La comicità nel parlato spontaneo tedesco: oggetti semantici e mezzi linguistici che producono la risata

Verbal humour presents a wide spectrum of linguistic, para-linguistic and co-textual elements. Linguistic elements are particularly important, since the speaker codify the semantic objects through the language. Semantic objects originate from higher cognitive processes and are then integrated within the speech flow through peculiar linguistic techniques. Starting from the audible laugh, interpreted as humour marker produced by the hearer, the following study highlights four different semantic objects (incongruity, exaggeration, alteration and the unexpected) and the morpho-syntactic and lexical features used by the speakers to codify them into the spoken language. The corpus of this investigation is composed of one hundred and five transcriptions of German spoken language conversations.