The present paper introduces the concept of “humor syntony” defined as felicitous humorous conversational exchange. Humorous exchanges are considered language games (WITTGENSTEIN 1953: 12). The model we present assumes two aspects of communication: a humorous text needs to have some features that make it potentially humorous (ATTARDO and RASKIN 1991) and, from the metacommunicative point of view (BATESON 1954, with explicit reference to Gestalt theory), the exchange is framed as humorous. The interactants’ behavior may then range widely from humor support (HAY 2001), to mode adoption (ATTARDO 2001). Such moves are organized in 4 levels (form level-1 to level+2) depending on the degree of humorous syntony reached by interlocutors. We present...
Not every instrument involved in professional or everyday interaction with others allows one to move...
International audienceThe aim of this article is to clarify the fuzzy notion of “successful humour”....
I propose a method to study interactional ironic humorous utterances in Spanish. In GRIALE research ...
The present paper introduces the concept of “humor syntony” defined as felicitous humorous conversat...
The aim of this paper is to single out some characteristics (favouring and hindering factors) of syn...
The paramount goal of this paper is to tease out a number of universal communicative phenomena which...
The aim of this article is to provide a system for analysis of verbal humorous interactions that inc...
textThe phenomenon of laughter has intrigued many philosophers, psychologists, sociologists, and – m...
The article discusses humorous conversational activities (e.g. jokes, teasing, joint fantasizing) in...
This book examines what speakers try to achieve by producing \u2018laughter-talk\u2019 (the talk pre...
Humans use humour to ease communication problems in human-human interaction and in a similar way hum...
Humor is built and co-constructed by the participants in conversation, by means of terms and / or at...
In this paper, we provide an in-depth cognitive analysis of a specific humor strategy we coin "trump...
This book is the first edited volume dedicated specifically to humor in interaction. It is a rich co...
The article concerns the role of the conversational pairs which decide of the comedy genesis. Moreo...
Not every instrument involved in professional or everyday interaction with others allows one to move...
International audienceThe aim of this article is to clarify the fuzzy notion of “successful humour”....
I propose a method to study interactional ironic humorous utterances in Spanish. In GRIALE research ...
The present paper introduces the concept of “humor syntony” defined as felicitous humorous conversat...
The aim of this paper is to single out some characteristics (favouring and hindering factors) of syn...
The paramount goal of this paper is to tease out a number of universal communicative phenomena which...
The aim of this article is to provide a system for analysis of verbal humorous interactions that inc...
textThe phenomenon of laughter has intrigued many philosophers, psychologists, sociologists, and – m...
The article discusses humorous conversational activities (e.g. jokes, teasing, joint fantasizing) in...
This book examines what speakers try to achieve by producing \u2018laughter-talk\u2019 (the talk pre...
Humans use humour to ease communication problems in human-human interaction and in a similar way hum...
Humor is built and co-constructed by the participants in conversation, by means of terms and / or at...
In this paper, we provide an in-depth cognitive analysis of a specific humor strategy we coin "trump...
This book is the first edited volume dedicated specifically to humor in interaction. It is a rich co...
The article concerns the role of the conversational pairs which decide of the comedy genesis. Moreo...
Not every instrument involved in professional or everyday interaction with others allows one to move...
International audienceThe aim of this article is to clarify the fuzzy notion of “successful humour”....
I propose a method to study interactional ironic humorous utterances in Spanish. In GRIALE research ...