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Attardo, Salvatore, Lucy Pickering, Jodi Eisterhold, Marcella Corduas, Brenna Seifried and Alyson Eggleston. 2009. Prosodic Markers of Saliency in Humorous Narratives. Discourse Processes 46 (6) : 517–540.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
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Place, Publisher
Routledge

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This paper explores whether speakers prosodically mark punch lines in short humorous narratives, and, if so, how. The folk theory of joke-delivery, with significantly louder punch lines, is largely rejected.