Prosody and Humor

Name: Prosody and Humor
Brand: John Benjamins Publishing Company
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Salvatore Attardo Manuela Maria Wagner Eduardo Urios-Aparisi(Herausgeber*in)

John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Erschienen am 6. Dezember 2013

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Prosody and Humor
Editorial page
Title page
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Table of contents
Prosody and humor
1. Introduction
1.1 A terminological caveat
2. The state of the art
2.1 Humor
2.2 Laughter
2.3 Irony
2.4 Phonological markers
2.5 Facial markers
2.6 Conclusions of the above discussions
3. The chapters in this book
4. Implications for pragmatics
4.1 Prosody as a marker
4.2 What does it mean to say that feature X is a "marker" of Y?
4.3 Prosodic and paralinguistic markers as eliciting affect
4.4 Further research
References
Recognizing sarcasm without language
1. Introduction
2. Acoustic-perceptual correlates of sarcasm in speech
3. On the cross-linguistic recognition of speaker attitudes
4. The present study
5. Method
5.1 Participants
5.2 Materials
5.3 Experimental tasks/procedure
5.4 Statistical procedure
6. Results
6.1 Response patterns
6.2 Cross-linguistic analysis of accuracy data for each attitude
7. Discussion
7.1 Future directions
7.2 Conclusion
References
Prosodic and multimodal markers of humor in conversation
1. Introduction
1.1 The jab line
1.2 Humor support
2. Methodology
2.1 Identifying humorous sequences
2.2 Acoustical analysis
2.3 A note on the coding of humor and humor support
3. Overall results
3.1 Speech rate
3.2 Pauses
3.3 Pitch
3.4 Volume
3.5 The canned jokes' performance
4. Comparison of the results for the dyadic exchange vs. the canned performance data
4.1 Pitch
4.2 Volume
4.3 Speech rate
5. Comparison of conversational humor vs. canned humor
5.1 Speech rate
5.2 Volume
5.3 Pitch
5.4 Pauses
6. Non-prosodic markers
6.1 Liminal sequences
7. Conclusions
Transcription Chart
References
Prosody in spontaneous humor
1. Introduction
2. Method
2.1 Recordings
3. Results
4. Discussion
References
Appendix A
Appendix B
Formulaic jokes in interaction
1. Introduction
1.1 The prosody of jokes
1.2 The prosody of wh-questions
1.3 The prosody of riddles
2. Methodology
2.1 Data
2.2 Analyzing pitch variation
2.3 Pitch and gender
3. Analysis of pitch variation
3.1 Pitch range
3.1.1 Explanation for pitch range in riddle questions and conversational wh-questions
3.2 Pitch change within syllable nuclei
3.3 Mean absolute slope within syllable nuclei
3.4 Discussion
4. Conclusion
References
Verbal irony in the wild
1. Introduction
1.1 Verbal irony as implied language
1.2 Verbal irony and the voice
2. Descriptive analyses
3. Conclusion
References
Rich pitch
1. Introduction
2. Intonation, cohesion, and mental representation
3. The jokes
3.1 Jokes with deaccent
3.2 Jokes with contrast
4. Discussion
4.1 Humor and prosody
4.2 Theme and rheme
4.3 Processing cost
4.4 Ad hoc categories
4.5 Salience
4.6 Models of mental representation
5. Conclusion
References
Does prosody play a specific role in conversational humor?
1. Conversational humor
2. Corpus CID
2.1 General presentation
2.2 Device and protocol
2.3 The participants and their conditions of recording
2.4 Conversational characteristics of the data
3. Type of humor in the CID
4. Analysis
4.1 The humorous reported speech
4.2 Summary
4.3 Repetitions and confirmation requests/answers
5. Conclusion
Conventions of transcription
References
Appendix: Translations
Prosody of humor in Sex and the City
1. Introduction
2. Methods
3. Results
3.1 Humor types in SATC
3.2 Pitch variation
3.3 Pauses
4. Narrated scenes: A comparison
5. Discussion and conclusions
References
Index

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