Autore	Chafe Wallace L
Edizione	[Reprint 2013]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	The Hague : , : Mouton, , 1976
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (100 p.)
Collana	Trends in linguistics
Soggetto topico	Caddoan languages Iroquoian languages Siouan languages
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	3-11-080466-2
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- THE CURRENT STATE OF RESEARCH -- REMOTE RELATIONSHIPS -- A BRIEF LOOK AT THE CADDO LANGUAGE -- REFERENCES -- ADDENDA
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910453287003321

Autore	Chafe Wallace L
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., c2007
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (182 p.)
Disciplina	809.7
Collana	Consciousness & emotion book series
Soggetto topico	Wit and humor - Psychological aspects Laughter - Psychological aspects
ISBN	1-282-15509-1 9786612155093 90-272-9297-3
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910782048803321

Autore	Chafe Wallace L
Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., c2007
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (182 p.)
Disciplina	809.7
Collana	Consciousness & emotion book series
Soggetto topico	Wit and humor - Psychological aspects Laughter - Psychological aspects
ISBN	9786612155093 9781282155091 1282155091 9789027292971 9027292973
Classificazione	EC 3930
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	The 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. Spencer -- Freud -- Schopenhauer -- Morreall -- Koestler -- Raskin and Attardo -- The pragmatics of laughter and humor -- Coda -- References -- Index -- The Consciousness & -- Emotion Book Series.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910965244703321