中台科技大學
地點: 應用外語系 (2228;天機大樓
講題： The Pragmatics of Humor
In this lecture the arguments pro and
con the view of humor as a violation of the Principle of
Cooperation (Paul Grice) are examined. The standard arguments against
the violation view are examined and rejected. The possibility of the existence
of different cooperative principles, including one for humor, is also rejected.
本演說探討違反保羅•葛萊斯提出的「合作原則」的幽默看法之贊成及反對論點。和違背觀點相牴觸的一般論證將受到審視與駁回。不同合作原則存在的可能性，包括幽默合作原則，也將否決。
靜宜大學
地點: 英語系
講題： The Prosody of Humor
In this paper
I am interested in particular on the relationship between the salient
structural parts of the humorous narratives and their prosodic markers, if any.
There exists a folk-theory of the prosody of joke delivery (performance),
primarily codified in practical manuals for would-be stand up comedians and
other humorous performers. This folk theory has had some influence on the few
academic treatments of the subject. The findings in Pickering and Attardo (forth.) are therefore particularly significant
insofar as they seem to contradict most of the folk theory of joke performance,
and can be summed up as follows:
There is no significant pause before the punch line of jokes. Punch lines are
uttered with significantly lower volume peaks than the introductory text of the
joke and in fact even at a significantly lower volume than the text immediately
preceding the punch line. Punch lines are uttered with a speech rate that is
significantly slower than the speech rate in the body of the narrative. Punch
lines have significantly lower pitch peaks than the rest of the joke text. No
significant differences were found between the prepared jokes and the
improvised jokes. About 50% of jokes were performed with some sort of “humor”
marker within or near the punch line (laughter pulses, smiling voice, smiles,
etc.).
We conclude that contrary to the folk theory of humor performance and to the
previous treatments of joke performance, punch lines are not prosodically salient and are not signaled by increased
pauses. From a prosodic point of view, punch lines are simply the final part of
the text and therefore are performed at a lower volume and pitch, as predicted
by pitch declination. However, the humorous nature of the text is cued by a
number of markers (smiling, smiling voice, laughter pulses) which help “frame”
the narrative as humorous, but do not signal effectively the punch line.
屏東美和技術學院 
地點: 應用外語系
講題：綜觀幽默語言學
An Overview of the Linguistics of Humor
In this lecture a brief overview of the various fields of the
linguistics of humor will be presented. We will review recent scholarship on
the linguistics and sociolinguistics of humor, seeking to highlight connections
and interplay with other areas of study (such as psycholinguistics, sociology,
etc.).
此場演說簡單呈現各領域的幽默語言學。我們將重新探討最近關於幽默語言學與幽默社會語言學的學術成就，試圖著重在與其他相關領域研究的關聯性和相互作用性(例如：心理語言學、社會學等等)。
高雄第一科技大學
地點: 應用英語系( 外語學院三樓會議廳--D305)
講題： 分析較長的幽默文本
Analyzing Longer Humorous Texts
This lecture
is a seminar on the analysis of humorous texts of all kinds (short stories,
poems, conversations, film, etc.) using the tools of the GTVH. Emphasis is put
on practical techniques and applications, such as how to identify the script
oppositions and how to classify them, how to analyze the data, and how to
present them.
這場演說以語言幽默基本理論(General Theory of Verbal Humor)來分析各類幽默文本(短篇故事、詩、對話、電影等等)，強調其實用技巧與實際應用，例如：如何鑑別與分類文本的對比、如何分析資料及如何呈現成果
國立嘉義大學
地點：民雄校區大學館 (演講廳); 、蘭潭校區綜合教學大樓地下室演講廳(A32-004視訊演講廳)
講題：Metaphors and humor
The central issue of any account of humorous metaphors is to
answer the question of why some metaphors are humorous and some are not. Most
accounts of humorous metaphors rely on variants of the “distance theory” (Fonagy 1982, Morrissey 1989, Pollio
1996) which essentially consists in postulating a threshold of “semantic
distance” beyond which the linkage between the two domains in the metaphorical
construal becomes “stretched” and is therefore perceived as humorous. The most
obvious problem for the distance theory is that no precise (or even
approximate) quantification of the threshold exists. In this paper I will
present an alternative (but not necessarily antagonistic) approach grounded in
the most recent developments of humor research within cognitive linguistics and
the incongruity/resolution theory of humor.
The first step of the analysis is to problematize
the very concept of humorous metaphor. Analysis of a small corpus of “humorous
metaphors” collected from web pages and press reports shows that “humorous
metaphors” is an umbrella term covering at least three completely different
phenomena: metaphors that are funny in and of themselves metaphors that
describe something that is inherently funny (“hog on ice”) failed metaphors
(metaphors that are involuntarily funny, or that are produced to pretend to be
involuntarily funny) Among the “failed metaphors” we can further distinguish
several categories: un-metaphors (things that are exactly alike or completely
different) mixed metaphors overdone metaphors.
台灣師大
地點: 教育心理與輔導學系(教育大樓500室)
講題：綜觀幽默語言學
An Overview of the Linguistics of Humor
In this
lecture a brief overview of the various fields of the linguistics of humor will
be presented. We will review recent scholarship on the linguistics and
sociolinguistics of humor, seeking to highlight connections and interplay with
other areas of study (such as psycholinguistics, sociology, etc.).
此場演說簡單呈現各領域的幽默語言學。我們將重新探討最近關於幽默語言學與幽默社會語言學的學術成就，試圖著重在與其他相關領域研究的關聯性和相互作用性(例如：心理語言學、社會學等等)。