Sacks An Analysis of the course of a Jokes Telling in Conversation

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Sacks - An Analysis of the course of a Jokes
Telling in Conversation

• Process issues(?)
• Motivation for telling
• Self-congratulation (p. 344)
• System designed to minimize gaps
• Understanding tests (top of p. 346)
• Recipient - test of supposed sophistication
• Teller - questioning of tellers understanding
  possibly create dissapproving of teller
• Orientation
• Search / orientation to obscenity 2.3 (p. 346)
• Preface (p. 340) (two utterance minimum)
• 1.1 Offer
• Components
• Offer or request to tell
• Initial characterization
• Reference to time /person/place/manner of
  receiving joke
• reference to person received from important if
  they are known to audience
• (allows speaker to let audience know they are
  orienting to possibility the audience has
  previously heard joke)
• Requirements
• Joke is not known to audience