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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... word for this feeling, no word like joy or sadness or fear or anger. Ruch (1993) suggested the word exhilaration but, as discussed in Chapter 6, that word covers only part of a complex feeling whose totality embraces more than euphoria ...
... word for this feeling, no word like joy or sadness or fear or anger. Ruch (1993) suggested the word exhilaration but, as discussed in Chapter 6, that word covers only part of a complex feeling whose totality embraces more than euphoria ...
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... words, they found little evidence to support the notion that laughs typically sound like “ho ho ho” or “hee hee hee.” They were also interested in whether and how the sound ofa laugh might provide a basis for distinguishing the gender ...
... words, they found little evidence to support the notion that laughs typically sound like “ho ho ho” or “hee hee hee.” They were also interested in whether and how the sound ofa laugh might provide a basis for distinguishing the gender ...
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... words, as is hardly surprising, the circumstances under which language is used have considerable effect on the amount of laughter accompanying it. Potentially more interesting was the distribution of laughter across individuals. During ...
... words, as is hardly surprising, the circumstances under which language is used have considerable effect on the amount of laughter accompanying it. Potentially more interesting was the distribution of laughter across individuals. During ...
Síða 12
... word is telling. It can be a synonym for “humorous,” but it means just as often that something falls outside our ... words. 12 The Importance of Not Being Earnest.
... word is telling. It can be a synonym for “humorous,” but it means just as often that something falls outside our ... words. 12 The Importance of Not Being Earnest.
Síða 13
... words humorous. Chapters 9 and 10 extend that device to preplanned ways of accomplishing the same goal, first in oral traditions and then in writing. Summary To summarize, the feeling of nonseriousness, often but not always expressed ...
... words humorous. Chapters 9 and 10 extend that device to preplanned ways of accomplishing the same goal, first in oral traditions and then in writing. Summary To summarize, the feeling of nonseriousness, often but not always expressed ...
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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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