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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... fold” (Provine,. 2000;47). Provine went further and presented some far-reaching conclusions regarding the place of laughter in human evolution. Within that vast and challenging time frame he found importance in the vocal and facial ...
... fold” (Provine,. 2000;47). Provine went further and presented some far-reaching conclusions regarding the place of laughter in human evolution. Within that vast and challenging time frame he found importance in the vocal and facial ...
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... vocal organs: the lungs, larynx, tongue, lips, and sometimes the nose. And, like the sounds of speech, laughter ... folds Trach The essential ingredients of laughter.
... vocal organs: the lungs, larynx, tongue, lips, and sometimes the nose. And, like the sounds of speech, laughter ... folds Trach The essential ingredients of laughter.
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... folds Trach ea Figure 2.1 The vocal tract. From Clark 81 Yallop (1990: 13) (by permission from Blackwell Publishing) which air is expelled from the lungs to exit finally through the mouth. Especially important in laughter are the lungs ...
... folds Trach ea Figure 2.1 The vocal tract. From Clark 81 Yallop (1990: 13) (by permission from Blackwell Publishing) which air is expelled from the lungs to exit finally through the mouth. Especially important in laughter are the lungs ...
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... vocal folds within the larynx are set to vibrating, producing a buzzing sound called voicing. In speech, voicing is what distinguishes a. Chapter 2. The essential ingredients oflaughter 19.
... vocal folds within the larynx are set to vibrating, producing a buzzing sound called voicing. In speech, voicing is what distinguishes a. Chapter 2. The essential ingredients oflaughter 19.
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... vocal folds are able to vibrate at a wide range of diflerent frequencies, thus producing the variations in pitch that are crucial to the melody of speech (e.g., Wennerstrom, 2001). Laugh pulses vary in pitch too, and the F0 display at ...
... vocal folds are able to vibrate at a wide range of diflerent frequencies, thus producing the variations in pitch that are crucial to the melody of speech (e.g., Wennerstrom, 2001). Laugh pulses vary in pitch too, and the F0 display at ...
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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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