The multimodal performance of conversational humor

The multimodal performance of conversational humor

"This volume is the first monograph exploring the functions of visual cues in humor, advocating for the development of a non-linguocentric theory of humor performance. It analyzes a corpus of dyadic, face-to-face interactions in Spanish and English to study the relationship between humor, smili...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gironzetti, Elisa
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2022]
Series:Figurative thought and language ; v. 13.
Subjects:
Humor.
Dialogue analysis.
Conversation analysis.
Modality (Linguistics)
Analyse du dialogue.
Analyse de la conversation.
Modalité (Linguistique)
EBSCO eBooks
Electronic books.
Online Access:EBSCOhost
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • The Multimodal Performance of Conversational Humor
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Dedication page
  • Table of contents
  • List of figures
  • List of tables
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1. Approaching the multimodal study of conversational humor
  • 1.1 Why a multimodal study of conversational humor?
  • 1.2 The field of humor studies
  • 1.2.1 The linguistics of humor
  • 1.2.2 Cognitive linguistics and humor
  • 1.3 The study of conversational humor
  • 1.3.2 Defining and identifying conversational humor
  • 1.4 The study of humor markers
  • 1.4.1 Terminological issues in the study of humor markers
  • 1.4.2 Prosodic cues of humor
  • 1.4.2.1 Empirical and experimental studies of prosodic humor cues
  • 1.4.3 Laughter as a humor cue
  • 1.4.4 Irony cues
  • 1.5 Scope and organization of the volume
  • Chapter 2. Performing conversational humor multimodally
  • an overview
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 Researching the multimodal performance of conversational humor
  • 2.2.1 Data collection setting and instruments
  • 2.2.2 Participants
  • 2.2.3 Data collection procedure
  • 2.2.4 Treatment of data
  • 2.3 Individual smiling behavior
  • 2.4 Joint negotiation and co-construction of the humorous frame
  • 2.5 Smiling dialogic synergy
  • 2.6 Gaze
  • 2.6.1 Gaze aversion and conversational humor
  • 2.6.2 Gaze to the mouth and conversational irony
  • 2.7 Failed humor
  • 2.8 Conclusions
  • Chapter 3. Individual smiling behavior
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 Smiling as a social emotional expression
  • 3.2.1 Smiling within the Basic Emotion Theory (BET)
  • 3.2.2 Smiling within the Behavioral Ecology View (BEV)
  • 3.2.3 Smiling within the Theory of Affective Pragmatics (TAP)
  • 3.3 The study of smiling intensity
  • 3.3.1 Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
  • 3.3.2 Smiling intensity scales
  • 3.3.2.1 Additive FACS-based scoring systems and applications
  • 3.3.2.2 Holistic FACS-based scoring system
  • 3.4 Smiling and humor
  • 3.4.1 Duchenne display and phony smiles
  • 3.4.2 Smiling voice
  • 3.5 Individual smiling behavior and conversational humor
  • 3.5.1 Smiling intensity during humorous and non-humorous discourse
  • 3.5.2 Smiling intensity in English and Spanish
  • 3.5.3 Smiling intensity by males and females
  • 3.5.4 Smiling intensity across types of humor
  • 3.5.5 Smiling intensity across conversational roles
  • 3.6 Conclusions
  • Chapter 4. Smiling patterns and dialogical smiling synergy
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Social cognitive theories of interactional behavior
  • 4.2.1 Behavioral alignment, synchron(icit)y, and coupling
  • 4.2.2 From alignment to synergy
  • 4.2.3 Embodied cognition and facial displays
  • 4.3 Analyzing smiling patterns and synchronicity during humorous discourse
  • 4.4 Smiling patterns during humorous discourse
  • 4.4.1 Framing smiling pattern
  • 4.4.2 Accommodation gesture
  • 4.4.3 Deadpan deliveries of humor

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