Sourire pour négocier des transitions thématiques de conversations en Français

International audienceThis study focuses on participants’ smiling behavior as a resource for negotiating topic transitions in French conversations. The smile will be analyzed as a resource during topic transitions: through its intensities and its development. This study will show that the speaker’s smiling dynamic contributes to initiating a transition and that the hearer tends to synchronize his/her smile with the speaker to ratify it

Le CID - Corpus of Interactional Data -: protocoles, conventions, annotations

L'analyse du langage et de la parole repose sur l'étude de domaines variés allant de la phonétique à la pragmatique, tout en prenant en compte les modalités de leur expression. Pour la linguistique moderne, si chaque domaine dispose d'un certain niveau d'autonomie, il ne peut être expliqué que dans son interaction avec les autres : l'information linguistique est le produit de la convergence de multiples sources d'information, information aussi contrainte par l'environnement où le message a été produit. L'analyse linguistique ne peut donc se faire qu'en tenant compte des différentes modalités d'expression de l'information. Mais à ce jour, aucune théorie ne traite de manière intégrée des informations issues des différents niveaux de la chaîne linguistique, qui est par essence un contenu perceptuel multimodal. Bien que de nombreux projets d'annotation se soient développés ces dernières années, des problèmes subsistent: les ressources multimodales annotées n'existent quasiment pas pour le français ; les standards d'annotation ne répondent pas complètement aux besoins et les outils ne sont pas adaptés. Or, le développement de ce type de ressources est utile à plusieurs titres,entre autres la description des informations de chacun des domaines et de leurs interactions. Nous présentons le Corpus of Interactional Data (CID), corpus audio et vidéo comptant actuellement 8h de dilogue en français, les annotations à l'étude (phonétique, prosodique, morphosyntaxique, mimo-gestuelle) et leur état de réalisation

Teasing in casual conversations: an opportunistic discursive strategy

This paper presents a study of teasing in casual conversations through the analysis of a specfic device: linguistic pinning. This paper focuses on discursive functionning of teasing by pinning and on some reactions such a phenomenon triggers

L’humour dans les interactions conversationnelles: jeux et enjeux

The aim of this thesis is the linguistic study of conversational humor in everyday speech: humorous devices, interactional functions of humor and the way participants manage a humorous sequence.Sur la base d'un corpus constitué de conversations familières en français, cette thèse porte sur l'analyse linguistique de l'humour dans nos interactions quotidiennes: les procédés linguistiques de l'humour, ses fonctions dans la conversation et sa gestion interactive par les interlocuteurs

Sharing a laugh at others: Humorous convergence in French conversation

International audienceThe aim of this article is to clarify the fuzzy notion of “successful humour”. It focuses onhumorous sequences in French face-to-face interactions which are both successful and have asame type of target: a collective “Other” (foreign culture, a French or foreign institution, aFrench or foreign socio-professional group). It will be shown that laughing about/at others(with all the aggressiveness this could imply) is not inconsistent with the necessarycollaborative aspect of the conversation.On the contrary, the necessary collaboration between the participants will be highlightedthrough analysing humour in two different but complementary ways. Firstly, analysinghumour through one specific target (the collective “Other”) will show that the participantsrely on shared knowledge to display fictitious identities allowing them to construct humour.Secondly, a structural analysis of successful humorous sequences will deepen the notion ofsuccessful humour, highlighting two different structures: a two-part structure and a three-partstructure. While the terms “successful humour” will be restricted to the former, the notion of“humorous convergence” will be proposed to refer to the latter.This study is based on 51 successful humorous sequences extracted from three face-to-faceinteractions audio- and video-recorded in an anechoic room at Aix-Marseille University,France

Book review: Winter Froemel, Esme and Zirker Angelika (eds.) (2015), Enjeux du jeu de mots. Perspectives linguistiques et littéraires [Stakes of wordplay. Linguistic and literary perspectives

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

International audienceThis 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

The "dark side" of humor

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The "dark side" of humor

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Some interactional reasons for failed humor in conversation

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