Interactional Humor - (Language Play and Creativity [Lpc]) by Béatrice Priego-Valverde (Paperback)

About the Book

This book presents multimodal approaches to interactional humor in both face-to-face and mediated interactions. The aim of the book is twofold: first, to illustrate how various modalities of language work together to create and negotiate humor, taki

Book Synopsis

The central question explored in this volume is: How is humor multimodally produced, perceived, responded to, and negotiated? To this end, it offers a panorama of linguistic research on multimodal and interactional humor, based on different theoretical frameworks, corpora, and methodologies. Humor is considered as an activity that is interactionally achieved, regardless of whether the interaction in which it is embedded is face-to-face, computer-mediated, with a human or a robot, oral or written. The aim is to analyze both the linguistic resources of the participants (such as their lexicon, prosody, gestures, gazes, or smiles) and the semiotic resources that social networks and instant messaging platforms offer them (such as memes, gifs, or emojis).

About the Author

Béatrice Priego-Valverde, Aix-Marseille Université, Aix-en-Provence, France.