Prosody and humor / edited by Salvatore Attardo, Manuela Maria Wagner and Eduardo Urios-Aparisi.
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 prosodic...
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
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[2013]
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| Series: | Benjamins current topics ;
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| Genre/Form: | humor. Humor. |
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