On the order of processing of humorous tweets with visual and verbal elements

Autor: Nabiha El Khatib, Phillip Hamrick, María Simarro Vázquez, Salvatore Attardo
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Pragmatics, Humour and the Internet. 4:150-175
ISSN: 2542-386X
2542-3851
DOI: 10.1075/ip.00060.sim
Popis: In this paper we examine the order of processing of multimodal tweets (text + image). Using an eye tracker, we collected a sample of 36 participants reading 25 humorous tweets. Our conclusions show that the processing of multimodal humorous tweets is in line with the processing of other multimodal texts. The participants were significantly more likely to start from the image, followed by the caption. Other elements, such as the tweet’s “author” (the user name) or elements outside the tweet’s frame, attracted significantly less and later attention. The participants spent significantly more time gazing at the caption, before moving on to another area. The longer the participants spent looking at the tweet, the less predictable their gaze direction became.
Databáze: OpenAIRE