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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... question, can shed useful light on it. For now, however, it is important to keep in mind that the primary concern here is not humor itself, but a feeling that can be elicited by both humorous and nonhumorous events and situations ...
... question, can shed useful light on it. For now, however, it is important to keep in mind that the primary concern here is not humor itself, but a feeling that can be elicited by both humorous and nonhumorous events and situations ...
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... questions, it should be noted, are as relevant to speech as they are to laughter. Taking a broader view, Bachorowski and her colleagues suggested that laughter functions to elicit emotional responses in those who hear it, and that those ...
... questions, it should be noted, are as relevant to speech as they are to laughter. Taking a broader view, Bachorowski and her colleagues suggested that laughter functions to elicit emotional responses in those who hear it, and that those ...
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... and the possibility that laughter evolved from play are all questions worth pursuing, and they are revisited in Chapter 7. The present data The observations described in this book were. The Importance of Not Being Earnest.
... and the possibility that laughter evolved from play are all questions worth pursuing, and they are revisited in Chapter 7. The present data The observations described in this book were. The Importance of Not Being Earnest.
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... questions raised by the suggestion that laughter expresses the feeling of nonseriousness. One might well ask, for example, what it means to be serious. The question is far from trivial, and the answer is not obvious. Beyond that, why ...
... questions raised by the suggestion that laughter expresses the feeling of nonseriousness. One might well ask, for example, what it means to be serious. The question is far from trivial, and the answer is not obvious. Beyond that, why ...
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... question why things are the way they are. Directing that curiosity at human thoughts and feelings is not an exercise in arid pedantry, but an enterprise that has the potential to enrich, not to stifle, its object, allowing us to ...
... question why things are the way they are. Directing that curiosity at human thoughts and feelings is not an exercise in arid pedantry, but an enterprise that has the potential to enrich, not to stifle, its object, allowing us to ...
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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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