The Importance of Not Being Earnest: The feeling behind laughter and humorJohn Benjamins Publishing, 1. feb. 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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... find calm. Lorenzo da Ponte, final chorus from Mozart's Cosi fan Tutte And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'tis that I may not weep; George Gordon Byron, Don Iuan, Canto 4, Stanza 4 Table of contents Preface Symbols used in transcribing ...
... find calm. Lorenzo da Ponte, final chorus from Mozart's Cosi fan Tutte And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'tis that I may not weep; George Gordon Byron, Don Iuan, Canto 4, Stanza 4 Table of contents Preface Symbols used in transcribing ...
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... find a natural fit. These imagined larger systems are often called “theories.” Understanding, then, is advanced by a productive interplay between observing and imagining. To speak of “the scientific method” as if it were some ...
... find a natural fit. These imagined larger systems are often called “theories.” Understanding, then, is advanced by a productive interplay between observing and imagining. To speak of “the scientific method” as if it were some ...
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... find the descriptions of laughter in the next four chapters more meaningful if the laughter can be heard, as is possible through the internet address on page xiii. As always with research involving the human psyche, there is a ...
... find the descriptions of laughter in the next four chapters more meaningful if the laughter can be heard, as is possible through the internet address on page xiii. As always with research involving the human psyche, there is a ...
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