The function of face gestures and head movements in spontaneous humorous communication
This paper assesses the results of a multimodal analysis of humorous instances found in a collection of 14 interviews from The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. The interviews have been imported and annotated in ELAN for head movements and face expressions. Only the interviewees’ remarks are studied i...
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Cracow Tertium Society for the Promotion of Language Studies
2019-07-01
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| Online Access: | https://www.europeanjournalofhumour.org/index.php/ejhr/article/view/349 |
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| description | This paper assesses the results of a multimodal analysis of humorous instances found in a collection of 14 interviews from The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. The interviews have been imported and annotated in ELAN for head movements and face expressions. Only the interviewees’ remarks are studied in order to ensure the analysis of spontaneous speech, avoiding mostly pre-scripted host’s comments and questions. The results demonstrate that there are no gestures consistently and recurrently paired with humour. Therefore, none of the multimodal cues found in the sample can be considered markers of humour. Furthermore, the functions of gestures identified are consistent with the uses reported in previous multimodal studies of humorous and non-humorous communication found in the literature. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4321208f757249bb9da88ed68e6b8e172022-12-21T23:02:01ZengCracow Tertium Society for the Promotion of Language StudiesThe European Journal of Humour Research2307-700X2019-07-017212910.7592/EJHR2019.7.2.bujan271The function of face gestures and head movements in spontaneous humorous communicationMarta Buján0Universidad de ValladolidThis paper assesses the results of a multimodal analysis of humorous instances found in a collection of 14 interviews from The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. The interviews have been imported and annotated in ELAN for head movements and face expressions. Only the interviewees’ remarks are studied in order to ensure the analysis of spontaneous speech, avoiding mostly pre-scripted host’s comments and questions. The results demonstrate that there are no gestures consistently and recurrently paired with humour. Therefore, none of the multimodal cues found in the sample can be considered markers of humour. Furthermore, the functions of gestures identified are consistent with the uses reported in previous multimodal studies of humorous and non-humorous communication found in the literature.https://www.europeanjournalofhumour.org/index.php/ejhr/article/view/349multimodality and humour |
| spellingShingle | Marta Buján The function of face gestures and head movements in spontaneous humorous communication The European Journal of Humour Research multimodality and humour |
| title | The function of face gestures and head movements in spontaneous humorous communication |
| title_full | The function of face gestures and head movements in spontaneous humorous communication |
| title_fullStr | The function of face gestures and head movements in spontaneous humorous communication |
| title_full_unstemmed | The function of face gestures and head movements in spontaneous humorous communication |
| title_short | The function of face gestures and head movements in spontaneous humorous communication |
| title_sort | function of face gestures and head movements in spontaneous humorous communication |
| topic | multimodality and humour |
| url | https://www.europeanjournalofhumour.org/index.php/ejhr/article/view/349 |
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