ABSTRACT

We tested sarcasm production and identification across original communicators in a spontaneously produced conversational setting, including testing the role of synchronous movement on sarcasm production and identification. Before communicating, stranger dyads participated in either a synchronous or nonsynchronous movement task. They then completed a task designed to elicit sarcasm, although no instruction to produce sarcastic content was provided. After communicating, participants immediately reviewed their conversations and identified their own and their addressees’ sarcastic utterances. No definition of sarcasm was provided. We found that participants who had moved synchronously identified more sarcasm in their own productions. They did not identify more sarcasm in their partner’s productions however. We also discovered that most identifications of sarcasm did not align across conversational participants, and neither did those of outside observers. People reported sarcasm in their addressees commensurate with the sarcasm they produced, rather than the sarcasm that their addressees self-reported. There were numerous cases of sarchasm, where producers’ intended sarcasm was not identified by addressees.

摘要

我们在自发产生的对话环境中跨原始沟通者测试了嘲讽的产生和识别，包括测试了同步运动在嘲讽的产生和识别中的作用。在交流之前，陌生双胞胎参加了同步或非同步运动任务。然后，他们完成了旨在引起讽刺的任务，尽管没有提供产生讽刺内容的指示。交流后，与会人员立即回顾了他们的对话并确定了自己和收件人的讽刺话语。没有提供讽刺的定义。我们发现，同步移动的参与者在自己的作品中发现了更多的讽刺。他们没有在伴侣的作品中发现更多的讽刺。我们还发现，大多数嘲讽的识别在对话参与者之间并不一致，外部观察者也没有。人们在收件人中报告的讽刺与其所产生的讽刺相称，而不是收件人自我报告的讽刺。有很多情况sarchasm，收件人未识别出生产者的讽刺意味。