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A multi-layered analysis Laughter

Year: 2016

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: This paper presents a multi-layered classification of laughter in French and Chinese dialogues (from the DUEL corpus). Analysis related to the form, the semantic meaning and the function of laughter and its context provides a detailed study of the range of uses of laughter and their distributions. A similar distribution was observed in most of the data collected for French and Chi-nese. We ground our classification in a formal semantic and pragmatic analysis. We propose that most functions of laughter can be analyzed by positing a unified meaning with two dimensions, which when aligned with rich contextual reasoning , yields a wide range of functions. However, we also argue that a proper treatment of laughter involves a significant conceptual modification of information state account of dialogue to incorporate emotive aspects of interaction.

Source: HAL

Authors: Mazzocconi, Chiara, Tian, Ye, Ginzburg, Jonathan

Institutions: Approches Linguistiques Théoriques, Appliquées et Expérimentales : langues et cultures connectées, Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle

Language: English

Topic: Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies

Subfield: Language and Linguistics

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2527480097

FWCI: 5.16

Cites: 22

Cited by: 4

Related to: 10