1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910701819503321

Titolo

Vietnam [[electronic resource] /] / prepared and released by American Embassy Hanoi and U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of International Labor Affairs

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : U.S. Dept. of Labor, Bureau of International Labor Affairs, [2002]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 volumes)

Collana

Foreign labor trends ; ; FLT

Soggetti

Labor supply - Vietnam

Labor - Vietnam

Employee rights - Vietnam

Working class - Vietnam

Labor unions - Vietnam

Statistics.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Title from PDF cover (viewed Nov. 11, 2011).



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910952293703321

Autore

Oring Elliott <1945->

Titolo

Engaging humor / / Elliott Oring

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2003

ISBN

1-283-58356-9

9786613896018

0-252-09205-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Disciplina

809.7

Soggetti

Wit and humor - History and criticism

Comic, The

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-202) and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""1. Appropriate Incongruity Redux""; ""2. The Senses of Absurd Humor""; ""3. Joke Thoughts""; ""4. The Humor of Hate""; ""5. Blond Ambitions and Other Signs of the Times""; ""6. Humor and the Suppression of Sentiment""; ""7. The Joke as Gloss""; ""8. Colonizing Humor""; ""9. Sigmund Freud's Jewish Joke Book""; ""10. The Context of Internet Humor""; ""Afterword""; ""Appendix""; ""Notes""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

In Engaging Humor, Elliott Oring asks essential questions concerning humorous expression in contemporary society, examining how humor works, why it is employed, and what its messages might be. This provocative book is filled with examples of jokes and riddles that reveal humor to be a meaningful--even significant--form of expression._x000B_ _x000B_Oring scrutinizes classic Jewish jokes, frontier humor, racist cartoons, blonde jokes, and Internet humor. He provides alternate ways of thinking about humorous expressions by examining their contexts--not just their contents. He also shows how the incongruity and absurdity essential to the production of laughter can serve serious communicative ends._x000B_ _x000B_Engaging Humor examines the thoughts that underlie jokes, the question of racist motivation in ethnic humor, and the use of humor as a commentary on social interaction. The book also explores the relationship between



humor and sentimentality and the role of humor in forging national identity. Engaging Humor demonstrates that when analyzed contextually and comparatively, humorous expressions emerge as communications that are startling, intriguing, and profound.