A Multimodal Study of Sarcasm in Interactional Humor / / Sabina Tabacaru.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2019 Part 1
• VerfasserIn: Tabacaru, Sabina,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL] , 40
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XII, 273 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Foreword --; Contents --; 1. Introduction --; 2. Theoretical premises --; 3. Corpus, coding tools, and quantitative overview --; 4. Sarcasm: Meaning and incongruity --; 5. Multimodality and sarcasm: Reasons to raise a few eyebrows --; 6. Conclusions and prospects --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110629446; 9783110762464; 9783110719567; 9783110742978; 9783110610765; 9783110664232; 9783110610307; 9783110606287
• ISSN: 1861-4078
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110629446
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Sabina Tabacaru.

The corpus-based approach to humor offers innovative and more than plausible objectives, supported by sound arguments, which underline the need to analyze humor both verbally and non-verbally. The cognitive linguistic account of humor sets to analyze a corpus of humorous meanings in interaction and to present the elements that help to create the humorous effects: common ground, intersubjectivity, facial expressions, speakers' attitude, etc. The large corpus of examples annotated in ELAN offers a much-needed multimodal perspective of humor, which encompasses all the different techniques used by speakers. The present analysis offers inspiring insight for future research, in different fields of study: multimodality, humor, and psycholinguistics. The study reveals the need of analyzing both verbal and non-verbal elements in discourse in general and humor in particular as co-speech gestures are essential for the understanding of the message as intended by the speakers.