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. |
From inside the book
Niðurstöður 1 - 5 af 28
Síða 7
... shows how the frequency of laugh pulses was distributed across the 60 excerpts. The contexts with the most laughter included a family gathering (with 32.85 pulses per minute) and a birthday party (with 32.69). 5 2 s ,2” O ...
... shows how the frequency of laugh pulses was distributed across the 60 excerpts. The contexts with the most laughter included a family gathering (with 32.85 pulses per minute) and a birthday party (with 32.69). 5 2 s ,2” O ...
Síða 12
... shows a tacit recognition ofthe relation between nonseriousness and a failure to conform to normal expectations. Chapter 7 illustrates ways in which the feeling of nonseriousness is exploited as a way of mitigating or ameliorating ...
... shows a tacit recognition ofthe relation between nonseriousness and a failure to conform to normal expectations. Chapter 7 illustrates ways in which the feeling of nonseriousness is exploited as a way of mitigating or ameliorating ...
Síða 18
... shows the amount of positive and negative acoustic energy that was present at each point in time. The spectrogram below it shows how energy was distributed across frequencies ranging, in this case, from zero to 10,000 Hertz. Because ...
... shows the amount of positive and negative acoustic energy that was present at each point in time. The spectrogram below it shows how energy was distributed across frequencies ranging, in this case, from zero to 10,000 Hertz. Because ...
Síða 19
... shows the fundamental frequency of periodic sound waves: stretches of sound from which it is possible to extract such a frequency. It relates to what we perceive as pitch, but again somewhat indirectly because of processing that is ...
... shows the fundamental frequency of periodic sound waves: stretches of sound from which it is possible to extract such a frequency. It relates to what we perceive as pitch, but again somewhat indirectly because of processing that is ...
Síða 20
... shows the pitch declining, first gradually and then more steeply, as this laugh proceeded. The first pulse peaked at a frequency of 516 Hertz, which would be quite high for speech, while the twelfth descended to 157 Hertz. Figure 2.3 ...
... shows the pitch declining, first gradually and then more steeply, as this laugh proceeded. The first pulse peaked at a frequency of 516 Hertz, which would be quite high for speech, while the twelfth descended to 157 Hertz. Figure 2.3 ...
Aðrar útgáfur - View all
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 |
Common terms and phrases
abnormal asked associated ation Attardo behavior benefit brain breathing buildup Chapter 9 component conflict conversation creaky voice difficult diflerent elicit laughter elicit the feeling emotion Example 9.1 exhalation experience expressed expulsion of air fact feeling of nonseriousness final finally find first fit five followed funny glottal stops grandmother Hertz human Iames Iamie imagine incongruity initiating pulse intensity interpretation joke kind Koestler kyoka language larynx laugh pulses laugh track laughter and humor limericks linguistic listener lungs Miles milliseconds mitigate Navajo nonhumorous Norrick observations oflaughter ofthe one’s person Pete phrase pitch plausible play pleasure produced pseudo-plausible pseudo-plausible absurdity punchline question recovery inhalation reflection response Salvatore Attardo scenario sequence seriously shows simultaneous situations smiling someone sound Speaker specific spectrogram speech Spock story studies suggested syllable talking things tickling tion tremolo triggered Victor Raskin vocal folds vocal tract voiced inhalation voiceless laugh pulse vowel word