Talking About Laughter

Author : Ted Cunningham
Publisher : Focus on the Family
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781684282128

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A Love That Laughs by Ted Cunningham Pdf

One of the secrets of a great marriage is laughing together. Couples don’t need to choose between work and play, duty and fun, laughter and responsibility. This book will help couples learn how to use fun, humor, and laughter to lighten the load of everyday life, reduce stress, and grow closer together.

Author : Alan H. Sommerstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780199554195

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Talking about Laughter by Alan H. Sommerstein Pdf

Fourteen studies, including some previously unpublished, by Alan Sommerstein on Aristophanes and his fellow dramatists. Each chapter deals with its own topic, but between them they build up a multifaceted picture of the dramatist, the genre, and its interactions with the society of classical Athens.

Author : James Martin
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780062098627

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Between Heaven and Mirth by James Martin Pdf

“Between Heaven and Mirth will make any reader smile. . . . Father Martin reminds us that happiness is the good God’s own goal for us.” —Timothy M. Dolan, Archbishop of New York From The Colbert Report’s “official chaplain” James Martin, SJ, author of the New York Times bestselling The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything, comes a revolutionary look at how joy, humor, and laughter can change our lives and save our spirits. A Jesuit priest with a busy media ministry, Martin understands the intersections between spirituality and daily life. In Between Heaven and Mirth, he uses scriptural passages, the lives of the saints, the spiritual teachings of other traditions, and his own personal reflections to show us why joy is the inevitable result of faith, because a healthy spirituality and a healthy sense of humor go hand-in-hand with God's great plan for humankind.

Author : Phillip Glenn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139437370

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Laughter in Interaction by Phillip Glenn Pdf

Laughter in Interaction is an illuminating and lively account of how and why people laugh during conversation. Bringing together twenty-five years of research on the sequential organisation of laughter in everyday talk, Glenn analyses recordings and transcripts to show the finely detailed co-ordination of human laughter. He demonstrates that its production and placement, relative to talk and other activities, reveal much about its emergent meaning and accomplishments. The book shows how the participants in a conversation move from a single laugh to laughing together, how the matter of 'who laughs first' implicates orientation to social activities and how interactants work out whether laughs are more affiliative or hostile. The final chapter examines the contribution of laughter to sequences of conversational intimacy and play and to the invocation of gender. Engaging and original, the book shows how this seemingly insignificant part of human communication turns out to play a highly significant role in how people display, respond to and revise identities and relationships.

Author : Phillip Glenn,Elizabeth Holt
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781441162809

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Studies of Laughter in Interaction by Phillip Glenn,Elizabeth Holt Pdf

Laughter is pervasive in interaction yet often overlooked in the research. This volume presents a collection of original studies revealing the highly-ordered, complex, and important phenomenon of laughter in everyday interactions. Building on 40 years of conversation analytic research, the authors show how the design and placement of laughs contribute to unfolding sequences, social activities, identities, and relationships. In this revealing study leading experts investigate laughter in a range of different contexts and across a variety of languages. The research demonstrates that laughter is not simply a reaction to humour but is used in a fascinating array of different ways. Findings reported here include its use in clinics, employment interviews, news interviews, classrooms, the discourse of children with severe autism, and ordinary conversations. The acoustics of laughter and its relationship to movement, gaze and gesture are also explored. The volume brings together new and influential research into this phenomenon to present the state-of-the-art. It will be invaluable to anyone interested in the study of interaction, conversation analysis, humour and laughter.

Author : Alan Partington
Publisher : Taylor & Francis US
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Conversation analysis
ISBN : 0415544076

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The Linguistics of Laughter by Alan Partington Pdf

Using a corpus-linguistics approach, this impressive volume examines what speakers try to achieve by producing 'laughables' and what hearers are signalling when they produce laughter.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781134178124

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The Linguistics of Laughter by Anonim Pdf

Author : Toby Garfitt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351197656

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The Anatomy of Laughter by Toby Garfitt Pdf

"The nature of laughter has recently attracted the attention of a number of different disciplines. In two recent colloquia, TRIO (Translation Research in Oxford) brought together international authorities from fields as diverse as physiology, psychology, linguistics, translation and literary studies, and sociology, with scant regard for political correctness. This fascinating and often hilarious collection of essays is the result. With the contributions: Jane Taylor - Introduction Dominique Bertrand - Anatomie et etymologie: ordre et desordre du rire selon Laurent Joubert Silke Kipper, Dietmar Todt - The Sound of Laughter: Recent Concepts and Findings in Research into Laughter Vocalizations Sarah-Jayne Blakemore - Why Can't You Tickle Yourself? Michael Holland - Belly Laughs Walter Redfern - Upping the Ante/i: Exaggeration in Celine and Valles Giselinde Kuipers - Humour Styles and Class Cultures: Highbrow Humour and Lowbrow Humour in the Netherlands Christie Davies - Searching for Jokes: Language, Translation, and the Cross-Cultural Comparison of Humour Ted Cohen - And What If They Don't Laugh? Iain Galbraith - Without the Rape the Talk-Show Would Not Be Laughable Jean-Michel Deprats - Translating a Great Feast of Languages Paul J. Memmi - Traduire le rire Natacha Thiery - Rire et desir dans les comedies americaines de Lubitsch: l'exemple de Ninotchka (1939) Adam Phillips - What's So Funny? On Being Laughed at ...Sukanta Chaudhuri - Laughing and Talking Georges Roque - Le Rire comme accident en peinture Laurent Bazin - La Couleur du rire: peinture et traduction Gerard Toulouse - Views on the Physics and Metaphysics of Laughter"

Author : Phillip J. Glenn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Conversation analysis
ISBN : OCLC:848733129

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Laughter in Interaction by Phillip J. Glenn Pdf

Author : Pragito Dove
Publisher : New World Library
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-04
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781577316848

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Laughter, Tears, Silence by Pragito Dove Pdf

Using the principles she teaches, Pragito Dove transformed her fear and grief into joy and inner peace. Her accessible, innovative methods allow you to reap the benefits of meditation in thirty seconds, four minutes, or twenty-four hours, wherever you are and whenever you need a moment of calm. Emphasizing expression, rather than repression, of emotion, these dynamic practices can begin with a variety of movements and sounds, or with silence. Meeting practitioners where they are — in sadness, fear, stress, anger, or joy — the techniques can be done in the midst of work, play, and home life, and either alone or with others. Drawing on such traditions as Sufism and Buddhism and such teachers as the twentieth-century mystics Osho and Gurdjieff, Dove’s synthesis meets the needs of contemporary life with attention to the full range of human experience and reverence for the peace and joy possible in every moment.

Author : Anthony J. Chapman,Hugh C. Foot
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781412825740

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Humour and laughter by Anthony J. Chapman,Hugh C. Foot Pdf

Humor and laughter play a vital part in our everyday social encounters. In this book, well-known psychologists including Thomas R. Shultz, Mary K. Rathbart, and Goran Nerhardt explore the psychology of humor and laughter, examining the major theoretical perspectives underlying current approaches. This volume draws together the main empirical work done over the course of the twentieth century.

Author : Norman Norwood Holland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Humor
ISBN : UOM:39015015272456

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Laughing, a Psychology of Humor by Norman Norwood Holland Pdf

Author : Robert R. Provine
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2001-12-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781101659250

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Laughter by Robert R. Provine Pdf

Do men and women laugh at the same things? Is laughter contagious? Has anyone ever really died laughing? Is laughing good for your health? Drawing upon ten years of research into this most common-yet complex and often puzzling-human phenomenon, Dr. Robert Provine, the world's leading scientific expert on laughter, investigates such aspects of his subject as its evolution, its role in social relationships, its contagiousness, its neural mechanisms, and its health benefits. This is an erudite, wide-ranging, witty, and long-overdue exploration of a frequently surprising subject.

Author : Carroll Edward Lisby
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781469122946

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Presto! Laughter by Carroll Edward Lisby Pdf

One thing magicians like to hear even more than oohs and ahhs is laugher. They know laughter means a happy, satisfied audience, which means more bookings and higher fees. If youd like to add new laughs to your act but have despaired of finding suitable material take heart. Here is the resource countless magicians have been waiting for: Carroll Lisbys Presto! Laughter: More Than 2,800 New Laugh-Lines for Your Favorite Magic Tricks. Not a batch of old, recycled jokes, Presto! Laughter is instead a goldmine of magic-themed laugh-lines that you can drop in at appropriate times during a performance.

Author : Jerry King
Publisher : King Training & Development
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : American wit and humor
ISBN : 0964777509

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Help! I'm Talking, and I Can't Shut Up! by Jerry King Pdf

Over 80% of the U.S. population experiences a substantial amount of stress, job burnout, high blood pressure, fear or depression. This hilarious new book shows readers how using their own sense of humor & laughter & Jerry's "Laugh-itness Program" can lead to better health, being happier on the job, & a more "fun-filled" personal & family life. Readers will be "belly-laughin'" as they read Jerry's personal experiences from the funny side of life. Classics such as: "Christmas Eve At The Laundrymat With Elvis," "Get Your Fingers Out Of My Mouth," & "The Drive-In Movie Just 'Ain't The Same!" Jerry has personally shared his "laugh-at-life" message of humor with thousands. As a result of his unforgettable experiences as an educator, business leader, & "all-in-the-family-man," he is in high demand as a dynamic speaker with his "LEARNIN' 'N LAFFIN'" SEMINARS at conferences & training sessions for businesses, schools & civic organizations. One recent reviewer read, "Jerry's humor is infectious! Following his examples & humor principles can lead to great personal & professional success! IT JUST DOESN'T GET ANY FUNNIER THAN THIS!" To order call Kreative Kommunications: 1-800-528-5559. $8.95 plus S & H.