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metadiscursive or intertextual contents. The whole style of the conversation, the
type of interaction, the speaker and other pragmatic elements are determining fac-
tors in relation to the prosody of the performance of humor in rehearsed perfor-
mances. The generic conventions of this comedy series would render unnecessary
the use of prosodic markers and the identification of humorous utterances, but it
seems that to a great extent the delivery of humor through its prosodic resources
needs to be considered part of what makes the utterance funny. Future analyses
of more data will provide information on the connection of prosody and multi-
modality and humor in naturalistic and acted conversations. For now, our data
indicates that the idea of a consistent ironic tone of voice represents a stereotype
associated to the performance of humor.
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