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Inoue, Akira, Yoshimune Hiratsuka, Atsuhide Takesue, Jun Aida, Katsunori Kondo, and Akira Murakami. "Association between visual status and the frequency of laughterin older Japanese individuals: the JAGES cross-sectional study." BMJ Open Ophthalmology 7, no. 1 (March 2022): e000908. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjophth-2021-000908.

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ObjectiveAlthough the beneficial effects of laughter are abundantly reported, the physical function that is required as a premise for laughter has not been studied. The aim of this study is to investigate the association between visual status and frequency of laughter in a population-based sample of older adults.Methods and analysisWe analysed cross-sectional data of community-dwelling independent individuals aged ≥65 years (n=19 452) in Japan. The outcomes were frequency of laughter and number of opportunities to laugh. We used multivariable logistic regression analysis with multiple imputations to investigate the association between visual status and laughter.ResultsThe number of participants who laughed almost every day was 8197 (42.1%). After adjusting for individual covariates in the multivariable logistic regression analysis with multiple imputations, visual status was found to be significantly associated with the frequency of laugher and the number of opportunities to laugh (p for trend <0.01). Compare to ‘normal vision’, while excellent/very good vision was associated with increased frequency and number of opportunities to laugh (ORs: 1.72 and 1.25, respectively), poor vision decreased the frequency and number of opportunities to laugh (ORs: 0.86 and 0.87, respectively).ConclusionsThere is a link between visual impairment and laughter, with poor vision having a negative impact while good vision has a positive effect. Improving vision may lead to laughter promotion.

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O’Connell, Daniel C., and Sabine Kowal. "Laughter in Bill Clinton’s My life (2004) interviews." Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) 15, no. 2-3 (June 1, 2005): 275–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/prag.15.2-3.06con.

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Two types of laughter of Bill Clinton and his interviewers – as an overlay of words spoken laughingly and laughter of the ha-ha sort - were investigated. The corpus consisted of 13 media interviews, all of which took place after the publication of his book My life (2004). Bill Clinton’s laughter was found to be dominantly an overlay of words spoken laughingly, whereas his interviewers’ laughter was dominantly of the ha-ha sort. In general, ha-ha laughter occurred as interruption or back channeling 30 % of the time and hence did not necessarily punctuate speech during pauses at the end of phrases and sentences as claimed by Provine (1993). Analyses of the topics laughed about indicated that Bill Clinton laughed mainly about his personal problems and his personal life, whereas his interviewers laughed mainly about politics and Clinton’s book. Accordingly, Bill Clinton’s laughter in these interviews was peculiarly monological and self-absorbed: It was generally not shared with the interviewers, either simultaneously or successively, in a genuinely contagious and dialogical fashion. Laughter did not follow upon “banal comments,” as Provine (2004: 215) has claimed, nor reflect either the “nonseriousness” claimed by Chafe (2003a, b) or the uncensored spontaneity noted by Provine (2004: 216). Instead, laughter reflected in every instance the personal perspectives of both Bill Clinton and his interviewers and was used, especially by Clinton, as a deliberate, sophisticated, and rhetorical device.

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Fauzan, Aris. "SENYUM DAN TAWA NABI SULAIMAN DI LEMBAH SEMUT: TELAAH KRITIS ATAS KISAH NABI SULAIMAN DALAM AL-QUR’AN." TASHWIR 10, no. 1 (June 4, 2022): 53–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.18592/jt.v10i1.7442.

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Abstract: Smiling and laughter are psycho-physical activities that occur in human beings and primates. Laughter is native to every human being, even primates. Theories of laughter and humor originated in ancient times with the view that laughter is an expression of feelings of superiority over another person. Theories of laughter and humor date back to ancient times, holding that laughter is an expression of feelings of superiority over others. Nietzsche's view that laughter is the appropriate response to the ultimate liberation of an individual. This confirms that anyone who laughs is actually free, because honest laughter is a spontaneous expression of the soul and is not bound by any rules. While Samuel Johnson wrote: Men have been wise in many different modes, but they have always laughed the same way. In terms of laughter, they have the same way.Keywords: Smiling; Laughter; Expression of the Soul. Abstrak: Senyum dan tawa merupakan aktivitas psiko-fisik yang terjadi pada makhluk jenis manusia dan primata. Tawa itu merupakan asli setiap manusia, bahkan primata. Theories of laughter and humor originated in ancient times with the view that laughter is an expression of feelings of superiority over another person. Teori tawa dan humor berasal dari zaman kuno berpandangan bahwa tawa adalah ekspresi perasaan superioritas atas orang lain. Nietzsche's view that laughter is the appropriate response to the ultimate liberation of an individual,tertawa itu menggambarkan puncak kebebasan seorang individu. Ini menegaskan siapa pun orang yang tertawa sejatinya dirinya terbebas, karena tertawa yang jujur itu merupakan ekspresi jiwa yang spontan dan tidak terikat oleh aturan apapun. Sementara Samuel Johnson, menuliskan: Men have been wise in many different modes, but they have always laughed the same way,dalam kearifan manusia memiliki banyak cara yang berbeda, tetapi dalam soal tertawa mereka memiliki cara yang sama. Kata Kunci: Senyum; Tawa; Ekspresi Jiwa.

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Humphrey, David. "‘Can mom laugh?’: The production of the Japanese television family, 1960s–80s." East Asian Journal of Popular Culture 8, no. 2 (September 1, 2022): 245–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/eapc_00077_1.

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In this article, I examine the history of audience laughter on Japanese television and its role in producing and sustaining the image of an intimate, family-like public during the medium’s early decades. With a focus on the progressive gendering of audience laughter on Japanese television from the 1960s onwards, I demonstrate how the move to procure female laughter on the medium reflected broader ideological expectations that women and their laughter might unify a family-like, national audience. I argue that Japanese television sought to leverage female laughter – both concretely through paid waraiya ‘laughers’ in the audience and through the gender ideology surrounding laughter – to negotiate television’s foundational tensions between the public and the private. More broadly, I suggest that the history of television laughter and its gendering can throw into relief television’s co-imbrication with discourses on gender, nation and consumption.

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O’Connell, Daniel C., and Sabine Kowal. "Laughter in the film The third man." Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) 16, no. 2-3 (June 1, 2006): 305–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/prag.16.2-3.07con.

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Two types of laughter were investigated in both the English- and the German-language versions of the film noir The third man (Korda, Selznik, & Reed 1949, 1962): ha-ha laughter and laughter overlaid on spoken words. The present authors’ transcripts constituted the database of the investigation. These were compared with other available versions: In English, the original novel (Greene 1950), the screenplay (Greene 1984), and a www.geocities.com transcript; in German, the novel in translation (Greene 1962) and a partial transcript (Timmermann & Baker 2002). Very little laughter is noted in any of these other versions, and what does occur is innocuous (embarrassed, ironic, humorous, or pleasant) laughter. The authors’ transcripts in both the English- and German-language versions, however, reveal abundant negative (cynical, hypocritical, or mendacious) laughter on the part of the criminal characters: The first (Baron Kurtz), the second (Mr. Popescu), and above all, the third man (Harry Lime). This laughter constitutes a notable change from both the medial and conceptual literacy of the novel and other written versions to the medial and conceptual orality of the film itself as a portrayal of spontaneous spoken dialogue. Laughter always reveals the personal perspective of the laugher and is used deliberately and skillfully as a rhetorical device. With the help of the villain’s sardonic laughter, the third man’s evil character is established in less than twelve minutes of dialogue. Such laughter is a far cry from the “instinctive, contagious, stereotyped, unconsciously controlled” ha-ha laughter described by Provine (2004: 215), from his “curious hybrid” (ibid.: 216) thereof (laughter overlaid on spoken words), and from the nonseriousness of laughter postulated by Chafe (2003a).

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Gruner, Charles R. "Audience's Response to Jokes in Speeches with and without Recorded Laughs." Psychological Reports 73, no. 1 (August 1993): 347–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1993.73.1.347.

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Two speakers made videotaped speeches containing apt humor twice before a live audience; in one presentation the live audience laughed at the jokes and in the other there was no laughter. 64 students saw one tape with laughter, then one without and rated each speaker on ethos scales and on “interestingness” and “funniness.” They preferred the speaker who elicited laughter, but a significant order of speakers made the main findings conditional.

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Rodnyi, Oleg V. "LAUGHTER TAXONOMY DISCOURSE IN THE RENAISSANCE LITERARY CONSCIOUSNESS." Alfred Nobel University Journal of Philology 1, no. 23 (June 2022): 8–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.32342/2523-4463-2022-1-23-1.

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The article is devoted to the analysis of the comic Renaissance literature through the prism of individual works in order to identify the main comic functions. The Renaissance laughter culture formation is one of the urgent and underdeveloped problems of modern humanities adressed to the study of the Renaissance. The purpose of our work and the tasks dictated by it – in the context of the «laughter word» of the Renaissance to reveal the main comic functions in the literature of this period that were formed by a new worldview and new relationships amoung people. The stated goal determines the need to use hermenegutic (analysis of literary texts), typological (comparison of various comic functions), historical (solution of a literary problem in the context of a historical epoch) research methods. The “discovery of the world and man” that was characteristic of the Renaissance also took place in fiction. Renaissance realism turned it’s face to the everyday life of a person, and literature willingly accepted a new theme for itself including comedy. The article highlights various social functions of laughter that were used in Renaissance literature. Recreational laughter function is the original and oldest one. Laughter is evidence of pleasure, relaxation, rest. This laughter’s function is necessary for the normal functioning of not only an individual, but society as a whole. Such works as fables, schwankis, facies, “Gargantua and Pantagruel” by Rabelais, “Don Quixote” by Cervantes, comedies by W. Shakespeare, their main task was entertaining first of all. Their laughter is a clear evidence of inner freedom and healthy vitality. Laughter is a social phenomenon, and therefore it must meet the well-known requirements of people livihg together. Therefore, one of the main of functions is social. Laughter should be a kind of social gesture; it frees society from mechanical rigidity. We single out this function in Luigi Pulci’s poem “Morgante”. Funny and serious, faith and disbelief, naivety and scientific coexist side by side in this work, defining its heroic-comic character. The ontological aspects of laugher are closely related to cognitive ones. The cognitive laughter function has a great importance in revealing social negative aspects, in bringing them to the point of absurdity and thereby revealing their inconsistency and the obligation to eliminate them. This laughter function is represented in Sebastian Brant`s poem “The Ship of Fools”, in Rotterdams satire “The Praise of Folly”, in F. Rabelais` novel “Gargantua and Pantagruel”. Laugh as an effective social sanction (the sanctioning function of laughter) is presented in Cervantes` novel. The main thing in Don Quixote is not so much a parody of chivalry as a realistic disclosure of new social conditions and worldview discoveries, which was a parody of a past life. At the end of the novel, realizing his madness, Don Quixote thereby frees himself from his comic. The novel takes on a pronounced tragic connotation. The title character recognizes his doom and ceases to be pathetic, he becomes a knight of the “sad image”, he dies not a pathetic madman, but a humble Christian. The various functions of laughter, presented in the Renaissance literature were an effective tool in the fight against the remnants of the Middle Ages and the establishment of a new worldview.

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Yanagisawa, Eiji, Martin J. Citardi, and JO Estill. "Videoendoscopic Analysis of Laryngeal Function during Laughter." Annals of Otology, Rhinology & Laryngology 105, no. 7 (July 1996): 545–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000348949610500710.

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Although commonly encountered in all human cultures, laughter remains poorly understood. In order to examine laryngeal function during laughter, telescopic and fiberscopic videolaryngoscopy was performed on five subjects, who laughed in the different vowels, at various frequencies, and in several voice qualities. During laughter, the vocal folds were found consistently to undergo rhythmic abduction and adduction. At the end of these specific phonation tasks, all subjects were able to gain voluntary control of paramedian vocal fold positioning. This study better defined laryngeal function during laughter. These results have important clinical implications. Voluntary vocal fold positioning has important applications in speech therapy for dysphonias, such as vocal fold nodules, in which the primary cause is vocal fold hyperadduction. Patients suffering from these hyperadductive dysphonias may be able to utilize laughter to correct them.

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Sarmi, Ni Nyoman, Kheista Sasi Kirana, Kusuma Wijaya, and Rommel Utungga Pasopati. "Authenticity and Its Discontent as Reflected on Heinrich Böll’s The Laugher." LET: Linguistics, Literature and English Teaching Journal 13, no. 1 (June 30, 2023): 68. http://dx.doi.org/10.18592/let.v13i1.8523.

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People are justified to be original but it could hinder people from their freedom as stated by Jean-Paul Sartre. The Laugher is Heinrich Böll’s short story of someone whose job is to laugh in various platforms. His laughter must be heard as original but his own life is full of pessimistic conditions. Then, how may being authentic be contested through Böll’s The Laugher? Through qualitative method on cultural studies, this paper puts tensions between being authentic by Sartre and reality of Böll’s story. The laugh seems to be authentic, but it is set to trigger other laughter, yet he is not happy though he laughs every time. He is demanded to laugh, but the laugh is bad faith as supported by Sartre. Authenticity in Böll’s story shows its own discontent. In conclusion, the story shows how laughter is done in a timed set. His laugh is not freedom since his own life is full of sad conditions.

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Emmerson, Phil. "Thinking laughter beyond humour: Atmospheric refrains and ethical indeterminacies in spaces of care." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 49, no. 9 (June 28, 2017): 2082–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0308518x17717724.

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Despite the range of subjects tackled by affective and emotional geographers, laughter has received relatively little attention. Those who do discuss laughter, do so for the most part in terms of the “humorous” moments that precede it. This paper proposes a distinctly different approach: shifting focus away from humour to foreground laughter as an analytical category. Through this, I argue that we can understand laughter as a phenomenon in its own right, without reducing it to humorous intentionality (even when there is humour present). This allows further analytical precision within discussions of laughter particularly around the ways in which it affects bodies and spaces. The paper first discusses laughter as more-than-representational; as having transpersonal and atmospheric spatialities, capable of affecting and being affected beyond its relationship with humour. The refrain is then deployed as a conceptual means through which we can grasp laughter’s indeterminate capacities to generate spaces, atmospheres and subjectivities. Drawing on insights from three months of ethnographic research spent working in nursing care homes, I illustrate these conceptions of laughter in terms of the ways it can enact, disrupt, and reconfigure different relationships between bodies and space. This case study thus prompts discussion of the ethical implications of thinking laughter in this manner, particularly the need to develop an ethos for laughter that remains open to its potential for multiple (and often unexpected) outcomes.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Laughter"

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Farris, Sara. "Desperate laughter /." View online, 1985. http://repository.eiu.edu/theses/docs/32211130497836.pdf.

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Bleasdale, John. "Shelly and laughter." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.366700.

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Piafsky, Michael. "Laughter and other lies." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/5974.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007.
The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on October 17, 2007) Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

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Torres, John L. "The laughter of faith." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2005. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p068-0562.

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Nugent, Michael Vincent. "The laughter of inclusion." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2016. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/6531/.

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This study is concerned with school-children’s communication, behavioural, and emotional development, in which the first concern has been to focus on their laughter. Although commonly thought of as an integral component of childhood, children’s laughter seldom receives the attention it deserves. The significance of laughter’s correlation with children’s social connectivity remains largely undiscovered. Little account has been taken of laughter’s exclusive orientation, and the strain this may create in schools with an avowedly inclusive ethos. Teachers and pupils who agreed to take part in this study were recruited from two primary schools. Together, they formed the substantive part of a pair of ethnographic case-studies. Data obtained from a series of playground/classroom observations and informal interviews were framed around Robert Putnam’s theory of social capital, and its own inclusive-exclusive (bridging and bonding) dynamic. Findings indicate that our diminishing stocks of social capital may be directly correlated with our decline in laughter production. They also confirm the view that it is unhelpful to consider inclusive and exclusive entities in isolation. Exclusive laughter appears to be a fundamental condition of inclusive schooling, with pupils and their teachers apparently natural exponents of a form of behaviour that may be described as inclusive-exclusive.

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Cohen, David. "The development of laughter." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 1985. http://repository.royalholloway.ac.uk/items/8dbda20c-3386-4463-8d4f-7505f935edb9/1/.

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The development of laughter is little understood even though it is an area of human behaviour that long intrigued psychologists and philosophers. A framework for understanding is required. With guidance from existing literature, observational data is used to develop such a framework. It is argued that no one single approach can, in principle, explain the phenomenon. Laughter occurs in too varied situations for it to be possible to claim that it is due to one single cause. Moreover, laboratory studies usually require subjects to laugh at 'funny' stimuli on cue. As a result, they have focussed on responsive laughter rather than on the conditions under which subjects try to make others laugh. Given this background, observational data is useful. In this study observational data from a longitudinal study of two children and from a study of children in a playgroup are used to argue that very young children not only laugh responsively but also create occasions for their own laughter. Moreover, while their ability to laugh develops in many ways linked to their cognitive and social development, they can still laugh at the kinds of situations that made them laugh when they were very young. It is concluded that observations have helpfully added to ways in which the development of laughter has been conceptualised. It is also suggested that some observations of laughter in young children have implications for research on how young children are capable of intentional behaviour.

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Paul, Daniel. "We Take Laughter Seriously." OpenSIUC, 2013. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1209.

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Bown, Alfie. "Eventual laughter : Dickens and comedy." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2014. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/eventual-laughter-dickens-and-comedy(b53f285d-bac9-43c8-827f-e63609226ea6).html.

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This thesis attempts to redress the drought of work on Dickens on comedy, which is surprising considering how often Dickens is thought of as a comic writer. The thesis uses Dickens to demonstrate problems with and resistance to existing theorizations of laughter, and attempts to develop a new way of thinking about laughter through Dickens. The thesis begins with a theoretical section, which is a discussion of existing discussions of laughter followed by an attempt to develop a new way of thinking about laughter by making use Alain Badiou’s concept of the ‘event.’ The thesis then moves to Section Two, in which these ideas are discussed alongside Dickens’s novels. Chapter Four attempts to show in a general way how Dickens and these discussions of laughter belong together, and how a certain moment in the nineteenth century that Dickens was a unique part of shows that new ways of discussing laughter are needed. Chapter Five argues that laughter in Dickens is not natural or spontaneous but part of constructing an idea of natural spontaneity. Pickwick Papers, it is argued, is the novel of retroactive causes, showing how laughter can create ideas of ‘nature’ which then appear to explain social behaviour such as laughter itself. Chapter Six tackles the relationship between laughter and anxiety. It argues that laughter creates order by ‘dealing’ with anxiety, but that this order it produces is profoundly unstable and has new anxieties. Barnaby Rudge is the novel which shows this in its particular historical context. The final chapter argues that Dickens’s writing can be called ‘comic’ in the terms that have been established throughout the thesis. Discussing Great Expectations, it argues that laughter is a plotting force that creates narratives and structures. Finally, the conclusion discusses changes that may have happened to laughter in the nineteenth century and what it means to find ourselves laughing at Dickens’s texts today.

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Seeparsand, Feroud Mohamed. "The audiovisual perception of laughter : the influence of the laughing face upon the laughter sound." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.431862.

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Generally, the thesis reports on a series of eight experiments investigating how the face is communicating laughter, when using spontaneous and dynamic laughter clips. More specifically, the experiments are investigating how the laughing face may aid the ability to hear the laughter sound: an audiovisual laughter effect. The basic methodology was borrowed from the area of audiovisual speech perception, a well established area of research investigating how the speaking face aids the ability to hear the spoken word. Evidence for audiovisual laughter perception was found in each of the eight experiments. However, another question was how the face is aiding the ability to hear the laughter sound. Experiments one and two simultaneously investigated into the possibility of configurational processing in audiovisual laughter. Some evidence was found to this effect in experiment two but not experiment one. Experiments three, four and five simultaneously investigated into the possibility of featural processing in audiovisual laughter. Evidence was found to this effect in each experiment. Experiments six, seven and eight simultaneously investigated into the possibility that dynamic information, rather than static information is intrinsic to the audiovisual laughter effect. Evidence in favour of this possibility was found in each experiment. Overall, the data would appear to suggest the moving mouth is the single most salient feature for audiovisual laughter, with particular importance given to the moving featural detail of the intra-oral region. However, if this information is missing, the remaining parts of the moving laughing face are still able to aid the hearing of the laughter sound. Future research is necessary to further highlight the processes of the new perceptual phenomenon of audio visual laughter.

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Widegren, Johannes. "The Laughter of Literature : A diachronic study of the social functions of laughter in British literature." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-79777.

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This paper investigates the historical development of the social functions of laughter in literature using linguistic analysis. Many previous studies have analyzed the connection between humor and laughter, but very few have looked at laughter in literature. In this paper, using the eight social functions of laughter defined by Foot and McCreaddie (2007), instances of the word laugh and its variants were analyzed in canonical British literature from the 14th century to the 21st and then compared. In the literature investigated, derision laughter was the most common function during the 15th through 17th centuries. In the centuries to follow humorous laughter took that position. An explanation for this could be that there was no clear division between derision laughter and humorous laughter until the 18th century (Classen, 2010). Also noted was an increase in the frequency of instances of laughter per 1000 words since the 17th century in the investigated literature, as well as an increase in variation of social functions used. The low frequency of laughter in the past may have been a result of the teachings of the church in England. The increased variation in functions of laughter could indicate that the pragmatic feature of laughter has acquired new functions, or that some functions were not depicted in the older literature of this study.

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Books on the topic "Laughter"

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Ziolkowski, Steve. Laughter. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.

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1931-2004, Barnes Peter, ed. Laughter! London]: Bloomsbury, 2013.

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Hunter, Charles. Holy laughter. Kingwood, Tex: Hunter Books, 1994.

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Harry, Lilian. Love & laughter. London: BCA, 1998.

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Museu da Electricidade (Lisbon, Portugal), ed. Riso: Laughter. Lisboa, Portugal]: Tinta da China, 2012.

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1943-, Jacobs John C., ed. Literate laughter. Bern, Switzerland: P. Lang, 2002.

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1936-2008, Gray Simon, ed. Hidden laughter. London]: Bloomsbury, 2014.

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Emerson, Earl W. Nervous laughter. New York: Avon, 1986.

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Zandt, William Van. Silent laughter. New York: Samuel French, 2004.

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United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, ed. Rx laughter. Washington, D.C: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1986.

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Book chapters on the topic "Laughter"

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Svebak, Sven. "Laughter." In Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research, 3523–25. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0753-5_1610.

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O’Connell, Daniel C., and Sabine Kowal. "Laughter." In Communicating with One Another, 1–11. New York, NY: Springer New York, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-77632-3_17.

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Rosen, Ralph M. "Laughter." In A Companion to Ancient Aesthetics, 455–71. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781119009795.ch30.

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Caballero, Tawnie, Brett R. Nelson, and Laura Parres. "Laughter." In Encyclopedia of Child Behavior and Development, 868. Boston, MA: Springer US, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-79061-9_1622.

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Diddams, Natalie. "Laughter." In Routledge Companion to Audiences and the Performing Arts, 453–58. London: Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003033226-39.

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Sinclair, Mark. "Laughter." In Bergson, 133–56. 1 [edition]. | New York : Routledge, 2019. | Series: Routledge philosophers: Routledge, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315414935-7.

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Trouvain, Jürgen, and Khiet P. Truong. "Laughter." In The Routledge Handbook of Language and Humor, 340–55. New York, NY : Routledge, [2017] | Series: Routledge handbooks in linguistics: Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315731162-24.

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Graham, Nicole. "Laughter." In Feminism and the Religious Significance of Laughing Bodies, 17–41. London: Routledge, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003365068-2.

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Svebak, Sven. "Laughter." In Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research, 3807–8. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17299-1_1610.

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Bennett, Andrew, and Nicholas Royle. "Laughter." In An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory, 144–55. 6th ed. London: Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003255390-15.

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Conference papers on the topic "Laughter"

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Ryokai, Kimiko, Elena Duran, Dina Bseiso, Noura Howell, and Ji Won Jun. "Celebrating Laughter." In DIS '17: Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2017. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3064857.3079146.

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Hespanhol, Luke. "Interacting with laughter." In the 28th Australian Conference. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3010915.3010931.

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Ryokai, Kimiko, Julia Park, and Wesley Deng. "Personal laughter archives." In UbiComp/ISWC '20: 2020 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and 2020 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3410530.3414419.

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Zarb, Mark, and Michael Scott. "Laughter over Dread." In ITiCSE '19: Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3304221.3325548.

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Ishi, Carlos, Hiroaki Hatano, and Hiroshi Ishiguro. "Audiovisual analysis of relations between laughter types and laughter motions." In Speech Prosody 2016. ISCA, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.21437/speechprosody.2016-165.

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Urbain, Jerome, Huseyin Cakmak, and Thierry Dutoit. "Automatic Phonetic Transcription of Laughter and Its Application to Laughter Synthesis." In 2013 Humaine Association Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII). IEEE, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/acii.2013.32.

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Mansouri, Nadia, and Zied Lachiri. "DNN-based laughter synthesis." In 2019 International Conference on Control, Automation and Diagnosis (ICCAD). IEEE, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/iccad46983.2019.9037953.

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Truong, Khiet P., and David A. van Leeuwen. "Automatic detection of laughter." In Interspeech 2005. ISCA: ISCA, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.21437/interspeech.2005-322.

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Bickley, Corine A., and Sheri Hunnicutt. "Acoustic analysis of laughter." In 2nd International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 1992). ISCA: ISCA, 1992. http://dx.doi.org/10.21437/icslp.1992-284.

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Fukumto, Makoto, and Ryoichi Nagamatsu. "Feedback of Laughter by Detecting Variation in Respiration Amplitude for Augmenting Laughter." In 2016 10th International Conference on Innovative Mobile and Internet Services in Ubiquitous Computing (IMIS). IEEE, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/imis.2016.122.

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