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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... one's own speech. He also found that women laughed more than men, while men did more to provoke laughter, and that laughter occurred more often in social settings than in solitary environments. Perhaps his most important finding was ...
... one's own speech. He also found that women laughed more than men, while men did more to provoke laughter, and that laughter occurred more often in social settings than in solitary environments. Perhaps his most important finding was ...
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... one's repertoire of knowledge about the way the world is. This feeling is physically disabling because of its interference with the breathing mechanism and other aspects of its physiology, and psychologically disabling because of its ...
... one's repertoire of knowledge about the way the world is. This feeling is physically disabling because of its interference with the breathing mechanism and other aspects of its physiology, and psychologically disabling because of its ...
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... one's purposes. Various additions to the symbols just shown are introduced as called for in the following chapters. They are listed together on page xiii. A brief word on terminology is in order. What are here termed laugh “pulses” are ...
... one's purposes. Various additions to the symbols just shown are introduced as called for in the following chapters. They are listed together on page xiii. A brief word on terminology is in order. What are here termed laugh “pulses” are ...
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