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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... 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 essential ingredients of laughter CHAP T ER 3 Varieties of laughter CHAP T ER 4 Laughing while speaking ...
... 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 essential ingredients of laughter CHAP T ER 3 Varieties of laughter CHAP T ER 4 Laughing while speaking ...
Síða 9
... pseudo-plausibility” (the dog looked as ifshe were reading the newspaper), while at the same time we know such interpretations to be absurd or incongruous, for they lie outside the range of everything else we know ... Pseudo-plausibility.
... pseudo-plausibility” (the dog looked as ifshe were reading the newspaper), while at the same time we know such interpretations to be absurd or incongruous, for they lie outside the range of everything else we know ... Pseudo-plausibility.
Síða 10
... pseudo-plausibility (Freud, 1960 [1905]). But Norrick went further, suggesting that “the richness of higher-level congruency between the skewed schemas determines the degree of funniness a joke achieves” (Norrick, 1987: 117). The ...
... pseudo-plausibility (Freud, 1960 [1905]). But Norrick went further, suggesting that “the richness of higher-level congruency between the skewed schemas determines the degree of funniness a joke achieves” (Norrick, 1987: 117). The ...
Síða 12
... pseudo-plausible experiences to enter the picture, either by accident or by design. We can consider the case of a lawyer who was talking with her client about a confrontation between that woman and a sexual deviate. The lawyer was ...
... pseudo-plausible experiences to enter the picture, either by accident or by design. We can consider the case of a lawyer who was talking with her client about a confrontation between that woman and a sexual deviate. The lawyer was ...
Síða 13
The feeling behind laughter and humor Wallace Chafe. that is both pseudo-plausible and absurd, or in other words humorous. Chapters 9 and 10 extend that device to preplanned ways of accomplishing the same goal, first in oral traditions ...
The feeling behind laughter and humor Wallace Chafe. that is both pseudo-plausible and absurd, or in other words humorous. Chapters 9 and 10 extend that device to preplanned ways of accomplishing the same goal, first in oral traditions ...
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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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