A Multimodal Study of Sarcasm in Interactional Humor

By Sabina Tabacaru

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 311062589X
• ISBN13: 9783110625899
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
• Length: 285 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary