The importance of not being earnest the feeling behind laughter and humor
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 co...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
J. Benjamins Pub. Co
c2007.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Consciousness & emotion book series ;
v. 3. |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798381106719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
