The importance of not being earnest : the feeling behind laughter and humor / / Wallace Chafe
| The importance of not being earnest : the feeling behind laughter and humor / / Wallace Chafe |
| 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. |
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Chafe Wallace L
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| Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., c2007 | ||
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The language of comic narratives [[electronic resource] ] : humor construction in short stories / / by Isabel Ermida
| The language of comic narratives [[electronic resource] ] : humor construction in short stories / / by Isabel Ermida |
| Autore | Ermida Isabel <1968-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, c2008 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (274 p.) |
| Disciplina | 808.3/1 |
| Collana | Humor research |
| Soggetto topico |
Humor in literature
Short story - Authorship |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-281-99353-0
9786611993535 3-11-020833-4 |
| Classificazione | EC 3930 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of tables and figures -- Foreword -- Chapter 1. The concept of humor: history, scope and issues -- Chapter 2. Linguistic resources of humor -- Chapter 3. Humor as a textual genre: from jokes to comic narratives -- Chapter 4. Structural principles of narrative humor -- Chapter 5. Pragmatics of the humorous narrative -- Chapter 6. A model of humorous narratives -- Chapter 7. Extending the analysis -- Backmatter |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454217303321 |
Ermida Isabel <1968->
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| Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, c2008 | ||
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The language of comic narratives [[electronic resource] ] : humor construction in short stories / / by Isabel Ermida
| The language of comic narratives [[electronic resource] ] : humor construction in short stories / / by Isabel Ermida |
| Autore | Ermida Isabel <1968-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, c2008 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (274 p.) |
| Disciplina | 808.3/1 |
| Collana | Humor research |
| Soggetto topico |
Humor in literature
Short story - Authorship |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Humor
pragmatics semantics text linguistics |
| ISBN |
1-281-99353-0
9786611993535 3-11-020833-4 |
| Classificazione | EC 3930 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of tables and figures -- Foreword -- Chapter 1. The concept of humor: history, scope and issues -- Chapter 2. Linguistic resources of humor -- Chapter 3. Humor as a textual genre: from jokes to comic narratives -- Chapter 4. Structural principles of narrative humor -- Chapter 5. Pragmatics of the humorous narrative -- Chapter 6. A model of humorous narratives -- Chapter 7. Extending the analysis -- Backmatter |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782765903321 |
Ermida Isabel <1968->
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| Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, c2008 | ||
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The pragmatics of humour across discourse domains / / edited by Marta Dynel
| The pragmatics of humour across discourse domains / / edited by Marta Dynel |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (388 p.) |
| Disciplina | 808.7 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | DynelMarta |
| Collana | Pragmatics & beyond new series |
| Soggetto topico |
Wit and humor
Language and languages Pragmatics |
| ISBN |
9786613174840
9781283174848 1283174847 9789027285225 9027285225 |
| Classificazione | EC 3930 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | pt. 1. Stylistic figures as forms of humour -- pt. 2. (Non)interactive forms of humour -- pt. 3. Forms of humour in public discourse. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910959796603321 |
| Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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