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'Stop kidding, I'm serious': Failed humor in French conversations

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This article investigates humor as non-bona-fide communication, in the case of humor produced by the recipient, while the main speaker is engaged in a serious storytelling, i.e. bona-fide communication. Taking into account the various interactional constraints weighing in on participants' roles and actions (humor included), and considering that these constraints are even more active in serious storytelling, the aim of this article is to investigate the switch from BFC into NBFC as a reason of failed humor. To do so, 105 instances of failed humor were collected from three audio and video recorded conversations taken from the CID corpus. Among them, 56 instances of failure are due to a switch from BFC into NBFC. And among those, 38 were produced in a storytelling context.
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hal-02565543 , version 1 (06-05-2020)

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Béatrice Priego-Valverde. 'Stop kidding, I'm serious': Failed humor in French conversations. Salvatore Attardo. Script-Based Semantics. Foundations and Applications. Essays in Honor of Victor Raskin, 2020. ⟨hal-02565543⟩
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