Abstract The present article is part of a larger cross-cultural research project on speaker-hearer smiling behavior in humorous and non-humorous conversations in American English and French. The American corpus consists of eight computer-mediated interactions between English native speakers, and the French one consists of four face-to-face interactions between French native speakers. The goal of the study is twofold: first, we analyze the link between smiling and humor, focusing on the degree of synchronicity of smiling and the intensity of smiling during humorous and non-humorous segments; second, we investigate the various targets mobilized in conversational humor. The results obtained comparing the two data-sets show a correlation between the presence of humor, an increased smiling intensity, and an increase in the synchronized smiling behaviors displayed by participants. However, the two corpora also differ in terms of the displayed smiling behaviors: French participants display more non-synchronic smiling when humor is absent and more synchronic smiling when humor is present. Regarding the various targets of humor (Speaker, Recipient, Other person, Situation, Speaker+Recipient), while their distribution is different – it is more evenly distributed in the French data – the way in which these are mobilized in order to become humorous is quite similar.

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在幽默中微笑是如此明显吗？美国英语和法语互动中幽默序列中微笑行为的跨文化比较

摘要本文是一个较大的跨文化研究项目的一部分，该项目涉及在美式英语和法语中幽默和非幽默对话中说话者-听者的微笑行为。美国语料库由英语为母语的人之间的八种计算机介导的交互组成，而法语的则由法语为母语的人之间的四种面对面的交互组成。研究的目的是双重的：首先，我们分析微笑与幽默之间的联系，重点是幽默和非幽默片段中微笑的同步程度和微笑的强度。其次，我们研究了在对话幽默中调动的各种目标。比较这两个数据集而获得的结果表明，幽默感，微笑强度增加，以及参与者显示的同步微笑行为的增加。但是，这两个语料库在显示的微笑行为方面也有所不同：法国参与者在缺乏幽默感时表现出更多的非同步微笑，而在存在幽默感时表现出更多的同步微笑。关于幽默的各种目标（说话者，接收者，其他人，处境，说话者+接收者），尽管它们的分布不同（在法语数据中分布更均匀），但是为了调动幽默而动员这些目标的方式是非常相似。