Prosody and humor
By: edited by Salvatore Attardo, Manuela Maria Wagner and Eduardo Urios-Aparisi
Series: Benjamins current topics -- volume 55; Benjamins current topics -- v. 55.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company; Benjamins Publishing Company, John
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9789027202758; 9789027271181
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Versification; Wit and humor
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Recognizing sarcasm without language : a cross-linguistic study of English and Cantonese / Henry S. Cheang and Marc D. Pell; title: Prosodic and multimodal markers of humor in conversation / Salvatore Attardo, Lucy Pickering, and Amanda Baker; title: Prosody in spontaneous humor : evidence for encryption / Thomas Flamson, Gregory A. Bryant, and H. Clark Barrett; title: Formulaic jokes in interaction : the prosody of riddle openings / Christy Bird; title: Verbal irony in the wild / Gregory A. Bryant; title: Rich pitch : the humorous effects of deaccent and L+H pitch accent / Ann Wennerstrom; title: Does prosody play a specific role in conversational humor? / Roxane Bertrand and Béatrice Priego-Valverde; title: Prosody of humor in Sex and the City / Eduardo Urios-Aparisi and Manuela Wagner.