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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Síða xii
... fact that there are still no academic departments devoted specifically to that subject. I am also grateful to Béatrice Priego-Valverde for her visit to Santa Barbara in early 2005, which was more than a little helpful to me and I hope ...
... fact that there are still no academic departments devoted specifically to that subject. I am also grateful to Béatrice Priego-Valverde for her visit to Santa Barbara in early 2005, which was more than a little helpful to me and I hope ...
Síða 2
... fact that laughter is the focus of the next four chapters. Laughter deserves that much attention because it is an important clue to the presence of the feeling. The feeling itself is a subjective, internal experience that cannot be ...
... fact that laughter is the focus of the next four chapters. Laughter deserves that much attention because it is an important clue to the presence of the feeling. The feeling itself is a subjective, internal experience that cannot be ...
Síða 3
... fact that both activities exploit the same parts of the body, the so-called vocal tract. Chapter 5 then looks beyond the vocal tract to some other things that happen in our bodies as we laugh. With these understandings of laughter as ...
... fact that both activities exploit the same parts of the body, the so-called vocal tract. Chapter 5 then looks beyond the vocal tract to some other things that happen in our bodies as we laugh. With these understandings of laughter as ...
Síða 8
... fact that ofthe ten selections with the most laughter, all were conversations. Of the ten with the least laughter only two were conversations, and one of those involved a friend who was dying while the other dealt with problems at work ...
... fact that ofthe ten selections with the most laughter, all were conversations. Of the ten with the least laughter only two were conversations, and one of those involved a friend who was dying while the other dealt with problems at work ...
Síða 12
... fact, be every bit as enjoyable as feelings associated with art or sex or drugs. Chapter 7, as noted above, discusses cases in which the feeling arose circumstantially or accidentally without the intention of producing pleasure, but ...
... fact, be every bit as enjoyable as feelings associated with art or sex or drugs. Chapter 7, as noted above, discusses cases in which the feeling arose circumstantially or accidentally without the intention of producing pleasure, but ...
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The Importance of Not Being Earnest: The Feeling Behind Laughter and Humor Wallace L. Chafe Takmarkað sýnishorn - 2007 |
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The Importance of Not Being Earnest: The Feeling Behind Laughter and Humor Wallace L. Chafe Engin sýnishorn í boði - 2007 |
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