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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... of nonseriousness: when and why people experience it and why it should so often be associated with laughter. Later we can turn to some ofthe ways in which humor succeeds in making us feel this way. Because laughter plays such an ...
... of nonseriousness: when and why people experience it and why it should so often be associated with laughter. Later we can turn to some ofthe ways in which humor succeeds in making us feel this way. Because laughter plays such an ...
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... of laughter and examines some ofthe ways they can be combined, mo dified, and supplemented to yield a wide range of different laughs. Chapter 4 asks how it is possible for people to laugh and speak simultaneously, in spite of the fact ...
... of laughter and examines some ofthe ways they can be combined, mo dified, and supplemented to yield a wide range of different laughs. Chapter 4 asks how it is possible for people to laugh and speak simultaneously, in spite of the fact ...
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... ofthe 20th century. There occur in laughter and more or less in smiling, clonic spasms of the diaphragm in number ... of the most sensitive and. The Importance of Not Being Earnest Studies of laughter.
... ofthe 20th century. There occur in laughter and more or less in smiling, clonic spasms of the diaphragm in number ... of the most sensitive and. The Importance of Not Being Earnest Studies of laughter.
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... of the most sensitive and constant of the psychophysical Signs of moderate delight, although often quite inhibited in ... ofthe laughs, and they came up with a rich set of findings, most though not all ofwhich were in harmony with those ...
... of the most sensitive and constant of the psychophysical Signs of moderate delight, although often quite inhibited in ... ofthe laughs, and they came up with a rich set of findings, most though not all ofwhich were in harmony with those ...
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... ofthe selections contained a great deal oflaughter and some very little. Figure 1.2 shows how the frequency of laugh pulses was distributed across the 60 excerpts. The contexts with the most laughter included a family gathering (with ...
... ofthe selections contained a great deal oflaughter and some very little. Figure 1.2 shows how the frequency of laugh pulses was distributed across the 60 excerpts. The contexts with the most laughter included a family gathering (with ...
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