TY - GEN AU - Hernández López, María de la O PY - 2010 SN - 1578-3820 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10835/1149 AB - This paper aims at examining 80 doctor-patient interactions in England and Spain in order to establish a pragmalinguistic taxonomy of humour as a phatic use of language. On the other hand, such taxonomy will help explain how psychosocial concepts such... LA - es PB - Universidad de Almeria KW - Power KW - Interpersonal communication KW - Humour KW - Afiliation KW - Self-afirmation KW - Phatic communication. KW - Comunicacion interpersonal KW - Humor KW - Afiliacion KW - Auto-afirmacion KW - Comunicacion fatica KW - Lengua de contacto TI - El humor como lengua de contacto ¿estrategia afiliativa o de auto-afirmacion?: estudio comparativo ingles-espanol del discurso institucional T2 - Humour as a language of contact, a strategy of afiliation or of self-afirmation? comparative english-spanish study of institutional discourse DO - http://dx.doi.org/10.25115/odisea.v0i11.334 ER -