In:The Importance of Not Being Earnest: The feeling behind laughter and humor
Wallace Chafe
[Consciousness & Emotion Book Series 3] 2007
► pp. v–x
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Published online: 1 February 2007
https://doi.org/10.1075/ceb.3.toc
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Table of contents
Preface
Symbols Used in Transcribing Laughterxiii
Introduction
Part One: How we laugh
The essential ingredients of laughter
Varieties of laughter
Laughing while speaking
Beyond the vocal tract
Part Two: Why we laugh
The feeling of nonseriousness
Nonseriousness without humor
Unplanned humor
Planned humor in oral traditions
Planned humor in writing
Humor in other cultures
Part Three: Pulling things together
Recapitulation
Reconciliation with other studies
Coda
References
Index
