Author: Alan Partington
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: linguistics, laughter, routledge, studies, assisted, corpus, study
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2006-08-31
List price: $128.00
ISBN-10: 0415381665
ISBN-13: 9780415381666
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 al
Author: Frederick Buechner
Publisher: HarperOne
Keywords: laughter, son
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1994-08-19
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 0062501178
ISBN-13: 9780062501172
"The Bible’s account of Jacob is a pungent seed found in a tomb," wrote the poet James Merrill about this novel. "Frederick Buechner has planted it and the result is this beautiful swaying tree of a book." The fact that Merrill was an old friend of Buechner’s does not disqualify this eloquent testimony. Indeed, Jacob is powerfully translated here through Buechner’s honest and humorous--and cantankerous--voice. We see a living, human character, as always in Buechner’s work, whether fiction or nonfiction. From this archetypal tale of feuding brothers he draws a story of f
Author: Langston Hughes
Publisher: Touchstone
Keywords: laughter
Number of Pages: 299
Published: 1995-03-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0020209851
ISBN-13: 9780020209850
A classic of African-American literature, with a new introduction by Maya Angelou, presents a coming-of-age novel filled with lyricism and humor and set in a small Kansas town during the early twentieth century. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
Author: Henri Bergson
Publisher: Atropos Press
Keywords: laughter
Number of Pages: 132
Published: 2010-01-19
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0982530935
ISBN-13: 9780982530931
----Henri Bergson is the author of numerous works including Matter and Memory, Creative Evolution and Time and Free Will. His work has been influential for many thinkers such as Walter Benjamin, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Gilles Deleuze. ----Drew Burk is a graduate and technical director at the European Graduate School. He is the translator of such philosophers as Jean Baudrillard, Jacques Derrida and Paul Virilio. ----What does laughter mean? What is the fundamental element of the laughable? What common ground can be found between the grimace of a clown, a play on words, a similar
Author: F. H. Buckley
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: laughter, morality
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2005-03-01
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0472068180
ISBN-13: 9780472068180
“Bravo! I’ll say nothing funny about it, for it is asuperior piece of work.”—P. J. O’Rourke“F. H. Buckley’s The Morality of Laughter is at oncea humorous look at serious matters and a seriousbook about humor.”—Crisis Magazine“Buckley has written a . ne and funny book that willbe read with pleasure and instruction.”—First Things“. . . written elegantly and often wittily. . . .”—National Post“. . . a fascinating philosophical exposition oflaughter. . . .”—National Review“. . . at once a wise and highly amusing book.”—Wall Street Journal Online“. . . a
Author: Lin Yutang
Publisher: Yutang Press
Keywords: laughter, tears
Number of Pages: 228
Published: 2008-11-04
List price: $40.45
ISBN-10: 1443728411
ISBN-13: 9781443728416
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artw
Author: Sheri Klein
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Keywords: art, laughter
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 2007-01-15
List price: $94.00
ISBN-10: 1845112334
ISBN-13: 9781845112332
This is the first book to take seriously (though not too seriously) the surprisingly neglected role of humour in art. Art and Laughter looks back to comic masters such as Hogarth and Daumier and to Dada, Surrealism and Pop Art, asking what makes us laugh and why, and exploring the use of comedy in art from satire and irony to pun, parody and black and bawdy humor. Encouraging laughter in the hallowed space of the gallery, Klein takes us on a tour of the comic work of Red Grooms, Cary Leibowitz, William Wegman, The Chicago Hairy Who, Richard Prince, Bruce Nauman, Jeff Koons, Vik Muniz and many
