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Prosody and humor / edited by Salvatore Attardo, Manuela Maria Wagner and Eduardo Urios-Aparisi.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Benjamins current topics, 1874-0081 ; v. 55
- Benjamins Current Topics ; 55
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Versification.
- Wit and humor.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (198 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2013]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This chapter investigates the role of prosody in conversational humor in the HBO series Sex and the City (SATC) in an exploratory study. Specifically, we examine how pitch and pauses are part of the prosodic bundle that can be used to mark an utterance as humoristic. We find that the use of prosodic resources participates not only in the marking but also the creation of humor. We conclude that pitch variation and pauses can be used as communicative strategies and can have cognitive benefits. They are part of the performance of humor and participate in the characterization of the personage. The authors suggest the existence of a repertoire of prosodic devices associated to humor and to a particular discourse.
- Contents:
- Recognizing sarcasm without language : a cross-linguistic study of English and Cantonese / Henry S. Cheang and Marc D. Pell
- Prosodic and multimodal markers of humor in conversation / Salvatore Attardo, Lucy Pickering, and Amanda Baker
- Prosody in spontaneous humor : evidence for encryption / Thomas Flamson, Gregory A. Bryant, and H. Clark Barrett
- Formulaic jokes in interaction : the prosody of riddle openings / Christy Bird
- Verbal irony in the wild / Gregory A. Bryant
- Rich pitch : the humorous effects of deaccent and L+H pitch accent / Ann Wennerstrom
- Does prosody play a specific role in conversational humor? / Roxane Bertrand and Béatrice Priego-Valverde
- Prosody of humor in Sex and the City / Eduardo Urios-Aparisi and Manuela Wagner.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9789027271181
- 9027271186
- OCLC:
- 862746370
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