Lucy Pickering

List of John Benjamins publications for which Lucy Pickering plays a role.

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Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Discourse studies | Language acquisition | Language teaching | Pragmatics

Articles

Pickering, Lucy, Laura Di Ferrante, Carrie Bruce, Eric Friginal, Pamela Pearson and Julie Bouchard 2019 An introduction to the ANAWC: The AAC and Non-AAC Workplace CorpusInternational Journal of Corpus Linguistics 24:2, pp. 229–244 | Article
This paper presents an overview of the Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) and Non-AAC Workplace Corpus (ANAWC) (Pickering & Bruce, 2009). The corpus is the first resource of its kind that makes it possible to systematically study the typical language patterns of both AAC users and… read more
Pickering, Lucy and Vyvyan Evans 2018 Introduction. Discourse and cognitive perspectives on language learningLanguage Learning, Discourse and Cognition: Studies in the tradition of Andrea Tyler, Pickering, Lucy and Vyvyan Evans (eds.), pp. 1–8 | Chapter
Gironzetti, Elisa, Salvatore Attardo and Lucy Pickering 2016 Smiling, gaze, and humor in conversation: A pilot studyMetapragmatics of Humor: Current research trends, Ruiz-Gurillo, Leonor (ed.), pp. 235–254 | Article
This paper presents a pilot study, which is part of a larger research project intended to shed light on the role of smiling as a marker of humor in naturalistic conversation. Building on previous research (Attardo, Pickering, and Baker 2011; Calvo, Fernández-Martín, and Nummenmaa 2013; Calvo,… read more
Attardo, Salvatore, Lucy Pickering, Fofo Lomotey and Shigehito Menjo 2015 Multimodality in Conversational HumorMultimodality and Cognitive Linguistics, Pinar Sanz, María Jesús (ed.), pp. 181–194 | Article
The paper presents the analysis of the humor found in four dyadic conversations. The results of the conversational data match those of previous studies (Pickering et al., 2009): no differences were found in volume or speech-rate between humorous pause units and non-humorous ones. Similarly, pauses… read more
Attardo, Salvatore, Lucy Pickering and Amanda Baker 2013 Prosodic and multimodal markers of humor in conversationProsody and Humor, Attardo, Salvatore, Manuela Maria Wagner and Eduardo Urios-Aparisi (eds.), pp. 37–60 | Article
This case study extends the findings of Pickering et al. 2009 to the domain of conversational humor. We find that, as was the case in humorous narratives, conversational humor is not marked by higher pitch or volume, increased speech rate, or significant pauses. Unlike narrative humor,… read more
Attardo, Salvatore, Lucy Pickering, Fofo Lomotey and Shigehito Menjo 2013 Multimodality in Conversational HumorMultimodality and Cognitive Linguistics, Pinar Sanz, María Jesús (ed.), pp. 402–416 | Article
The paper presents the analysis of the humor found in four dyadic conversations. The results of the conversational data match those of previous studies (Pickering et al., 2009): no differences were found in volume or speech-rate between humorous pause units and non-humorous ones. Similarly, pauses… read more
Attardo, Salvatore, Lucy Pickering and Amanda Baker 2011 Prosodic and multimodal markers of humor in conversationProsody and Humor, Attardo, Salvatore, Manuela Maria Wagner and Eduardo Urios-Aparisi (eds.), pp. 224–247 | Article
This case study extends the findings of Pickering et al. 2009 to the domain of conversational humor. We find that, as was the case in humorous narratives, conversational humor is not marked by higher pitch or volume, increased speech rate, or significant pauses. Unlike narrative humor,… read more
Rivera-Castillo, Yolanda and Lucy Pickering 2004 Phonetic correlates of stress and tone in a mixed systemJournal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 19:2, pp. 261–284 | Article