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Chapter 3 Conversational humor from a discourse-semantic perspective
3.2
Mental lexicon
Giora (1997) => Graded Salience Hypothesis (意想不到) & Optimal Innovation Hypothesis (夠顛覆傳統)
Text/discourse processing
Raskin (1985)
Norrick (1986)
Deautomatization of the default construal (Cognitive-linguistic-based)
Zima (2013a; 2013b): format co-construction
Change profiling of the phrase
ex: return it => return for recycling
Brône (2008; 2009): trumpting sequence
3.3 The norm
Greenall (2002) socio-cognitive
constraints
Bednarek (2005) specialized frames (non-linguistic) and communicative frames (text type, genre, communicative principle)
3.3.2 Linguistic convention
wordplay
grammatical construction
3.3.2 Textual and discursive regularities
Violation of topical integrity =>
humor (however, this is in opposite to Giora's relevance requirement
Ex1: absurd humor (p.51)
Ex2: accidental lapse (p.51)
Compositional completeness (the third part violates relevance requirement) => humor
Adjacency pair
Hear's expectation
Deviation of rules of order (Bilmes, 1988)
Bousfield (2007) => psycho-social aspect of preference
This is the case when a (psycho-socially) dispreferred action is realized in a preferred turn design, a situation which often characterizes conversational irony (Clift 1999) or mock politeness (Bousfield 2007).
"Conversational expectations of what constitutes a next turn are fulfilled on the level of form, but undermined on the level of content” (Clift 1999: 529).
Syntactic co-construction
3.3.3 Genre
When identifying a strech of talk as a certain genre, expectation will be generated
3.3.4 Social norms
Politeness research is a good start for socail norms
Mock politeness: sarcasm
Mock impolitenes: teasing
從teasing (playful violation of behavioral norms) 入手亦可知道對人們來說甚麼是social norm
3.3.5 World knowledge
3.1
Greenall/Kotthof: socio-pragmatic maxims (constraints)
1 Grice
Relevance Theory
Revised Relevance Theory (2013)
Post-Grician (2014)
Jaszczolt’s Default Semantics (p.121)
Goatly (1994) suggested to combine RT and register theory
Register
includes textual structure, style, social relationship, purpose
What is humor?
Humor was conceived of as a form of cognitive creativity triggering rich and unusual inferences, and generating new meanings and senses originating from norm-breaching
Chapter 2 Conversational joking from a discourse-analytical perspective
Two goals: assess humor by two frameworks
Ethnography
剛好是CA的sequential context特質容易缺乏用來解釋reation to humor的要素 (p.28)
CA
Sequential context only allows
小範圍分析
(p.28)
嚴謹,但容易落得視野狹隘 (p.28)
2.1 Reconstructing laughables
2.1.3 Problems and challenges with the laughable-approach
CA not interested in the reasons for laughter but
focuses on practices which often attract laughter
2.2 Contextualizing humor
Contextualization theory
=>
situated and contextbound process of interpretation (i.e., conversational inferencing)
(Grumperz, 1982) (p.30)
Interactive frame (p.33)
有賴
contextualization cues
來使humorous utterance有別於non-humorous one
Linguistic cues
Repetition (audible effect)
學人家講話
Iconicity
學猴子叫
Lexicalization imitation
不誠懇的"哈哈"
I'm joking
Seriously (signals the termination of joking)
Talking about trivial matters in very formal words or using formal address
Pragmatic cues
Why classified as pragmatic?
They affect the organization of conversation, the strategy according to which interlocutors couch or ‘do’ their speech acts (p.70)
Repetition
Structural parallelism (一搭一唱創造完美syntactic組合)
Animated speech
Allusion
Exaggeration and over/understatement (flouting maxim of quantity)
p.69提到重要的詞,前面沒看到 (peripheral)
Cues relating to contents
Simile and metaphor
Fictionalization (flouting maxim of quality)
Detailed representation (flouting maxim of manner, be breif)
Absurdity
Topic choice (face-value-threatening, about deviant behaviors)
Prosodic cues
Knowledge frame (p.33)
Introduction
Three approaches to conversational humor
Structuralist manner
Discourse analysis
Incongruity-resolution
The approach of this book
Analyzed within a framework which combines
both cognitive and discursive
or pragmatic perspectives.
Two goals
(1) how various forms and genres of humor trigger contrastive interpretations on different levels of talk-in-interaction – each time clashing with a
cognitively privileged option
that matches the expectations nurtured by
norms and normalcy
(在p.5-6亦有大力闡釋derailed norm).
(2) we will demonstrate how
formal cues
and features setting apart humorous sequences from surrounding, non-humorous discourse facilitate and contribute to this process.
Chapter 4 Conversational humor from a discourse-semantic perspective
4.1/4.2
Attempt on conceptualizing cognitive-discourse interface (the whole process and the final product of interaction)
Langacker (2001)
Current Discourse Space (CDS)
Space裡有啥:
1) ground
2) viewing frame
Clark (1996)
Two-layered joint pretense
缺點
It did not elaborate on colateral signals to layered activities
4.3
Cognitive in interaction
Fauconnier and Turner’s blending theory (2003)
What is blending?
Novel conceptualizations
How does blending go?
Combintion and interaction of framed mental space
Effects of blending?
Emotional, rhetorical, etc.
Examples?
Ex1: Understanding waste disposal in terms of a sports game and turns it into a fun activity
Ex2: The phrase “Murdock knocks out Iacocca” (metahpor)
Combination of conversation analysis with mental space allows interpretation other than introspection
CA's discursive unit
cognitive-pragmatic實踐者:
Langlotz (2008; 2013) =>
將mental-space builder (cognitive) 及 contexualization cues (discourse) 概念兜在一起 (p.212)
The goal of this subsection (p.206)
Combining ideas from discourse and conversation analysis with the cognitive approaches of mental space and blending theory to develop a framework for the analysis of humorous cognition in interaction
Subgoal
Empirical backstage of mental space
A good start: Fauconnier's backstage cognition
Impact of multimodal input
Humor-specific cognitive contrasts in conversation
4.3.2.1 Frame-shifting
4.3.2.3 Dissolution of entrenched blends
4.3.2.2 Creative blends
Book title: Understanding Conversational Joking