Repetition is often associated with traditional teaching drills. Yet, it has been documented how repetitions are exploited by learners themselves (Duff, 2000). In a study of immersion classroom conversations, it was found that playful recyclings were recurrent features of young learners’ second language repertoires. Such joking events were identified on the basis of the participants’ displayed ...

Sir, Compulsive rituals or acts are stereotyped behaviors that are neither enjoyable nor do they result in the completion of inherently useful tasks (World Health Organization, 1992). Herein we report a patient who presented to us with a rare compulsion of cutting jokes, a phenomenon which is unknown in the literature. A 32 year old male, well adjusted premorbidly, having no contributing past a...

This article examines a Korean American comedian’s use of Mock Asian and the ideologies that legitimate this racializing style. These legitimacy depend on assumptions about relationship between communities, authentication speaker’s community membership, nature interpretive frame has been “keyed”. Specifically, her depends and, to some extent, reproduces particular ideological links race, nation...