What’s Your Laughter Doing There? A Taxonomy of the Pragmatic Functions of Laughter

Laughter is a crucial signal for communication and managing interactions. Until now no consensual approach has emerged classifying laughter. We propose new framework laughter analysis classification, based on the pivotal assumption that propositional content. an annotation scheme to classify pragmatic functions of taking into account form, laughable, social, situational, linguistic context. apply taxonomy proposed in multilingual corpus study (French, Mandarin Chinese, English), involving variety situational contexts. Our results give rise novel generalizations about range meanings exhibits, placement how arousal relate have tested refuted validity commonly accepted directly follows its laughable. In concluding section, we discuss implications our work spoken dialogue systems. stress integration systems not only emotional affective computing aspects, but also aspects related natural language understanding reasoning. formulate emergent computational challenges incorporating