Prosody and Humor

Editors

Salvatore Attardo | Texas A&M University- Commerce

Manuela Maria Wagner | University of Connecticut

Eduardo Urios-Aparisi | University of Connecticut

[Pragmatics & Cognition, 19:2] 2011. vi, 194 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 10 August 2011

Table of Contents

Introduction
Prosody and humor Salvatore Attardo, Manuela Maria Wagner and Eduardo Urios-Aparisi	189–201
Articles
Recognizing sarcasm without language: A cross-linguistic study of English and Cantonese Henry S. Cheang and Marc D. Pell	203–223
Prosodic and multimodal markers of humor in conversation Salvatore Attardo, Lucy Pickering and Amanda Baker	224–247
Prosody in spontaneous humor: Evidence for encryption Thomas Flamson, Gregory A. Bryant and H. Clark Barrett	248–267
Formulaic jokes in interaction: The prosody of riddle openings Christy Bird	268–290
Verbal irony in the wild Gregory A. Bryant	291–309
Rich pitch: The humorous effects of deaccent and L+H* pitch accent Ann Wennerstrom	310–332
Does prosody play a specific role in conversational humor? Roxane Bertrand and Béatrice Priego-Valverde	333–356
Book reviews
Review of Raskin (2008): The Primer of Humor Research Reviewed by Wallace Chafe	357–365
Review of Norrick & Chiaro (2009): Humor in Interaction Reviewed by Phillip Glenn	366–374
Review of Chafe (2007): The Importance of not Being Earnest. The Feeling Behind Laughter and Humor Reviewed by Salvatore Attardo	375–382

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