Scott Varney

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Email: s.varney@lboro.ac.uk

Nationality: British

Start Date: Oct 2009

Status: Part-time.

 

Academic Biography:

BSc Hons Social Psychology, (First Class) – Loughborough University (2009)

 

Current Research:

I am currently exploring the ways in which joking operates within Television Situation Comedies (Sitcoms). In particular, my work explores how a joke operates in terms of sequence organization over a number of spoken turns and how it was designed to be not only humorous, but also to perform other functions such as developing certain character types. To explore these issues I am using videos of popular sitcoms, recorded footage of audiences watching/talking about sitcoms and recordings made in production meetings of those responsible for making these comedies. 

Research Interests:

Conversation Analysis, Laughter, Joking and Teasing in Talk, Interactional Transgressions, Character Types in Sitcoms, Discursive Psychology.

Funding Body: Self Funded

Supervisors: Dr. Elizabeth Stokoe

Involvement in Department:

Discourse and Rhetoric Group (DARG).

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