A Multimodal Study Of Sarcasm In Interactional Humor (Applications Of Cognitive Linguistics [Acl], 40)

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 to present the elements that help to create the humorous effects: common ground, intersubjectivity, facial expressions, speakers' attitude, etc. The large corpus of examples annotated in ELAN offers a much-needed multimodal perspective of humor, which encompasses all the different techniques used by speakers. The present analysis offers inspiring insight for future research, in different fields of study: multimodality, humor, and psycholinguistics. The study reveals the need of analyzing both verbal and non-verbal elements in discourse in general and humor in particular as co-speech gestures are essential for the understanding of the message as intended by the speakers.

• | Author: Sabina Tabacaru
• | Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• | Publication Date: Nov 01, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 285 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 311062589X
• | ISBN-13: 9783110625899