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Analyzing conversational data in GTVH terms: A new approach to the issue of identity construction via humor

The central aim of this paper is to apply the General Theory of Verbal Humor (henceforth GTVH; Attardo 2001) to conversational narratives and to integrate it with sociopragmatic approaches...

Keywords: General Theory of Verbal Humor, identity construction, humorous conversational narratives, target, group identity, laughter

04/2005 | Humor - International Journal of Humor Research, Walter de Gruyter

Humor appreciation as an adaptive esthetic emotion

This article describes ethological analyses of the arts, and notes parallels between the arts and humor...

Keywords: humor, humor appreciation, humor production, esthetics, fitness, laughter

02/2006 | Humor - International Journal of Humor Research, Walter de Gruyter

The laughter of the 1962 Tanganyika ‘laughter epidemic’

The present article discusses the role of laughter in the much cited ‘laughter epidemic’ that occurred in Tanganyika in 1962...

Keywords: Africa, laughter, laughter epidemic, mass hysteria, mass psychogenic illness, Tanganyika

02/2007 | Humor - International Journal of Humor Research, Walter de Gruyter

On laughter and disagreement in multiparty assessment talk

This study examines the interactional upshots of laughter in multiparty network conferences...

Keywords: disagreement, laughter, lay?professional interaction, multiparty talk