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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790784403321

Titolo

Prosody and humor / / edited by Salvatore Attardo, Manuela Maria Wagner and Eduardo Urios-Aparisi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

90-272-7118-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (198 pages)

Collana

Benjamins current topics, , 1874-0081 ; ; v. 55

Altri autori (Persone)

AttardoSalvatore <1962->

Urios-AparisiEduardo <1964->

WagnerManuela

Disciplina

808.7

Soggetti

Versification

Wit and humor

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.