Sarah Seewoester Cain
List of John Benjamins publications in which Sarah Seewoester Cain is involved.
Articles
2018 Chapter 6. Teasing as audience engagement: Setting up the unexpected during television comedy monologues The Dynamics of Interactional Humor: Creating and negotiating humor in everyday encounters, Tsakona, Villy and Jan Chovanec (eds.), pp. 127–152 | Chapter
This paper explores teasing – a type of humorous play associated with intimate, everyday conversation – during televised comedy monologue performances. Thirteen teasing instances, which occurred during joke setup sequences and targeted studio audiences, were transcribed/analyzed alongside videos… read more
2013 Giving voice to the studio audience: Ratified and dynamic participation statuses in a television stand-up performance Developments in Linguistic Humour Theory, Dynel, Marta (ed.), pp. 145–178 | Article
The current paper explores this vital role of studio audience during the introductory stand-up performance of Conan O’Brien, host of the late night US talk show CONAN. Unlike live stand-up audiences, studio audiences occupy a unique space, especially in terms of the participation framework. Their… read more
2011 The role of syllables and morphemes as mechanisms in humorous pun formation The Pragmatics of Humour across Discourse Domains, Dynel, Marta (ed.), pp. 71–104 | Article
Central to the pragmatic study of puns are their underlying linguistic mechanisms which enable the ambiguity of meaning. This study explores the role of syllabic and morphological mechanisms in humorous pun formation. While traditional approaches to humorous ambiguity formation focus on the sound,… read more