Does laughter cue ironic intent?

Chiara Mazzocconi (1, 2, 3) , A Barrault (2, 3) , Maud Champagne-Lavau (2, 3)

1 ILCB - Institute of Language, Communication and the Brain
2 LPL - Laboratoire Parole et Langage
3 AMU - Aix Marseille Université

Laughter is informative about mental states and able to affect the meaning of our utterances. We propose to investigate for the first time the interaction of laughter and contextual incongruity in the attribution of ironic intentions to speakers. Our study will have implication for the refining of the Constraint Satisfaction Model of irony processing (Campbell and Katz, 2012) and highlighting the importance of laughter in semantic and pragmatic processing.

Mots clés: irony; laughter; contextual incongruity

Domaines: Linguistique; Sciences cognitives

Chiara Mazzocconi, A Barrault, Maud Champagne-Lavau. Does laughter cue ironic intent?. 2021. ⟨hal-03878577⟩