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Feyaerts, Kurt. 2013. Tackling the complexity of spontaneous humorous interaction. An integrated classroom-modeled corpus approach. In Ruiz Gurillo, Leonor and M. Belén Alvarado Ortega, eds. Irony and Humor. From pragmatics to discourse. John Benjamins. pp. 243–268.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
John Benjamins

Annotation

This contribution focuses on three major aspects of the recently developed Corpus Interactional Humor (Corinth). First, it describes the socio-cognitive account of meaning, against the background of which the corpus is designed. Language use is basically a dynamic intersubjective process, in which interlocutors coordinate both their production and interpretation. An adequate analysis of (humorous) meaning therefore heavily depends on the notion of perspectivization, from which one gains the insight that the meaning of many humorous utterances is realized on different layers. Second, it describes the educational context, in which the corpus is embedded and finally, third, the main section of this article elaborates on the internal corpus design, focusing on the multiple parameters and values that constitute the annotation grid of the corpus.