跨文化互动中的幽默:误解的来源还是共同点的建立者?多模态分析

IF 1.8 2区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Intercultural Pragmatics Pub Date : 2022-02-24 DOI:10.1515/ip-2022-0003

A. Ladilova, U. Schröder

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引用次数: 11

摘要

摘要本文探讨了会话幽默的三种情况，在这三种情况下，在跨文化互动中，参与者之间的幽默共建过程中，手势和韵律以及代码转换都发挥了作用。尽管研究互动中的幽默有着悠久的传统，但到目前为止，很少有研究从化身的角度包括手势——尤其是手动手势——并同时引起人们对幽默的跨文化影响的关注，包括代码转换的时刻。通过从多模式的角度观察德语和巴西语使用者之间的多方互动，我们将展示不同的符号资源，如凝视、姿势、头部和手势，以及韵律和代码切换，是如何显示出来以构建幽默的。我们的目的是通过展示三个具有不同程度成功幽默的例子来揭示幽默共建中交际资源的相互作用和复杂性：在第一个例子中，对话幽默只有德国参与者才能理解，而在第二个例子中幽默是由德国和巴西参与者成功共建的。然而，最后一个例子表明，每个人都理解幽默，但对幽默的理解不同——这也可能与该序列所嵌入的制度背景有关。

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Humor in intercultural interaction: A source for misunderstanding or a common ground builder? A multimodal analysis

Abstract The present paper explores three situations of conversational humor in which not only gesture and prosody but also code-switching play a role in the process of co-construction of humor among participants in an intercultural interaction. Despite the long tradition of studying humor in interaction, there has been little research so far which includes gesture – especially manual gesture – from an embodiment perspective and concurrently draws attention to the intercultural impact of humor, including moments of code-switching. By looking at multi-party interactions between German and Brazilian speakers from a multimodal perspective, we will show how different semiotic resources such as gaze, posture, head and hand gesture, as well as prosody and code-switching are displayed in order to construct humor. Our aim is to reveal the interplay and complexity of the communicative resources in the co-construction of humor by presenting three examples with different degrees of successful humor: While the conversational humor is only understood by the German co-participants in the first example, in the second example, the humor is co-constructed successfully by the German and Brazilian participants. Yet the last example reveals that the humor is understood by everybody but taken up differently what could also be related to the institutional context in which the sequence is embedded.

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Intercultural Pragmatics Multiple-

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3.10

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36.40%

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期刊介绍： Intercultural Pragmatics is a fully peer-reviewed forum for theoretical and applied pragmatics research. The goal of the journal is to promote the development and understanding of pragmatic theory and intercultural competence by publishing research that focuses on general theoretical issues, more than one language and culture, or varieties of one language. Intercultural Pragmatics encourages ‘interculturality’ both within the discipline and in pragmatic research. It supports interaction and scholarly debate between researchers representing different subfields of pragmatics including the linguistic, cognitive, social, and interlanguage paradigms. The intercultural perspective is relevant not only to each line of research within pragmatics but also extends to several other disciplines such as anthropology, theoretical and applied linguistics, psychology, communication, sociolinguistics, second language acquisition, and bi- and multilingualism. Intercultural Pragmatics makes a special effort to cross disciplinary boundaries. What we primarily look for is innovative approaches and ideas that do not always fit into existing paradigms, and lead to new ways of thinking about language. Intercultural Pragmatics has always encouraged the publication of theoretical papers including linguistic and philosophical pragmatics that are very important for research in intercultural pragmatics.