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Publication details [#51579]

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

Keywords

humor | joke | narrative | prosody | saliency

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.erlbaum.com/Journals/Electronic/electronic.htm

Annotation

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.