Prosody and humor /

Prosody and humor / edited by Salvatore Attardo, Manuela Maria Wagner and Eduardo Urios-Aparisi. - 1 online resource (198 pages) - Benjamins current topics, v. 55 1874-0081 ; .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 Beatrice Priego-Valverde -- Prosody of humor in Sex and the City / Eduardo Urios-Aparisi and Manuela Wagner.

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Versification.
Wit and humor.


Electronic books.

P311 / .P765 2013

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