Elisa Gironzetti

List of John Benjamins publications in which Elisa Gironzetti is involved.

Title

The Multimodal Performance of Conversational Humor

Elisa Gironzetti

This volume is the first monograph exploring the functions of visual cues in humor, advocating for the development of a non-linguocentric theory of humor performance. It analyzes a corpus of dyadic, face-to-face interactions in Spanish and English to study the relationship between humor, smiling,… read more

[Figurative Thought and Language, 13] 2022. xix, 235 pp.

Article

Gironzetti, Elisa, Salvatore Attardo and Lucy Pickering 2016 Smiling, gaze, and humor in conversation: A pilot study Metapragmatics of Humor: Current research trends, Ruiz-Gurillo, Leonor (ed.), pp. 235–254 | Article

This paper presents a pilot study, which is part of a larger research project intended to shed light on the role of smiling as a marker of humor in naturalistic conversation. Building on previous research (Attardo, Pickering, and Baker 2011; Calvo, Fernández-Martín, and Nummenmaa 2013; Calvo,… read more