Prosody and humor / edited by Salvatore Attardo, Manuela Maria Wagner and Eduardo Urios-Aparisi.

Other author Attardo, Salvatore, 1962-
Other author Wagner, Manuela (Educator)
Other author Urios-Aparisi, Eduardo, 1964-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoAmsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2013]
Description192 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
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SeriesBenjamins current topics, 1874-0081 ; volume 55
Benjamins current topics ; v. 55. ^A771473
Contents Recognizing sarcasm without language : a cross-linguistic study of English and Cantonese / Henry S. Cheang and Marc D. Pell -- Prosodic and multimodal markers of humor in conversation / Salvatore Attardo, Lucy Pickering, and Amanda Baker -- Prosody in spontaneous humor : evidence for encryption / Thomas Flamson, Gregory A. Bryant, and H. Clark Barrett -- Formulaic jokes in interaction : the prosody of riddle openings / Christy Bird -- Verbal irony in the wild / Gregory A. Bryant -- Rich pitch : the humorous effects of deaccent and L+H pitch accent / Ann Wennerstrom -- Does prosody play a specific role in conversational humor? / Roxane Bertrand and Béatrice Priego-Valverde -- Prosody of humor in Sex and the City / Eduardo Urios-Aparisi and Manuela Wagner.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2013031136
ISBN9789027202758 (hb : alk. paper)

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