Engaging Humor - Softcover

Oring, Elliott

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0252075935 ISBN 13: 9780252075933

Verlag: Combined Academic Publ., 2008

Inhaltsangabe

Elliott Oring asks essential questions concerning humorous expression in contemporary society, examining how humor works, why it is employed, and what its messages might be. This provocative book is filled with examples of jokes and riddles that reveal humor to be a meaningful--even significant--form of expression. Oring provides alternate ways of thinking about humorous expressions by examining their contexts--not just their contents. Engaging Humor demonstrates that when analyzed contextually and comparatively, humorous expressions emerge as communications that are startling, intriguing, and profound.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Elliott Oring is a professor emeritus of anthropology at California State University, Los Angeles, and is the author of Israeli Humor, The Jokes of Sigmund Freud, and Jokes and Their Relations. He serves on the editorial board of Humor: International Journal of Humor Research.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Combined Academic Publ.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0252075935
• ISBN 13: 9780252075933
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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