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Verbal-Gestural Behavior in Oral Narrative: Humor from a Gender Perspective
- Authors: Tomskaya M.V.1
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Affiliations:
- Moscow State Linguistic University
- Issue: No 6(887) (2024)
- Pages: 106-112
- Section: Linguistics
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/2542-2197/article/view/303245
- ID: 303245
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Abstract
The article discusses the verbal-gestural behavior of speakers in an oral spontaneous narrative as well as the gender aspect of humor. As a result of the empirical analysis, some tendencies were revealed in the gestures of men and women when generating a humor statement, in particular, there was a quantitative predominance in the use of representing gestures, as well as a more frequent use of humor by men in an oral spontaneous narrative.
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Maria Viktorovna Tomskaya
Moscow State Linguistic University
Author for correspondence.
Email: maria.tomskaya@mail.ru
PhD (Philology), Associate Professor, Head of the Gender Laboratory of the Center for Socio-Cognitive Discourse Studies, Associate Professor at the Department of Linguistics and Professional Communication in Law
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