Prosody and Humor
Table 1. Speech Rate (rounded to two decimals) Speaker
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| Table 1. Speech Rate (rounded to two decimals)
Speaker Humor Serious Total Carmen Average of Speech Rate 0.19 0.31 0.25 Average Number of Syllables 7.83 5.02 6.425 Average Turn Duration (in seconds) 1.47 1.06 1.265 Marina Average of Speech Rate 0.27 0.23 0.25 Average Number of Syllables 4.14 4.56 4.35 Average Turn Duration (in seconds) 1.09 0.86 0.975 Total Average of Speech rate 0.23 0.27 0.27 Total Average Number of Syllables 5.84 4.80 4.88 Total Average Turn Duration (in seconds) 1.27 0.97 0.99 44 Salvatore Attardo, Lucy Pickering, and Amanda Baker laughs, expressing once more support and after a pause produces another jab line “Damn Americans!” which is once more ironical. Carmen provides non-humor- ous support, on line 296. So, in this exchange, Carmen supports Marina’s humor non-humorously, by providing asseverative particles. Marina, conversely, supports Carmen’s humorous turn in 287 by laughing in 289 and in 292, and by producing two ironical turns (290; 294). So, in conclusion, it is important to analyze carefully humor support, since not all humor support is humorous. 3. Overall results We found thirteen instances of humor in the conversation. 8 Two were the punch lines of the canned jokes the speakers were asked to perform. The remaining elev- en instances of humor break down as follows: five jab lines (conversational witti- cisms), three cases of irony, and three cases of irony support. 3.1 Speech rate A comparison of the speakers’ speech rate (turn duration divided by number of syllables in the pause-based unit) shows that humor is not marked by a different speech rate: even a superficial observation of Table 1 shows that whereas Carmen has a slower rate in humor, Marina has a faster one. Statistically these differences are not significant (Paired T test, p = 0.7). We checked whether there was a difference once we separated irony, narrative punch lines, and jab lines, contrasted with serious speech rate (Table 2), but once more the results were not significant (Repeated Measures Analysis of Variance, p = 0.37). 8. Given the relatively small sample and the fact that the data come from the same conversation, no claim is made that the results can be generalized or are statistically valid. Statistical calcula- tions are given merely as preliminary analyses of a case study. tải về 1.21 Mb. Chia sẻ với bạn bè của bạn:
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