The Importance of Not Being Earnest: The Feeling Behind Laughter and HumorJohn Benjamins Publishing, 1. jan. 2007 - 167 síður The thesis of this book is that neither laughter nor humor can be understood apart from the feeling that underlies them. This feeling is a mental state in which people exclude some situation from their knowledge of how the world really is, thereby inhibiting seriousness where seriousness would be counterproductive. Laughter is viewed as an expression of this feeling, and humor as a set of devices designed to trigger it because it is so pleasant and distracting. Beginning with phonetic analyses of laughter, the book examines ways in which the feeling behind the laughter is elicited by both humorous and nonhumorous situations. It discusses properties of this feeling that justify its inclusion in the repertoire of human emotions. Against this background it illustrates the creation of humor in several folklore genres and across several cultures. Finally, it reconciles this understanding with various already familiar ways of explaining humor and laughter. |
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The Feeling Behind Laughter and Humor Wallace L. Chafe. Table of contents Preface Symbols used in transcribing laughter CHAPTER 1 Introduction Studies of laughter 4 The present data 7 Seriousness and nonseriousness 8 Pseudo ...
The Feeling Behind Laughter and Humor Wallace L. Chafe. Table of contents Preface Symbols used in transcribing laughter CHAPTER 1 Introduction Studies of laughter 4 The present data 7 Seriousness and nonseriousness 8 Pseudo ...
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... laughter 85 CHAPTER 8 Unplanned humor Building humor on humor 90 Humor or not humor ? 94 Ridicule 94 Opportunistic triggering of humor 96 61 73 133 89 CHAPTER 9 Planned humor in oral traditions Jokes 99 The VIII The Importance of Not ...
... laughter 85 CHAPTER 8 Unplanned humor Building humor on humor 90 Humor or not humor ? 94 Ridicule 94 Opportunistic triggering of humor 96 61 73 133 89 CHAPTER 9 Planned humor in oral traditions Jokes 99 The VIII The Importance of Not ...
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PART TWO Why we laugh | 6 |
CHAPTER | 9 |
CHAPTER 2 | 17 |
CHAPTER 4 | 30 |
CHAPTER 5 | 43 |
The feeling of nonseriousness | 61 |
CHAPTER 8 | 89 |
Planned humor in oral traditions | 99 |
CHAPTER 10 | 117 |
CHAPTER 11 | 127 |
CHAPTER 12 | 137 |
CHAPTER 14 | 157 |
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The Importance of Not Being Earnest: The feeling behind laughter and humor Wallace Chafe Takmarkað sýnishorn - 2007 |
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