It's a Funny Thing, Humour
Proceedings of The International Conference on Humour and Laughter 1976
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It's a Funny Thing, Humour
Proceedings of The International Conference on Humour and Laughter 1976
About This Book
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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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- It's a Funny Thing, Humour
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Foreword
- PART 1: ESSAYS ON THE NATURE OF HUMOUR, LAUGHTER AND COMEDY
- PART 2: FURTHER STUDIES ON HUMOUR AND LAUGHTER
- Humour, Laughter and Comedy: A Bibliography of Empirical and Nonempirical Analyses in the English Language
- Conference Contributors