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9781900755726

The Anatomy of Laughter

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    9781900755726

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    1900755726

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2005-08-01
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

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. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Edith Franck McMorran x
List of Contributors
xii
Introduction 1(10)
Jane Taylor
Anatomie et etymologie: ordre et desordre du rire selon Laurent Joubert
11(13)
Dominique Bertrand
The Sound of Laughter: Recent Concepts and Findings in Research into Laughter Vocalizations
24(10)
Silke Kipper
Dietmar Todt
Why Can't You Tickle Yourself?
34(8)
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
Belly Laughs
42(8)
Michael Holland
Upping the Ante/i: Exaggeration in Celine and Valles
50(8)
Walter Redfern
Humour Styles and Class Cultures: Highbrow Humour and Lowbrow Humour in the Netherlands
58(12)
Giselinde Kuipers
Searching for Jokes: Language, Translation, and the Cross-Cultural Comparison of Humour
70(16)
Christie Davies
And What If They Don't Laugh?
86(7)
Ted Cohen
Without the Rape the Talk-Show Would Not Be Laughable
93(7)
Iain Galbraith
Translating a Great Feast of Languages
100(9)
Jean-Michel Deprats
Traduire le rire
109(6)
Paul J. Memmi
Rire et desir dans les comedies americaines de Lubitsch: l'exemple de Ninotchka (1939)
115(9)
Natacha Thiery
What's So Funny? On Being Laughed at ...
124(7)
Adam Phillips
Laughing and Talking
131(11)
Sukanta Chaudhuri
Le Rire comme accident en peinture
142(11)
Georges Roque
La Couleur du rire: peinture et traduction
153(8)
Laurent Bazin
Views on the Physics and Metaphysics of Laughter
161(16)
Gerard Toulouse
Index 177

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