A Multimodal Study of Sarcasm in Interactional Humor

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tabacaru, Sabina
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston De Gruyter Mouton, [2019]
Series:Applications of cognitive linguistics ; 40.
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Online Access:EBSCOhost
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Table of 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.