Phillip Glenn is a Professor at Emerson College, Boston, USA.

Elizabeth Holt is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Huddersfield, UK.

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1 Introduction, Phillip Glenn and Elizabeth Holt

PART 1 VARIETIES OF LAUGHTER
2 Beyond ((laughter)): Some notes on transcription, Alexa Hepburn and Scott Varney
3 Laughter and Turn-taking: Warranting next speakership in multiparty interactions, Keiko Ikeda and Don Bysouth

PART 2 LAUGHS IN TURNS
4 'There's many a true word said in jest': Seriousness and non-seriousness in interaction, Elizabeth Holt
5 Having the last laugh: On post completion laughter particles, Chloe Shaw, Alexa Hepburn, and Jonathan Potter
6 The emergence of laughter during serious talk in bilingual medical consultations, Claudia Anna Ticca

PART 3 LAUGHS IN SEQUENCES
7 Laughter and competence: Children with severe autism using laughter to joke and tease, Tim Auburn and Christianne Pollock
8 Laughter and smiling in a three-party medical encounter: negotiating participants' alignment in delicate moments, Marilena Fatigante and Franca Orletti
9 'Cause the textbook says.': Laughter and student challenges in the ESL classroom, Christine Jacknick
10 Interviewee laughter and disaffiliation in broadcast news interviews, Tanya Romaniuk

PART 4 LAUGHTER AND IDENTITY
11 No laughing matter: laughter and resistance in the construction of identity, Rebecca Clift
12 Constructing identities through laughter, Grit Liebscher and Jennifer Dailey-O'Cain
13 Interviewees volunteered laughter in employment interviews: A case of 'nervous' laughter?, Phillip Glenn
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