It's a Funny Thing, Humour
Proceedings of The International Conference on Humour and Laughter 1976
Published on 22. October 2013
526 pages
978-1-4831-5825-9 (ISBN)
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It's a Funny Thing, Humour contains the papers presented at the International Conference on Humor and Laughter, held in Cardiff in July 1976. The symposium provides a platform from which authors from different professional and personal background can talk about their own definition and analysis of humor. The book is structured into 10 main sections that reflect the structure of the conference and presents various studies and research on the nature of humor and laughter. Contributions range from theoretical discussions to practical and experimental expositions. Topics on the psychoanalytical theory of humor and laughter; the nature and analysis of jokes; cross-cultural research of humor; mirth measurement; and humor as a tool of learning are some of the topics covered in the symposium. Psychologists, sociologists, teachers, communication experts, psychiatrists, and people who are curious to know more about humor and laughter will find the book very interesting and highly amusing.
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PrefaceForewordI. Essays on the Nature of Humor, Laughter and Comedy If Hamlet Had a Sense of Humor The Psychoanalytic Theory of Humor and Laughter Humor as a Tool of Social Interaction American Humor and the Spirit of the Times The Appeasement Function of Mirthful Laughter A Model of the Origins and Early Development of Incongruity-Based Humor Elephants and Marshmallows: A Theoretical Synthesis of Incongruity Resolution and Arousal Theories of Humor Cognitive and Disparagement Theories of Humor: A Theoretical and Empirical Synthesis Operationalization of Incongruity in Humor Research: A Critique and Suggestions Humor as a Form of Social Control: A Deviance Approach Black Humor in the Modern Cartoon Verbal Jokes as De-transformed Utterances and as Speech Acts The Psycho-Logic of Political Humor The Great Screen Clowns and the Development of World Cinema The Art of Revue: Further Emphases for the Psychology of HumorII. Approaches to the Study of Humor Psychological Approaches to the Study of Humor Humor and the Theory of Psychological Reversals Some Characteristics of Resting Respiration as Predictors of Laughter Mirth Measurement: A New Technique The Logic of Humor and the Humor in logic From Joseph Grimaldi to Charlie Cairoli: A Semiotic Approach to Humor Comic Mythos and Children's Literature - Or, out of the Frying Pan and into the Pyre Approaches to the Study of Humor: DiscussionIII. Humor as a Form of Therapy Humor As a Form of Therapy: Introduction to Symposium The Essential Ambiguity Of, and in, Humor The Sense of Humor: Actualizer of Persons and Theories The Use of Jokes in Psychotherapy The Place of Humor in Adult Psychotherapy Humor, Irony and Self-Detachment The Use and Abuse of Humor in the World of the Family: Current Trends in America Humor in Psychotherapy IV. Cross-cultural Humor Cross-Cultural Research: Humor Here and There A Cross-Cultural Study of the Structure of Humor Magnificent Liars: Exaggeration in American Humor Play and Ritual: Complementary Frames of Meta-Communication Social Occasions for Joking: A Cross-Cultural StudyV. Children's Humor Children's Humor: A Review of Current Research Trends Measuring Effects of Incongruity and Resolution in Children's Humor Humor in Children Related to Piaget's Theory of Intellectual Development Birth Order and Humor Responsiveness in Young Children A Developmental Analysis of Children's Favorite Jokes Developmental Levels in Explanations of Humor From Childhood to Late Adolescence Comprehension and Emotional Adhesion in the Genetics of Humor Children's Humor: DiscussionVI. Ethnic Humor Ethnic Humor: From Paradoxes Towards Principles Context and Ethnic Humor in Intergroup Relations The Mass Media and the Functions of Ethnic Humor in a Racist Society Vicarious Superiority, Injustice, and Aggression in Humor: The Role of the Playful 'Judgmental Set' Ethnic Humor is No Joke Ethnic Humor as a Function of Social-Normative Incongruity and Ego-Involvement An Irony of Irony: The Left-Handed Insult in Intra-group Humor Ethnic Humor: DiscussionVII. Humor and Communication Humor and Communication: Introduction Tendentious Humor in the Mass Media The Changing Stereotype of the Welsh in English Jokes Humor In Situ: The Role of Humor in Small Group Culture Development Aspects of Humor and Laughter in Young Adolescent Girls Tracking the Intractable - The Analysis of Humor in the Study of Value Systems Degree of Hostility in Squelches as a Factor in Humor Appreciation The Function of Humor in the Classroom Humor and Communication: DiscussionVIII.
