36.1041, Books: Multimodal mockery in face-to-face interaction: de Vries (2025)

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Date: 25-Mar-2025
From: Jan Martin [lotdissertations-fgw at uva.nl]
Subject: Multimodal mockery in face-to-face interaction: de Vries (2025)


Title: Multimodal mockery in face-to-face interaction
Subtitle: On the negotiation of nonseriousness and stance
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke
(LOT)
           http://www.lotpublications.nl/
Book URL: https://dx.medra.org/10.48273/LOT0685

Author(s): Clarissa de Vries

Paperback
ISBN: 978-94-6093-470-4
Pages: 278

Abstract:

This dissertation investigates the ubiquitous phenomenon of mockery as
a case study of complex stancetaking. The starting point is the
observation that stancetaking, the expression of our attitudes toward
the world around us, is inherently multimodal. What is missing,
however, is a multimodal and interactional analysis of more complex
forms of stancetaking. Mockery presents an intriguing case to explore
this, as it involves a layered constellation in which a stance on a
serious layer is heightened, diminished, or inverted on a non-serious
layer.
Using three video corpora of spontaneous triadic interactions between
friends, the dissertation examines the role of bodily-visual resources
in negotiating stance and nonseriousness in sequences of mockery. 1556
cases of mockery were identified, which were analyzed in three
empirical studies on initiating, managing, and elaborating the
mockery. Taking a primarily qualitative and sequential approach, these
studies show that bodily-visual resources contribute to the
negotiation of mockery in interaction: They perform a range of
functions, including stancetaking and alignment, managing the
participation framework, and depicting and indexing personae. As a
whole, this dissertation contributes to the growing body of work on
multimodal stancetaking, and provides a basis for a systematic
integration of multimodality in the study of humor in interaction.

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics

Subject Language(s): Dutch (nld)




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