Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Discourse studies | Philosophy | Pragmatics
Attardo, Salvatore, Manuela Maria Wagner and Eduardo Urios-Aparisi 2013 Prosody and humorProsody and Humor, Attardo, Salvatore, Manuela Maria Wagner and Eduardo Urios-Aparisi (eds.), pp. 189–201 | Article
This chapter investigates the role of prosody in conversational humor in the HBO series Sex and the City (SATC) in an exploratory study. Specifically, we examine how pitch and pauses are part of the prosodic bundle that can be used to mark an utterance as humoristic. We find that the use of… read more
Attardo, Salvatore, Manuela Maria Wagner and Eduardo Urios-Aparisi 2011 Prosody and humorProsody and Humor, Attardo, Salvatore, Manuela Maria Wagner and Eduardo Urios-Aparisi (eds.), pp. 189–201 | Article
This article investigates the role of prosody in conversational humor in the HBO series Sex and the City (SATC) in an exploratory study. Specifically, we examine how pitch and pauses are part of the prosodic bundle that can be used to mark an utterance as humoristic. We find that the use of… read more