Béatrice Priego-Valverde

List of John Benjamins publications for which Béatrice Priego-Valverde plays a role.

Articles

Priego-Valverde, Béatrice 2016 Teasing in casual conversations: An opportunistic discursive strategyMetapragmatics of Humor: Current research trends, Ruiz-Gurillo, Leonor (ed.), pp. 215–233 | Article
In order to study teasing in casual conversations, I will focus the present work on a specific humorous device that frequently occurs in casual conversations: “linguistic pinning” (Traverso, 1999) described as a verbatim repetition of a word or expression said by the hearer to create humor.… read more
Bertrand, Roxane and Béatrice Priego-Valverde 2013 Does prosody play a specific role in conversational humor?Prosody and Humor, Attardo, Salvatore, Manuela Maria Wagner and Eduardo Urios-Aparisi (eds.), pp. 143–165 | Article
In this paper we use Conversation Analysis (CA) to investigate conversational humor in talk-in-interaction. We attempt to better understand how the latter is produced and co-constructed by participants accounting for the devices used by participants in their sequential environment. The framework of… read more
Priego-Valverde, Béatrice 2012 Chapter 3. Speaking through other voices: Conversational humour as a polyphonic phenomenonSpaces of Polyphony, Lorda, Clara Ubaldina and Patrick Zabalbeascoa (eds.), pp. 43–54 | Chapter
Conversational humour is a complex phenomenon for a number of reasons. It is ambivalent (both aggressive and benevolent), and it is contextualized and based on shared knowledge (hence difficult to grasp fully by someone outside the group). In this study I will explore another reason for this… read more
Bertrand, Roxane and Béatrice Priego-Valverde 2011 Does prosody play a specific role in conversational humor?Prosody and Humor, Attardo, Salvatore, Manuela Maria Wagner and Eduardo Urios-Aparisi (eds.), pp. 333–356 | Article
In this paper we use Conversation Analysis (CA) to investigate conversational humor in talk-in-interaction. We attempt to better understand how the latter is produced and co-constructed by participants in accounting for the devices used by participants in their sequential environment. The… read more
Priego-Valverde, Béatrice 2009 Failed humor in conversation: A double voicing analysisHumor in Interaction, Norrick, Neal R. and Delia Chiaro (eds.), pp. 165–184 | Article
While humor in everyday conversation has been acknowledged widely as an area of linguistic research, failed humor has not received much linguistic attention. This paper describes unperceived humor and rejected humor, analyzing several examples from a conversational corpus using the double voicing… read more