographs and homophones, punning, word misuse, and using dialect. Additionally, the results on responses to failed humor are categorized into 10 types: rhetorical question, commenting on humor, topic change, humorous repair, humorous repetition, irony, gesture, silence, smiling or (fake) laughter, and others.
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