Prosody and Humor
Edited by Salvatore Attardo, Manuela Maria Wagner and Eduardo Urios-Aparisi
[Benjamins Current Topics, 55] 2013. v, 192 pp.
Manuela Maria Wagner
List of John Benjamins publications for which Manuela Maria Wagner plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Discourse studies | Humor studies | Phonology | Pragmatics
Prosody and Humor
Edited by Salvatore Attardo, Manuela Maria Wagner and Eduardo Urios-Aparisi
Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 19:2 (2011) vi, 194 pp.
Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Discourse studies | Philosophy | Pragmatics
2013 Introduction: Prosody and humor Prosody and Humor, Attardo, Salvatore, Manuela Maria Wagner and Eduardo Urios-Aparisi (eds.), pp. 1–13 | Article
2013 Prosody of humor in Sex and the City Prosody and Humor, Attardo, Salvatore, Manuela Maria Wagner and Eduardo Urios-Aparisi (eds.), pp. 167–188 | 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
2011 Prosody and humor Prosody and Humor, Attardo, Salvatore, Manuela Maria Wagner and Eduardo Urios-Aparisi (eds.), pp. 189–201 | Article
2011 Prosody of humor in Sex and the City Pragmatics & Cognition 19:3, pp. 507–529 | 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