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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... sounds. In 2001 I gave a talk on that subject at the Georgetown University Roundtable on Languages and Linguistics (Chafe, 2003a). There I met Elisa Everts, who may not realize that she was partly responsible for my getting back in ...
... sounds. In 2001 I gave a talk on that subject at the Georgetown University Roundtable on Languages and Linguistics (Chafe, 2003a). There I met Elisa Everts, who may not realize that she was partly responsible for my getting back in ...
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... Sound files of the examples in Chapters 2, 3, and 4 can be accessed through the internet at www.1inguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/chafe. CHAPTER 1 Introduction Some years ago, when this book was Symbols used in transcribing laughter.
... Sound files of the examples in Chapters 2, 3, and 4 can be accessed through the internet at www.1inguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/chafe. CHAPTER 1 Introduction Some years ago, when this book was Symbols used in transcribing laughter.
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... sound. They also found that the vowel sounds associated with laughter are usually located in what linguists call the mid-central area, with the tongue in a relatively relaxed, neutral position. In other words, they found little evidence ...
... sound. They also found that the vowel sounds associated with laughter are usually located in what linguists call the mid-central area, with the tongue in a relatively relaxed, neutral position. In other words, they found little evidence ...
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... sound that bears some resemblance to laughter, an observation that led Provine to conclusions that extended not only to the origin of language but even to human awareness of the self. Laughter evolved from the labored breathing of ...
... sound that bears some resemblance to laughter, an observation that led Provine to conclusions that extended not only to the origin of language but even to human awareness of the self. Laughter evolved from the labored breathing of ...
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... sound excerpts accompanied by careful transcripts. There were 23 hours of speech altogether, the average length of an excerpt being about 23 minutes, though there was a range from ten minutes to half an hour. Most of those 23 hours, of ...
... sound excerpts accompanied by careful transcripts. There were 23 hours of speech altogether, the average length of an excerpt being about 23 minutes, though there was a range from ten minutes to half an hour. Most of those 23 hours, of ...
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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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