Faces of sarcasm. Exploring raised eyebrows with sarcasm in French political debates

Tabacaru, Sabina

doi:10.1515/9783110652246-012

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“…Colston (2020) maintains that gaze aversion is a feature of irony, while Caucci & Kreuz (2012) report looks to the recipient to accompany an ironic remark. Other kinesic features that are sometimes reported to accompany irony include raised eyebrows and frowns (Tabacaru & Lemmens 2014;Tabacaru 2019Tabacaru , 2020, rapid blinking (Kreuz 2020), tightened lips, smiles and laughter (Caucci & Kreuz 2012) as well as head nods (Caucci & Kreuz 2012;Tabacaru 2019) and head tilts (Tabacaru 2019). In contrast to these findings, Attardo et al (2003) find the so-called 'blank face' to be prominent in their data.…”

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As if that wasn't enough: Englishas ifclauses as multimodal utterance constructions

Lehmann¹

2022

English Language and Linguistics

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The following article reports on a multimodal corpus study of English as if constructions. The results of this study suggest that formulaic and insubordinate as if constructions are prosodically chunked as clauses, with formulaic as if constructions uttered with significantly higher pitch and insubordinate as if constructions with lower pitch when being compared with subordinate uses. In addition, insubordinate as if clauses are occasionally accompanied by frowns. It is argued that, although both constructions convey an ironic interpretation, multimodal markers of irony play only a minor role in explaining the findings. Instead, it is argued that the non-verbal features are construction-specific and can reasonably be explained as cross-modal collostructions. As such, the present article provides a description of the non-verbal features accompanying English as if clauses and provides a theoretical explanation. In doing so, some modest evidence for a multimodal Utterance Construction Grammar is also presented.

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