Author: Agnes RepplierPublisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin
ISBN:
Category : Comic, The
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
The Pursuit of Laughter
Author: Diana MosleyPublisher: Gibson Square Books
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
Diana Mitford is one of the surprise discoveries of the phenomenally successful collection of Mitford letters published for Christmas 2007. This paperback edition is expanded with articles on Oswald Mosley and Lord Berners.
Life, Laughter, and the Pursuit of Sarcasm
Author: Dan AdamchakPublisher: Newman Springs
ISBN:
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The reason behind this book is to show humor can be found in nearly everything. I've worked in the customer service industry for more than twenty years, so needless to say, I have witnessed a lot that have entitled, ignorant, and arrogant people in their natural environment. It's thanks to these people that I have been able to sharpen my sarcasm. It was only recently though that some coworkers convinced me to start writing down the comments to keep them for future laughter. I've decided to break this book into sections based on whether the comment is off the top of my head, a cliche kind of remark, a mix of lines from the entertainment industry, and even some profound lines to make you think.
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Author: Gail JEFFERSONLaughter
Author: Robert R. ProvinePublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101659254
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Do men and women laugh at the same things? Is laughter contagious? Has anyone ever really died laughing? Is laughing good for your health? Drawing upon ten years of research into this most common-yet complex and often puzzling-human phenomenon, Dr. Robert Provine, the world's leading scientific expert on laughter, investigates such aspects of his subject as its evolution, its role in social relationships, its contagiousness, its neural mechanisms, and its health benefits. This is an erudite, wide-ranging, witty, and long-overdue exploration of a frequently surprising subject.
The Linguistics of Laughter
Author: Alan PartingtonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134178115
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
The Linguistics of Laughter examines what speakers try to achieve by producing ‘laughter-talk’ (the talk preceding and eliciting an episode of laughter) and, by using abundant examples from language corpora, what hearers are signalling when they produce laughter. In particular, Alan Partington focuses on the tactical use of laughter-talk to achieve specific rhetorical, and strategic, ends: for example, to construct an identity, to make an argumentative point, to threaten someone else’s face or save one's own. Although laughter and humour are by no means always related, the book also considers the implications these corpus-based observations may have about humour theory in general. As one of the first works to have recourse to such a sizeable databank of examples of laughter in spontaneous running talk, this impressive volume is an essential point of reference and an inspiration for scholars with an interest in corpus linguistics, discourse, humour, wordplay, irony and laughter-talk as a social phenomenon.
Author: Rick Adams
Author: Steven Millhauser
Author: Kenneth Kysor
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