@article{jbp:/content/journals/10.1075/rcl.11.2.12att, author = "Attardo, Salvatore and Pickering, Lucy and Lomotey, Fofo and Menjo, Shigehito", title = "Multimodality in Conversational Humor", journal= "Review of Cognitive Linguistics. Published under the auspices of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association", year = "2013", volume = "11", number = "2", pages = "402-416", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1075/rcl.11.2.12att", url = "https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/rcl.11.2.12att", publisher = "John Benjamins", issn = "1877-9751", type = "Journal Article", keywords = "conversation", keywords = "smiling", keywords = "multimodality", keywords = "laughter", keywords = "prosody", keywords = "humor", abstract = "The paper presents the analysis of the humor found in four dyadic conversations. The results of the conversational data match those of previous studies (Pickering et al., 2009): no differences were found in volume or speech-rate between humorous pause units and non-humorous ones. Similarly, pauses were not found to mark humorous turns. However, the result that punch-lines showed lower pitch than non-humorous parts of the text was not replicated: humorous pause units showed no significant differences in pitch from non-humorous ones. Smiling is found to mark humor only in a general sense of “setting the frame” and is not integrated (i.e., co-extensive) with the humor.", }