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 18
... intensity, pools the total energy at each point. It relates to what we perceive as loudness, though less than fully directly because of the way sounds are processed by our ears and brains. The relation between physical sound and the way ...
... intensity, pools the total energy at each point. It relates to what we perceive as loudness, though less than fully directly because of the way sounds are processed by our ears and brains. The relation between physical sound and the way ...
Síða 19
... intensity graph it can be seen that the pulses decreased slightly in intensity from the fourth exhalation to the end, a mild decrescendo. lust visible 333 milliseconds after the twelfth pulse and before the inhalation was a weak ...
... intensity graph it can be seen that the pulses decreased slightly in intensity from the fourth exhalation to the end, a mild decrescendo. lust visible 333 milliseconds after the twelfth pulse and before the inhalation was a weak ...
Síða 20
... intensity display at the bottom of Figure 2.3 shows that the highest energy of the pulse was close to the onset of the voicing, with energy declining rapidly as the force behind the pulse relaxed, with the voicing dissipated by the end ...
... intensity display at the bottom of Figure 2.3 shows that the highest energy of the pulse was close to the onset of the voicing, with energy declining rapidly as the force behind the pulse relaxed, with the voicing dissipated by the end ...
Síða 25
... intensities of the cough, the laugh pulse, and the inhalation are evident in the middle display. At the opposite extreme, Figure 3 .3 shows waveform and intensity for a sequence that contained as many as twenty-six exhalations ...
... intensities of the cough, the laugh pulse, and the inhalation are evident in the middle display. At the opposite extreme, Figure 3 .3 shows waveform and intensity for a sequence that contained as many as twenty-six exhalations ...
Síða 26
... intensity but a rise in pitch after the first two, visible in the bottom display. During the five voiced pulses the spectrogram shows considerable energy in the area of approximately 7,000 Hertz, and in fact many laugh pulses. H. lilo ...
... intensity but a rise in pitch after the first two, visible in the bottom display. During the five voiced pulses the spectrogram shows considerable energy in the area of approximately 7,000 Hertz, and in fact many laugh pulses. H. lilo ...
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The Importance of Not Being Earnest: The Feeling Behind Laughter and Humor Wallace L. Chafe Takmarkað sýnishorn - 2007 |
The Importance of Not Being Earnest: The Feeling Behind Laughter and Humor Wallace Chafe Engin sýnishorn í boði - 2007 |
The Importance of Not Being Earnest: The Feeling Behind Laughter and Humor Wallace L. Chafe Engin sýnishorn í boði - 2007 |
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