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• Prosody and Humor
• Editorial page
• Title page
• LCC data
• Table of contents
• Prosody and humor
  • 1. Introduction
    • 1.1 A terminological caveat
  • 2. The state of the art
    • 2.1 Humor
    • 2.2 Laughter
    • 2.3 Irony
    • 2.4 Phonological markers
    • 2.5 Facial markers
    • 2.6 Conclusions of the above discussions
  • 3. The chapters in this book
  • 4. Implications for pragmatics
    • 4.1 Prosody as a marker
    • 4.2 What does it mean to say that feature X is a “marker” of Y?
    • 4.3 Prosodic and paralinguistic markers as eliciting affect
    • 4.4 Further research
  • References
• Recognizing sarcasm without language
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Acoustic-perceptual correlates of sarcasm in speech
  • 3. On the cross-linguistic recognition of speaker attitudes
  • 4. The present study
  • 5. Method
    • 5.1 Participants
    • 5.2 Materials
    • 5.3 Experimental tasks/procedure
    • 5.4 Statistical procedure
  • 6. Results
    • 6.1 Response patterns
    • 6.2 Cross-linguistic analysis of accuracy data for each attitude
  • 7. Discussion
    • 7.1 Future directions
    • 7.2 Conclusion
  • References
• Prosodic and multimodal markers of humor in conversation
  • 1. Introduction
    • 1.1 The jab line
    • 1.2 Humor support
  • 2. Methodology
    • 2.1 Identifying humorous sequences
    • 2.2 Acoustical analysis
    • 2.3 A note on the coding of humor and humor support
  • 3. Overall results
    • 3.1 Speech rate
    • 3.2 Pauses
    • 3.3 Pitch
    • 3.4 Volume
    • 3.5 The canned jokes’ performance
  • 4. Comparison of the results for the dyadic exchange vs. the canned performance data
    • 4.1 Pitch
    • 4.2 Volume
    • 4.3 Speech rate
  • 5. Comparison of conversational humor vs. canned humor
    • 5.1 Speech rate
    • 5.2 Volume
    • 5.3 Pitch
    • 5.4 Pauses
  • 6. Non-prosodic markers
    • 6.1 Liminal sequences
  • 7. Conclusions
  • Transcription Chart
  • References
• Prosody in spontaneous humor
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Method
    • 2.1 Recordings
  • 3. Results
  • 4. Discussion
  • References
  • Appendix A
  • Appendix B
• Formulaic jokes in interaction
  • 1. Introduction
    • 1.1 The prosody of jokes
    • 1.2 The prosody of wh-questions
    • 1.3 The prosody of riddles
  • 2. Methodology
    • 2.1 Data
    • 2.2 Analyzing pitch variation
    • 2.3 Pitch and gender
  • 3. Analysis of pitch variation
    • 3.1 Pitch range
      • 3.1.1 Explanation for pitch range in riddle questions and conversational wh‑questions
    • 3.2 Pitch change within syllable nuclei
    • 3.3 Mean absolute slope within syllable nuclei
    • 3.4 Discussion
  • 4. Conclusion
  • References
• Verbal irony in the wild
  • 1. Introduction
    • 1.1 Verbal irony as implied language
    • 1.2 Verbal irony and the voice
  • 2. Descriptive analyses
  • 3. Conclusion
  • References
• Rich pitch
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Intonation, cohesion, and mental representation
  • 3. The jokes
    • 3.1 Jokes with deaccent
    • 3.2 Jokes with contrast
  • 4. Discussion
    • 4.1 Humor and prosody
    • 4.2 Theme and rheme
    • 4.3 Processing cost
    • 4.4 Ad hoc categories
    • 4.5 Salience
    • 4.6 Models of mental representation
  • 5. Conclusion
  • References
• Does prosody play a specific role in conversational humor?
  • 1. Conversational humor
  • 2. Corpus CID
    • 2.1 General presentation
    • 2.2 Device and protocol
    • 2.3 The participants and their conditions of recording
    • 2.4 Conversational characteristics of the data
  • 3. Type of humor in the CID
  • 4. Analysis
    • 4.1 The humorous reported speech
    • 4.2 Summary
    • 4.3 Repetitions and confirmation requests/answers
  • 5. Conclusion
  • Conventions of transcription
  • References
  • Appendix: Translations
• Prosody of humor in Sex and the City
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Methods
  • 3. Results
    • 3.1 Humor types in SATC
    • 3.2 Pitch variation
    • 3.3 Pauses
  • 4. Narrated scenes: A comparison
  • 5. Discussion and conclusions
  • References
• Index