Gregory A. Bryant
List of John Benjamins publications in which Gregory A. Bryant is involved.
2013 Verbal irony in the wild Prosody and Humor, Attardo, Salvatore, Manuela Maria Wagner and Eduardo Urios-Aparisi (eds.), pp. 103–120 | Article
Verbal irony constitutes a rough class of indirect intentional communication involving a complex interaction of language-specific and communication-general phenomena. Conversationalists use verbal irony in conjunction with paralinguistic signals such as speech prosody. Researchers examining… read more
2013 Signals of humor: Encryption and laughter in social interaction Developments in Linguistic Humour Theory, Dynel, Marta (ed.), pp. 49–74 | Article
Laughter and humor often co-occur in social interaction, but their functional relationship is widely debated, and not well understood. The encryption theory of humor (Flamson and Barrett 2008) proposes that intentionally produced humor honestly signals the fact that speaker and audience share… read more
2013 Prosody in spontaneous humor: Evidence for encryption Prosody and Humor, Attardo, Salvatore, Manuela Maria Wagner and Eduardo Urios-Aparisi (eds.), pp. 61–80 | Article
The study of conversational humor has received relatively little empirical attention with almost no examinations of the role of vocal signals in spontaneous humor production. Here we report an analysis of spontaneous humorous speech in a rural Brazilian collective farm. The sample was collected… read more
2011 Verbal irony in the wild Prosody and Humor, Attardo, Salvatore, Manuela Maria Wagner and Eduardo Urios-Aparisi (eds.), pp. 291–309 | Article
Verbal irony constitutes a rough class of indirect intentional communication involving a complex interaction of language-specific and communication-general phenomena. Conversationalists use verbal irony in conjunction with paralinguistic signals such as speech prosody. Researchers examining… read more
2011 Prosody in spontaneous humor: Evidence for encryption Prosody and Humor, Attardo, Salvatore, Manuela Maria Wagner and Eduardo Urios-Aparisi (eds.), pp. 248–267 | Article
The study of conversational humor has received relatively little empirical attention with almost no examinations of the role of vocal signals in spontaneous humor production. Here we report an analysis of spontaneous humorous speech in a rural Brazilian collective farm. The sample was collected… read more