%0 Conference Paper %F Oral %T Multi-layered analysis of laughter %+ Centre de Linguistique Inter-langues, de Lexicologie, de Linguistique Anglaise et de Corpus (CLILLAC-ARP (EA_3967)) %+ Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle (LLF UMR7110) %+ LabEx Empirical Foundations of Linguistics (LabEx EFL) %A Mazzocconi, Chiara %A Tian, Ye %A Ginzburg, Jonathan %< avec comité de lecture %3 Proceedings of the 20th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue %B 20th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue %C New Brunswick, United States %S Proceedings of the 20th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue %8 2016-07-16 %D 2016 %Z Cognitive scienceConference papers %X This paper presents a multi-layered classification of laughter in French and Chinese dialogues (from the DUEL corpus). Analysis related to the form, the semantic meaning and the function of laughter and its context provides a detailed study of the range of uses of laughter and their distributions. A similar distribution was observed in most of the data collected for French and Chi-nese. We ground our classification in a formal semantic and pragmatic analysis. We propose that most functions of laughter can be analyzed by positing a unified meaning with two dimensions, which when aligned with rich contextual reasoning , yields a wide range of functions. However, we also argue that a proper treatment of laughter involves a significant conceptual modification of information state account of dialogue to incorporate emotive aspects of interaction. %G English %2 https://u-paris.hal.science/hal-01371159/document %2 https://u-paris.hal.science/hal-01371159/file/multi-layered-analysis-5.pdf %L hal-01371159 %U https://u-paris.hal.science/hal-01371159 %~ UNIV-PARIS5 %~ UNIV-PARIS7 %~ UNIV-PARIS13 %~ CNRS %~ UNIV-PARIS3 %~ LLF %~ INALCO %~ USPC %~ CLILLAC-ARP %~ SORBONNE-PARIS-NORD %~ UNIV-PARIS %~ UP-SOCIETES-HUMANITES %~ ANR