Review: Shively, Rachel (2018). Learning and using conversational humor in a second language during study abroad. Berlin, Germany: de Gruyter.

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https://doi.org/10.21283/2376905X.10.194

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CONVERSATIONAL HUMOR, STUDY ABROAD, SPANISH L2, HUMOROUS STRATEGIES

Abstract

This book review focuses on the monographic volume, Learning and using conversational humor in a second language during study abroad, written by Rachel Shively (Illinois State University) and published in 2018 by de Gruyter.  The book offers a thorough ethnographic study of L2 Spanish students' use and appropriation of conversational humor and humorous strategies during a semester abroad in Toledo, Spain.  Shively also discusses the pedagogical implications of her study and provides practical examples of how humor can be introduced in the L2 classroom. 

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Susana de los Heros, University of Rhode Island

Susana de los Heros is Professor of Spanish at the University of Rhode Island and holds a PhD in Hispanic Linguistics from the University of Pittsburgh. She is originally from Peru where she obtained her BA from the Universidad Católica. Her main areas of interest are Spanish sociolinguistics and pragmatics, more specifically, language ideologies, gender differences in speech, politeness theory, and humor in an L2 and in the media. Her publications include the books, Lengua y género en el castellano peruano (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2001), Utopía y realidad (Vervuert/Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 2012), and Fundamentos y modelos del estudio pragmático y socio-pragmático del español (GUP 2012, co-edited with Mercedes Niño-Murcia). Her more recent article is “Teaching with and about Humor in the L2 Spanish Classroom” (2018). Currently she is exploring the construction of bilingual identities in the US media and the use of humor in the medical sphere in Spanish.

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2019-08-31

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de los Heros, S. (2019). Review: Shively, Rachel (2018). Learning and using conversational humor in a second language during study abroad. Berlin, Germany: de Gruyter. EuroAmerican Journal of Applied Linguistics and Languages, 6(1), 74–77. https://doi.org/10.21283/2376905X.10.194

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Vol. 6 No. 1 (2019)

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Book and Technology Reviews

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