The Importance of Not Being Earnest: The Feeling Behind Laughter and Humor
(Book #3 in the Consciousness & Emotion Book Series)
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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 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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:9027241546
ISBN13:9789027241542
Release Date:February 2007
Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Company
Length:167 Pages
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