Understanding Conversational Joking

2020-06-11 Language Arts & Disciplines

Author : Nadine Thielemann
Release : 2020-06-11
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Download or read book Understanding Conversational Joking written by Nadine Thielemann. This book was released on 2020-06-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the diverse forms of conversational humor with the help of examples drawn from casual interactions among Russian speakers. It argues that neither an exclusively discourse-analytic perspective on the phenomenon nor an exclusively cognitive one can adequately account for conversational joking. Instead, the work advocates reconciling these two perspectives in order to describe such humor as a form of cognitive and communicative creativity, by means of which interlocutors convey additional meanings and imply further interpretive frames. Accordingly, in order to analyze cognition in interaction, it introduces a discourse-semantic framework which complements mental spaces and blending theory with ideas from discourse analysis. On the one hand, this enables both the emergent and interactive character and the surface features of conversational joking to be addressed. On the other, it incorporates into the analysis those normally backgrounded cognitive processes responsible for the additional meanings emerging from, and communicated by jocular utterances.

Conversational Joking

1993 Language Arts & Disciplines

Author : Neal R. Norrick
Release : 1993
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Download or read book Conversational Joking written by Neal R. Norrick. This book was released on 1993. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conversational Joking builds on recent developments in discourse analysis and linguistic pragmatics, and on current work in the study of humor, narrative, and social interaction. It provides a coherent perspective on conversational joking and makes a major contribution to our understanding of humor, conversation, and face-to-face interaction.

The Multimodal Performance of Conversational Humor

2022-04-15 Language Arts & Disciplines

Author : Elisa Gironzetti
Release : 2022-04-15
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Synopsis The Multimodal Performance of Conversational Humor by : Elisa Gironzetti

Download or read book The Multimodal Performance of Conversational Humor written by Elisa Gironzetti. This book was released on 2022-04-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, and gaze, and shows how, by focusing on these elements, it is possible to shed light on the “unsaid” of conversations. In the book, the humorous framing of an utterance is shown to be negotiated and co-constructed dialogically and multimodally, through changes and patterns of smiling synchronicity, smiling intensity, and eye movements. The study also analyzes the multimodal features of failed humor and proposes a new categorization from a dialogic perspective. Because of its interdisciplinary approach, which includes facial expression analysis and eye tracking, this book is relevant to humor researchers as well as scholars in social and behavioral sciences interested in multimodality and embodied cognition.

Conversational Narrative

2000-01-01 Language Arts & Disciplines

Author : Neal R. Norrick
Release : 2000-01-01
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Download or read book Conversational Narrative written by Neal R. Norrick. This book was released on 2000-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the forms and functions of storytelling in everyday conversation. It develops a rhetoric of everyday storytelling through an integrated approach to both the internal structure and the contextual integration of narrative passages. It aims at a more complete picture of oral narrative through analysis of a wider range of natural data, including personal anecdotes told for humor, put-down stories told for self-aggrandizement, family stories retold to ratify membership and so on, as well as marginal stories and narrative-like passages to delineate the boundaries of conversational storytelling and to test the analytical techniques proposed.Using transcriptions of stories from everyday talk, Norrick explores disfluencies, formulaicity and repetition as teller strategies and listener cues alongside global phenomena such as retelling and narrative macrostructures. He also extends his analysis to narrative jokes from conversation and to narrative passages in drama, namely Shakespeare's "Romeo & Juliet" and Beckett's "Endgame."

Conversational Joking

1993 Language Arts & Disciplines

Author : Neal R. Norrick
Release : 1993
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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