Lower, Slower, Louder: Vocal Cues of Sarcasm

By Patricia Rockwell. 2000

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Literature and Literary Theory, Philosophy

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Towards Multimodal Sarcasm Detection (An _Obviously_ Perfect Paper) (2019, methodology): “To enable the exploration of multimodal sarcasm detection, we introduce a new dataset (MUStARD) consisting of short videos manually annotated for their sarcasm property.”
Prosodic Contrasts in Ironic Speech (2010, background): “Slower speech in sarcasm has been reported before with actors, and has been described as one aspect of the presumed ironic tone of voice (e.g., Anolli et al., 2000; Cutler, 1974; Rockwell, 2000).”
Recognizing Verbal Irony in Spontaneous Speech (2002, methodology): “Each trial went as follows: (a) Participants read the target and the two possible contexts, (b) they played the target on a cassette tape, (c) they stopped the tape, and (d) they chose which context they thought the target originated from.”
Sarcasm, Pretense, and The Semantics/ Pragmatics Distinction ∗ (2012, background): “This might be represented in surface form by an intonational contour involving heavy stress, slow rate, and nasalization (Haiman 1998, Rockwell 2000).”
Are There Necessary Conditions for Inducing a Sense of Sarcastic Irony? (2012, background): “With sarcasm, this would include the variables identified here, but could, of course, include other variables such as tone of voice (e.g., Rockwell, 2000), facial expression, discourse markers, humor, or the use of emoticons online.”
Sarcasm Detection on Twitter: A Behavioral Modeling Approach (2015, background): “While low pitch, high intensity and a slow tempo [30] are vocal indicators of sarcasm, users attempting to express sar-casm in writing are devoid of such devices.”
Analog acoustic expression in speech communication (2006, background): “…internal state (e.g., emotion, Banse & Scherer, 1996; Cosmides, 1983; Scherer, Ladd, & Silverman, 1984; or attitude, Bryant & Fox Tree, 2002; Rockwell, 2000), intended syntactic structure (e.g., Beach, 1991; Carlson, Clifton, & Frazier, 2001; Ferreira, 1993; Snedeker & Trueswell, 2003;…”