Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. Part 1: Face-to-face interactions
5. 1 A multimodal approach to children’s development of humor in family life 15
6. 2 On target. On the role of eye-gaze during teases in face-to-face multiparty interaction 53
7. 3 Humorous Smiling: A Reverse Cross-Validation of the Smiling Intensity Scale for the Identification of Conversational Humor 87
8. 4 Alternative conceptualizations of the Smiling Intensity Scale (SIS) and their applications to the identification of humor 109
9. 5 Facial gestures and laughter as a resource for negotiating humor in conversation 131
10. 6 Multimodal humor in human-robot interaction 169
11. Part 2: Mediated interactions
12. 7 Facial expressions as multimodal markers of humor: More evidence from scripted and non-scripted interactions 209
13. 8 Emojis and jocular flattery in Chinese instant messaging interactions 231
14. 9 More than laughter: Multimodal humour and the negotiation of ingroup identities in mobile instant messaging interactions 263
15. 10 Humour and creativity in a family of strangers on Facebook 289
16. 11 “Loanword translation and corrective acts are incongruous”: Debating metapragmatic stereotypes through humorous memes 319
17. Index 355