Chapter 1
Approaching the multimodal study of conversational humor
Article outline
- 1.1Why a multimodal study of conversational humor?
- 1.2The field of humor studies
- 1.2.1The linguistics of humor
- 1.2.2Cognitive linguistics and humor
- 1.3The study of conversational humor
- 1.3.2Defining and identifying conversational humor
- 1.4The study of humor markers
- 1.4.1Terminological issues in the study of humor markers
- 1.4.2Prosodic cues of humor
- 1.4.2.1Empirical and experimental studies of prosodic humor cues
- 1.4.3Laughter as a humor cue
- 1.4.4Irony cues
- 1.5Scope and organization of the volume
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