The prosodic framing of humour in conversational narratives: Evidence from Greek data

Journal of Greek Linguistics

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 187-212

  Archakis, Argiris ^a   Giakoumelou, Maria ^a   Papazachariou, Dimitris ^a   Tsakona, Villy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

Author keywords

conversational narratives; framing of humour; intensity; jab lines; pauses; prosodic features; speech rate

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959751198     PISSN: 15665844     EISSN: 15699846     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156658410X531375     Document Type: Article

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