Humor
I alla tider och i alla kulturer har det skrattats, men alltid utifrån tidens villkor. Jarno Hietalahti djupdyker i humorns djupaste frågor. Ingår i serien Värt att veta. Ges ut i samarbete med Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland.
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Humor er ingenting i sig selv, men en snylter af vAerste skuffe. - Maske endda lidt af et skuffejern? - Det sagde hun ogsa i gar ... Nej, spog til side: Humor er meget mere end platheder, der kan aflede enhver samtale. Humor sAetter et perspektiv pa livet, os selv og hinanden, hvis pointe isAer selvhojtidelige magthavere ikke fatter: Vi er alle latterlige. Det mener Stefan Kjerkegaard, serios sprogspiller ved Aarhus Universitet, og han er ikke engang sAerlig sjov. Det er hans onkel til gengAeld. Han er lige til at grine ad.
Humor
Humor är ett bekant fenomen för gemene man och vi är alla var experter på vår egen humor. När något skojigt händer noteras det genast och folk brister ut i skratt. Men ibland skrattar vi åt helt olika saker och en osäkerhet infinner sig. Är det något fel på min humor eller ligger felet hos de andra? Hur ska vi egentligen tänka kring humor? Jarno Hietalahti dyker ner i humorns djupaste filosofiska frågor och visar att humor är en väsentlig del av det mänskliga. I alla kulturer under alla tider har det skrattats, men alltid utifrån den tidens villkor. Också mänsklighetens historia har färgats av humoristiska aspekter och det är upp till oss själva vilken betydelse vi ger skrattet i våra liv och vad vi använder humorn till.
Humor
Humor is een fascinerend, prachtig geschreven en komisch boek over wat homor ons kan vertellen over onze menselijke natuur. Van de oudheid tot aan de moderne tijd en puttend uit het werk van een breed scala aan auteurs, in het bijzonder Swift, Ste...
Humor
'Properly, seriously good. Humoric structure . . . oneiric texture, with pitch-black basalt fins jutting through.' Robert Macfarlane 'Apocalyptic, darkly funny and spooky.' Dazed Welcome to Stanley Donwood's fictional universe: a landscape of dark...
Kinesic Humor
Kinesic Humor
Golf Humor
The best of GOLF humor from America's funniest sporting cartoonist. Cartoonist, Robert Tiritilli understands 'the pars and bogeys' of the golf world. This former Italian Mafia long-drive champion has teamed with Charles Hellman, an ex-caddie, to find more ways to blend these one-panel cartoons and jokes with clever captions. They bring out the 'FUNNY' in sports. The wit and satire of these cartoons and their absurdities come to life from Tiritilli's pen. His outrageous graphics poke fun at golfers, equipment and golf terms with equal gusto.
Jewish Humor
Here are more than 100 of the best Jewish jokes you'll ever hear, interspersed with perceptive and persuasive insight into what they can tell us about how Jews see themselves, their families, and their friends, and what they think about money, sex...
Vaudeville Humor
Vaudeville Humor: The Collected Jokes, Routines, and Skits of Ed Lowry contains vaudeville jokes, skits, and routines from the first three decades of the twentieth century originally compiled by comedian Ed Lowry (1896-1983). Although occasionally...
Gallows Humor
Corey Curtis is coasting. At thirty-three, she's in the best shape of her life and has a satisfying position at Jackson City Memorial Hospital. With a good paycheck, great friends, and occasional relationships with smart, beautiful women, she couldn't be happier. She thinks. Dr. Thayer Reynolds, whiling away some time before the start of her Emergency Department fellowship at JCMH and intrigued by the stories she's heard, crashes the morgue to get a look at Corey--the woman her young colleagues are whispering about. Totally spinning from her first interactions with Thayer, Corey throws herself into the post mortem exam of a construction worker who fell to his death, which isn't at all suspicious--until it is. With no support from her boss or the police, Corey investigates the death on her own. Making bad decisions with good intentions, she recklessly endangers her own life and Thayer's. Even worse--she potentially dooms any chance of a real relationship with Thayer before it even gets
Humor Me
For fans of Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld, a hilarious, heartfelt novel about the healing power of female friendship, unexpected love, and stand-up comedy Presley Fry is not amused. She's been an assistant at the Late Night Show for way too long, she's adopted a 'business casual' approach to dating to save herself from the embarrassment of seeking genuine connection, and she's content to let her gregarious roommate, Isabelle, orchestrate her entire social life. Not completely disillusioned, Presley is enamored with the world of stand-up comedy. The joy she finds in discovering up-and-coming comedians is enough for now. Presley is still reeling from her mother's death, which still knocks the wind out of her every time she reaches for the phone. Enter Susan Clark, her late mother's childhood best friend. Susan is married to the head of the network where Presley works, and is determined to take Presley under her wing. She's equally determined to connect Presley with her son, the
Interactional Humor
The central question explored in this volume is: How is humor multimodally produced, perceived, responded to, and negotiated? To this end, it offers a panorama of linguistic research on multimodal and interactional humor, based on different theoretical frameworks, corpora, and methodologies. Humor is considered as an activity that is interactionally achieved, regardless of whether the interaction in which it is embedded is face-to-face, computer-mediated, with a human or a robot, oral or written. The aim is to analyze both the linguistic resources of the participants (such as their lexicon, prosody, gestures, gazes, or smiles) and the semiotic resources that social networks and instant messaging platforms offer them (such as memes, gifs, or emojis).
Humor, Ljudbok
Humor är ett bekant fenomen för gemene man och vi är alla var experter på vår egen humor. När något skojigt händer noteras det genast och folk brister ut i skratt. Men ibland skrattar vi åt helt olika saker och en osäkerhet infinner sig. Är det något fel på min humor eller ligger felet hos de andra? Hur ska vi egentligen tänka kring humor?Jarno Hietalahti dyker ner i humorns djupaste filosofiska frågor och visar att humor är en väsentlig del av det mänskliga. I alla kulturer under alla tider har det skrattats, men alltid utifrån den tidens villkor. Också mänsklighetens historia har färgats av humoristiska aspekter och det är upp till oss själva vilken betydelse vi ger skrattet i våra liv och vad vi använder humorn till.
Recontextualizing Humor
Humor may surface in numerous and diverse contexts, which at the same time determine how humor works, its form, and its functions and consequences for interlocutors. Adopting a sociolinguistic and discourse analytic perspective, this study is aligned with approaches to humor exploring the variety of humorous genres, the wide range of sociopragmatic functions of humor, and the more or less dissimilar perceptions speakers may have concerning what humor is, what it means, and how it works. The chapters of this book propose a new theoretical approach to the analysis of humor by bringing context into focus. Furthermore, the study explores how we can teach about humor within a critical literacy framework creating classroom space for everyday humorous texts that are part of students’ social realities, and simultaneously taking into account that humor may yield multiple, disparaging, and often conflicting interpretations. This book is intended to appeal to humor researchers from various
Humor Me
"Humor Me" is a literary cavalcade of contemporary American funnymen - and funnywomen - of the page. Selected by the renowned humorist Ian Frazier and featuring more than fifty pieces of the greatest comic writing of our time, the book i...
Writing Humor
Providing both theory and praxis, this creative textbook explains how to write humour, comedy, satire, parody, nonsense, and both the literary and the joke monologue. Through its close analyses of short stories, sketches, essays and scripts, it sh...
Dark Humor
Dark Humor
Humour
Humour has been discovered in every known human culture and thinkers have discussed it for over two thousand years. Humour can serve many functions; it can be used to relieve stress, to promote goodwill among strangers, to dissipate tension within...
Rumor
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Humour
A compelling guide to the fundamental place of humour and comedy within Western culture-by one of its greatest exponents Written by an acknowledged master of comedy, this study reflects on the nature of humour and the functions it serves. Why do w...
Tumor
Tumor
Vitreous Humor: Vitreous Humor Self-titled EP +
Vitreous Humor: Vitreous Humor Self-titled EP + [Vinyl LP]
Humor i bilder
Bob Bovin har riktat sin kamera mot livets humoristiska situationer. Boken innehåller bilder från många av världens hörn och omfattar mer än femtio år av fotograferande. Många av bilderna i boken kommer att ge dig ett leende och lysa upp din dag.
Gender and Humor
In the mid-seventies, both gender studies and humor studies emerged as new disciplines, with scholars from various fields undertaking research in these areas. The first publications that emerged in the field of gender studies came out of disciplin...
Mathematics and Humor
Mathematics and Humor
Humor and Psyche
Humor, a topic that engaged Sigmund Freud both early and late in his career, is richly intertwined with character, with creativity, and with the theory and practice of psychoanalytic therapy. Yet, until very recently, analysts ignored Freud's lead...