
Prosody and Humor
John Benjamins Publishing Co
Published on 6. December 2013
Book
Hardback
192 pages
978-90-272-0275-8 (ISBN)
Description
This is the first-ever book-length collection of articles on the subject of prosody and humor. The chapters are written by the recognized leaders in the field and present the cutting edge of the research in this new interdisciplinary field of study. The book covers a broad range of languages, using several theoretical approaches, ranging from cognitive semantic theories, to discourse analysis, and anthropology. All the contributions are anchored in instrumental empirical data analysis. The topics covered range from humor in conversation, to sitcom scripts, from riddles to intonation jokes, from irony in a laboratory setting to irony occurring in conversation, from friends' conversations in France, to business meetings in rural Brazil. The unifying theme is the search for markers of the humorous or ironical intentions of the speakers or of the genre of interaction. Originally published in Pragmatics & Cognition 19:2 (2011) and 19:3 (2011).
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
+ index
Weight
515 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-0275-8 (9789027202758)
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Salvatore Attardo | Manuela Maria Wagner | Eduardo Urios-Aparisi
Prosody and Humor
E-Book
12/2013
1st Edition
John Benjamins Publishing Company
€105.99
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Persons
Editor
Texas A&M University-Commerce
University of Connecticut
University of Connecticut
Content
1. Introduction; 2. Prosody and humor (by Attardo, Salvatore); 3. Articles; 4. Recognizing sarcasm without language: A cross-linguistic study of English and Cantonese (by Cheang, Henry S.); 5. Prosodic and multimodal markers of humor in conversation (by Attardo, Salvatore); 6. Prosody in spontaneous humor: Evidence for encryption (by Flamson, Thomas); 7. Formulaic jokes in interaction: The prosody of riddle openings (by Bird, Christy); 8. Verbal irony in the wild (by Bryant, Gregory A.); 9. Rich pitch: The humorous effects of deaccent and L+H* pitch accent (by Wennerstrom, Ann); 10. Does prosody play a specific role in conversational humor? (by Bertrand, Roxane); 11. Prosody of humor in Sex and the City (by Urios-Aparisi, Eduardo); 12. Index