LEADER 05142nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910965244703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786612155093 010 $a9781282155091 010 $a1282155091 010 $a9789027292971 010 $a9027292973 035 $a(CKB)1000000000521906 035 $a(OCoLC)567976036 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10161058 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000280663 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11207277 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000280663 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10292115 035 $a(PQKB)11783946 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC622680 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL622680 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10161058 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL215509 035 $a(OCoLC)705531254 035 $a(DE-B1597)721182 035 $a(DE-B1597)9789027292971 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000521906 100 $a20061211d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe importance of not being earnest $ethe feeling behind laughter and humor /$fWallace Chafe 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAmsterdam ;$aPhiladelphia $cJ. Benjamins Pub. Co.$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (182 p.) 225 1 $aConsciousness & emotion book series,$x1566-5836 ;$vv. 3 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9789027241528 311 08$a902724152X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe Importance of Not Being Earnest -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Symbols used in transcribing laughter -- Introduction -- Studies of laughter -- The present data -- Seriousness and nonseriousness -- Pseudo-plausibility -- Fiction and nonfiction -- Nonseriousness as a safety valve -- Summary -- part oneHow we laugh -- The essential ingredients of laughter -- Varieties of laughter -- Laughing while speaking -- Beyond the vocal tract -- Smiling -- Internal changes -- The brain -- Humor and health -- part twoWhy we laugh -- The feeling of nonseriousness -- What is an emotion? -- Properties shared among different emotions -- The evolution of the feeling of nonseriousness -- Nonseriousness without humor -- Undesirable situations -- Profanity -- Uncertain choice of language -- Interrupting -- Self-deprecation -- Regret -- Embarrassment -- Criticism -- Things that are disgusting -- Things that are depressing -- Bereavement -- Abnormal situations -- Something anomalous -- Something surprising -- Anthropomorphizing -- Awkwardness -- Coincidence -- Unexpectedness -- Other nonhumorous causes of laughter -- Unplanned humor -- Building humor on humor -- Humor or not humor? -- Ridicule -- Opportunistic triggering of humor -- Planned humor in oral traditions -- Jokes -- The time course of a joke -- Eye movements -- The varying effectiveness of jokes -- Devices for joke enhancement -- Other forms of preplanned oral humor -- Riddles -- Knock knock jokes -- Limericks -- Planned humor in writing -- Film -- Artificially propagated nonseriousness -- Literary satire -- Humor in other cultures -- Navajo humor -- Chinese humor -- Iroquois humor -- Japanese humor -- part threePulling things together -- Recapitulation -- Reconciliation with other studies -- Plato -- Hobbes -- Ludovici -- Gruner -- Bergson. 327 $aSpencer -- Freud -- Schopenhauer -- Morreall -- Koestler -- Raskin and Attardo -- The pragmatics of laughter and humor -- Coda -- References -- Index -- The Consciousness & -- Emotion Book Series. 330 $aThe thesis of this book is that neither laughter nor humor can be understood apart from the feeling that underlies them. This feeling is a mental state in which people exclude some situation from their knowledge of how the world really is, thereby inhibiting seriousness where seriousness would be counterproductive. Laughter is viewed as an expression of this feeling, and humor as a set of devices designed to trigger it because it is so pleasant and distracting. Beginning with phonetic analyses of laughter, the book examines ways in which the feeling behind the laughter is elicited by both humorous and nonhumorous situations. It discusses properties of this feeling that justify its inclusion in the repertoire of human emotions. Against this background it illustrates the creation of humor in several folklore genres and across several cultures. Finally, it reconciles this understanding with various already familiar ways of explaining humor and laughter. 410 0$aConsciousness & emotion book series ;$vv. 3. 606 $aWit and humor$xPsychological aspects 606 $aLaughter$xPsychological aspects 615 0$aWit and humor$xPsychological aspects. 615 0$aLaughter$xPsychological aspects. 676 $a809.7 686 $aEC 3930$qSEPA$2rvk 700 $aChafe$b Wallace L$045428 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910965244703321 996 $aThe importance of not being earnest$94344692 997 $aUNINA