Prediction of Shared Laughter for Human-Robot Dialogue

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Divesh Lala ◽  
Koji Inoue ◽  
Tatsuya Kawahara
Keyword(s):  
Shared Laughter

Identifying a French-specific laughter particle

2002 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 263-277
Author(s):  
Yvette Ellis
Keyword(s):  
Terminal Position ◽  
Shared Laughter

Aspirated sounds placed in a stream of talk prior to the onset of laughter are oriented to by interactants as minimal-equivocal laugh particles. These particles are available to carry out various interactional tasks, signalling an opportunity for co-participants to co-ordinate their laughter, to join in an episode of shared laughter for example. They may also contribute to keying actions as non-serious.The analysis of data from my corpus of French talk-in-interaction has revealed several instances of a voiceless palatal fricative following a word-final high front vowed [i]. This sound will be shown to occupy interactional slots generally associated with minimal-equivocal laughter particles. From evidence of its placement in sequences of turns keyed as non-serious, accompanying dispreferred actions, and in a terminal position in interactional sequences, the voiceless palatal fricative will be shown to be oriented to by French speakers as a minimal-equivocal laugh particle.

scholarly journals “How is these kids meant to make it out the ghetto now?” Community cohesion and communities of laughter in British multicultural comedy

2017 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Ilott
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Gang Members ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Cohesion ◽  
British Muslims ◽  
Shared Laughter

This article uses readings of Mark Mylod’s Ali G Indahouse, Joe Cornish’s Attack the Block, and Chris Morris’s Four Lions to argue against a political trend for laying the blame for the purported failure of British multiculturalism at the hands of individual communities. Through my readings of these comic films, I suggest that popular constructions of “community” based on assumptions about cultural and religious homogeneity are rightly challenged, and new communities are created through shared laughter. Comedy’s structural engagement with taboo means that stereotypes which have gained currency through media and political discourse that seeks to demonize particular groups of young men (Muslims and gang members, for example) are foregrounded. By being brought to the forefront and exposed, these stereotypes can be engaged with and challenged through ridicule and demonstrations of incongruity. Furthermore, I suggest that power relations are made explicit through joking structures that work to include or exclude, meaning that the comedies can draw and redraw communities of laughter in a manner that effectively challenges notions of communities as discrete, homogeneous, and closely connected to cultural heritage. The article works against constructions of British Muslims as the problem community par excellence by using multicultural discourse to contextualize the representation of British Muslims and demonstrate how the discourse has repressed the role of political, social, and economic structures in a focus on “self-segregating” communities.

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Ross Carroll
Keyword(s):  
Moral Sense ◽  
Building Community ◽  
Individual Self ◽  
Shared Laughter

This chapter talks about the utility of ridicule and how this can help in building community. It discusses John Hobbes' view of ridicule and refers to it as 'Hobbesian,' an understanding of laughter as an expression of prideful superiority. To look at ridicule through a Hobbesian lens is to call into doubt the very possibility of a safe or inoffensive jest. For Hobbes, then, the problem was not that the strong would constantly laugh at the weak but that vainglorious mockers would provoke angry retaliation from those whose dignity they managed to offend. The chapter also discusses the Shaftesburian view of ridicule as a contrast to the Hobbesian view. Shaftesburian laughter could be more easily shared in company without anyone present feeling slighted or diminished. No philosophy that grounded laughter in individual self-glory could account for how shared laughter forged friendship and conviviality. Ridicule, on this view, was effective against vice because, once exposed, vice naturally inspires contempt in anyone with an uncorrupted moral sense. For Shaftesburians, certain behaviours and traits were intrinsically ridiculous, meaning that any properly constituted mind should dismiss them with laughter once exposed. On the Shaftesburian view, the element of contempt that had been so central to the Hobbesian view could never be disavowed completely. On the contrary, it was from contempt that ridicule derived both its danger and its practical efficacy as an instrument of enlightenment. The chapter presents the argument that declaring ridicule uncivil is to deny its sociable and emancipatory potential.

scholarly journals Revenge of the N[Z]erds?: 'Flight of the Conchords' as Good Humour

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mike Lloyd
Keyword(s):  
Shared Laughter

The case study Flight of the Conchords is discussed to arrive at a better understanding of what good humor is. The Conchords does achieve shared laughter, and successfully minimises the tendency to mock and ostracise.

Rhetoric and Old Comedy

2014 ◽  
pp. 108-120
Author(s):  
Daphne O'Regan
Keyword(s):  
Rhetorical Theory ◽  
Crucial Question ◽  
Old Comedy ◽  
Natural Man ◽  
Human Animal ◽  
Verbal Strategies ◽  
Traditional Norms ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Shared Laughter

What happens in a democracy when sophistic specialists sell new verbal strategies advertised as being violently effective, disruptive of traditional norms, and targeted at dominance? This question gripped Athens, riveted by rhetoric’s triumphs. Contemporary comedy, the art most akin to rhetoric, responded. Exploiting the convergence of generic norms (figured by the comic costume’s gut and phallus) and the claims of Protagoras, Gorgias, and other sophists, Aristophanes’s Clouds staged one answer. Logos becomes a by-product of the stomach (gaster), which natural man farts out, the familiar source of sophistic theory and comic laughter alike. The impact of nature (physis) goes further. Brutally mocking philosophical, democratic, and comic optimism about the power of persuasion, the Clouds’ lethal debates enact force as the preferred persuasive strategy of the human animal, onstage and off. So why listen? Rhetorical theory sidesteps this crucial question. But shared laughter nourishes a civic world whose bonds may bridge this gap.

Solo or shared laughter in coparticipant criticism in Japanese conversation

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-149
Author(s):  
Hiroko Tanaka
Keyword(s):  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Preliminary Results ◽  
Considerable Work ◽  
Shared Laughter

This study employs conversation analysis to examine solo production and sharing of laughter in the delivery and reception of coparticipant criticism in Japanese conversation. I argue that whilst laughter is routinely used by either the deliverer or recipient of criticism, it may be dispreferred for laughter to be shared by both parties with reference to a given criticism. Moreover, whereas solo laughter by either the deliverer or recipient of criticism tends to lead to a relatively speedy resolution of a criticism sequence, shared laughter between deliverer and recipient may signal interactional trouble and take considerable work to resolve. Such patterns suggest that even though criticising is itself a dispreferred action, shared laughter by both parties is potentially markedly dispreferred. Preliminary results of this investigation point to the possibility that interactional work performed by laughter may be more widely shared across different cultural and linguistic environments than previously assumed

Laughing together: laughter as a feature of affiliation in French conversation

1997 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yvette Ellis
Keyword(s):  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Collaborative Construction ◽  
Shared Laughter

ABSTRACTIn this paper, I propose to show how the analysis of episodes of laughter in French interaction can be approached from the theoretical perspective of Conversation Analysis. Delicate microanalysis reveals how laughter is very carefully placed by participants during the course of their talk to achieve a range of interactional tasks. Using extracts from my corpus of naturally occurring French conversation, I examine how the collaborative construction of episodes of shared laughter contribute to the achievement of affiliation between co-participants. How the laughter is initiated, where it is placed and who joins in that laughter are shown to be significant to the task of constructing and displaying social relationships between the participants.

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