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Publication details [#66294]

Buján, Marta. 2019. The function of face gestures and head movements in spontaneous humorous communication. The European Journal of Humour Research 7 (2) : 1–29.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
bodily posture | communication | gesture | humor | interview | modality | spontaneous discourse
Place, Publisher
Cracow Tertium Society for the Promotion of Language Studies

Annotation

This paper explores function of face gestures and head movements in spontaneous humorous communication, evaluating the results of a multimodal assay of humorous instances found in a collection of 14 interviews from The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.