A Multimodal Study of Sarcasm in Interactional Humor / Sabina Tabacaru.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tabacaru, Sabina, Author.

Series:

Applications of cognitive linguistics ; Volume 40.

Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL] ; 40

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wit and humor.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 273 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The corpus-based approach to humor offers innovative and more than plausible objectives, supported by sound arguments, which underline the need to analyze humor both verbally and non-verbally. The cognitive linguistic account of humor sets to analyze a corpus of humorous meanings in interaction and to present the elements that help to create the humorous effects: common ground, intersubjectivity, facial expressions, speakers' attitude, etc. The large corpus of examples annotated in ELAN offers a much-needed multimodal perspective of humor, which encompasses all the different techniques used by speakers. The present analysis offers inspiring insight for future research, in different fields of study: multimodality, humor, and psycholinguistics. The study reveals the need of analyzing both verbal and non-verbal elements in discourse in general and humor in particular as co-speech gestures are essential for the understanding of the message as intended by the speakers.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Foreword

Contents

1. Introduction

2. Theoretical premises

3. Corpus, coding tools, and quantitative overview

4. Sarcasm: Meaning and incongruity

5. Multimodality and sarcasm: Reasons to raise a few eyebrows

6. Conclusions and prospects

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

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ISBN:

9783110625981

3110625989

9783110629446

3110629445

OCLC:

1125186277