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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... Shevrin University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI Lynn Stephens University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL Kathleen Wider University of Michigan, Dearborn, MI Wallace Chafe CHAPTER 9 Planned humor in oral traditions Iokes 99 The Editorial page.
... Shevrin University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI Lynn Stephens University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL Kathleen Wider University of Michigan, Dearborn, MI Wallace Chafe CHAPTER 9 Planned humor in oral traditions Iokes 99 The Editorial page.
Síða vii
... CHAPTER 1 Introduction Studies of laughter 4 The present data 7 Seriousness and nonseriousness 8 Pseudo-plausibility 9 Fiction and nonfiction 10 Nonseriousness as a safety valve 11 Summary 13 PART ONE How we laugh CHAP T ER 2 The ...
... CHAPTER 1 Introduction Studies of laughter 4 The present data 7 Seriousness and nonseriousness 8 Pseudo-plausibility 9 Fiction and nonfiction 10 Nonseriousness as a safety valve 11 Summary 13 PART ONE How we laugh CHAP T ER 2 The ...
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The feeling behind laughter and humor Wallace Chafe. CHAPTER 9 Planned humor in oral traditions Iokes 99 The time course ofa joke 100 Eye movements 102 The varying effectiveness of jokes 103 Devices for joke enhancement 104 Other forms ...
The feeling behind laughter and humor Wallace Chafe. CHAPTER 9 Planned humor in oral traditions Iokes 99 The time course ofa joke 100 Eye movements 102 The varying effectiveness of jokes 103 Devices for joke enhancement 104 Other forms ...
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... Chapter 4 asks how it is possible for people to laugh and speak simultaneously, in spite of the fact that both ... 9 shifts to preplanned humor in oral traditions, focusing first on the structure ofjokes and then on some other varieties of ...
... Chapter 4 asks how it is possible for people to laugh and speak simultaneously, in spite of the fact that both ... 9 shifts to preplanned humor in oral traditions, focusing first on the structure ofjokes and then on some other varieties of ...
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... Chapter 9 below. How pseudo-plausibility, justification, local logic, sense in nonsense, or whatever it may be called is related to what Attardo and Raskin labeled the “logical mechanism” of a joke is discussed below in Chapter 13. It ...
... Chapter 9 below. How pseudo-plausibility, justification, local logic, sense in nonsense, or whatever it may be called is related to what Attardo and Raskin labeled the “logical mechanism” of a joke is discussed below in Chapter 13. It ...
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