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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.<br>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

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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 o

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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 Secti

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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 expe

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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 thr

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Kelen, Christopher, University of Western Sydney, and School of Communication and Media. "Metabusiness : poetics of haunting and laughter." THESIS_XXX_SCM_Kelen_C.xml, 1998. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/542.

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This thesis deals with the writing process in poetry. It consists of two types of text – theoretical and poetic. This thesis asks, for the purposes of a poetics of writing, what knowledge of language poetry requires. Questions as to the sources of poetry are resolved as questions asked of the ethics in which writing is possible. Poetry is that discourse which stands out of the bivalency of judgement, constituting, as speech does in its unending, the delay of freedom. Tropology is structure with which to represent the world, and by limitless tropology we inscribe the manner and scope of poetry’

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WEEKS, MARK. "Freud and the Economics of Laughter." 名古屋大学大学院国際言語文化研究科, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/7842.

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Petridis, Stavros. "Audiovisual discrimination between laughter and speech." Thesis, Imperial College London, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.549710.

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Laughter is clearly an audiovisual event, consisting of the laughter vocalisation and involving facial activity around the mouth. Past research on automatic laughter classification has focused mainly on audio-based approaches. In this thesis we integrate the information from audio and video channels and show that this fusion may lead to improved performance over unimodal approaches. We investigated different types of audiovisual fusion, temporal modelling and feature sets in order to find the best combination. A novel approach to combine audio and visual information based on prediction is also

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Kelen, Christopher. "Metabusiness : poetics of haunting and laughter." Thesis, View thesis, 1998. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/542.

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This thesis deals with the writing process in poetry. It consists of two types of text – theoretical and poetic. This thesis asks, for the purposes of a poetics of writing, what knowledge of language poetry requires. Questions as to the sources of poetry are resolved as questions asked of the ethics in which writing is possible. Poetry is that discourse which stands out of the bivalency of judgement, constituting, as speech does in its unending, the delay of freedom. Tropology is structure with which to represent the world, and by limitless tropology we inscribe the manner and scope of poetry’

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Kelen, Christopher. "Metabusiness : poetics of haunting & laughter /." View thesis, 1998. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20030905.115414/index.html.

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Thesis (PhD. Philosophy) -- University of Western Sydney, Nepean, 1998.<br>"Submitted in fulfilment of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the School of Communication and Media, University of Western Sydney, Nepean" Bibliography : p. 358-373.

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Millard, John F. "Laughter as sense, a study of meaning." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0008/NQ58659.pdf.

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Cook, Jonathan Neil. "The Carnivalesque Laughter of Flannery O?Connor." NCSU, 2006. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04212006-002139/.

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Critics often point out the incongruity between Flannery O?Connor?s grotesque humor and her self-proclaimed Christian purpose. This paper uses Mikhail Bakhtin?s conception of the carnivalesque to argue that O?Connor?s use of grotesque humor is essential to her purpose. Both O?Connor and Bakhtin distrust all-encompassing ideologies that claim to authoritatively categorize and explain existence. In the carnivalesque laughter created by the grotesque realism of Rabelais, Bakhtin finds a way to undermine worldviews that claim ultimate authority. Similarly, O?Connor uses concrete and grotesque, but

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Hayakawa, Hiruko. "The meaningless laugh : laughter in Japanese communication /." Connect to full text, 2003. http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/adt/public_html/adt-NU/public/adt-NU20050104.144246/index.html.

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Leone, Matthew J. (Matthew Joseph). "The shape of openness : Bakhtin, Lawrence, laughter." Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=39750.

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How is Bakhtin's conception of novelistic openness distinct from modernist-dialectical irresolution or open-endedness? Is Women in Love a Bakhtinian "open totality"? How is dialogic openness (as opposed to modernist indeterminacy) a "form-shaping ideology" of comic interrogation?<br>This study tests whether dialogism illuminates the shape of openness in Lawrence. As philosophers of potentiality, both Bakhtin and Lawrence explore the dialogic "between" as a state of being and a condition of meaningful fiction. Dialogism informs Women in Love. It achieves a polyphonic openness which Lawrence in

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Ward, Matthew. "The sound of laughter in Romantic poetry." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/6814.

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This thesis offers the first critical examination of the sound of laughter in Romantic poetry. Part one locates laughter in the history of ideas of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and explores the interplay between laughter and key intellectual, aesthetic, ethical, and social issues in the Romantic period. I chart a development in thinking about laughter from its primary association with ridicule and the passions up to the early decades of the eighteenth century, to its emerging symbiosis with politeness and aesthetic judgement, before a reassertion of laughter's signification of pas

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Hayakawa, Haruko. "The Meaningless Laugh: Laughter in Japanese Communication." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/656.

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This thesis explores the functions of laughter in Japanese communication. In orientation it contrasts markedly with previous studies and is the first study to have been based on such a large volume of data. In this paper I have focused on laughter as it serves to maintain a co-operative relationship between the participants in a conversation. I find that in the process of communication, people necessarily have to lay themselves open to others, and in doing so they become conscious of the barrier surrounding and protecting their field, i.e. their 'inner world'. I hypothesise that in Japanese at

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Hayakawa, Haruko. "The Meaningless Laugh: Laughter in Japanese Communication." University of Sydney. Japanese and Korean Studies School of Language and Cultures, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/656.

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This thesis explores the functions of laughter in Japanese communication. In orientation it contrasts markedly with previous studies and is the first study to have been based on such a large volume of data. In this paper I have focused on laughter as it serves to maintain a co-operative relationship between the participants in a conversation. I find that in the process of communication, people necessarily have to lay themselves open to others, and in doing so they become conscious of the barrier surrounding and protecting their field, i.e. their �inner world�. I hypothesise that in Japanese at

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Yancey, Jason Edward. "Dark Laughter: Liminal Sins in Quevedo's Entremeses." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/195236.

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This dissertation investigates two areas rarely treated in Early Modern studies. First, it explores the origins, functions and importance of the entremes as a performance genre historically relegated to what Victor Turner has called the "liminal" spaces of social and scholarly discourse. These marginalized places of ambiguity in between one space and another provide the artist with a less restrictive creative setting in which to explore the otherwise difficult and even unmentionable social themes. Literally placed in between acts of the comedia performance experience, as well as chronologic

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Shumway, Jacob Holt. ""Laughter Is Part of My War Effort": The Harmonizing and Humanizing Influences of Laughter in Andrea Levy's Small Island." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2018. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/7435.

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Most critical analyses of humor in postcolonial literary settings have focused on its power to critique and subvert dominant hegemonic systems in ways that tend to divide participants according to predictable dichotomies. Yet humor theorists have long recognized laughter's equivalent potential as a bonding mechanism. An examination of the rhetorical functions of humor in Andrea Levy'sSmall Islandreveals the extent to which these affiliative forms of humor can be successfully deployed across cultural divides within a migrant context, as well as the risks and limitations inherent to such an appr

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Namba, Ayako. "Listenership in Japanese interaction : the contributions of laughter." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/5985.

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This thesis contributes to the body of research on listenership. It accomplishes this through an investigation of the functions of laughter in the listening behaviour of participants in Japanese interaction. The majority of studies concerning conversational interactions have focused on the role of the speaker rather than on that of the listener. Notable work on the listener's active role in conversation includes research done by Goffman (1981), Goodwin (1986) and Gardner (2001). Laughter research has shifted from an early interest in the causes of laughter to an interest in how it is organised

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Crangle, Sara Katherine. "Mortal infinites : modernist knowing, boredom, laughter, and anticipation." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.613715.

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Reeves, Kate. "Laughter and madness in post-war American fiction." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2000. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/4521/.

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Two philosophical positions seem evident in post-war American fiction: one realist, one anti-realist. Using the terms 'revelation' and 'apocalypse' to reflect the former, and 'entropy' the latter, this thesis proposes that distinctions between the two can be made by analysis of a text's treatment of the nexus between laughter and madness. After an Overview that identifies and defines key terms, the Introduction considers various theoretical treatments of laughter from which its function can be ascertained as being both to reinforce stability within social groups and to explore new alternatives

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Mazzocconi, Chiara. "Laughter in interaction : semantics, pragmatics, and child development." Thesis, Université de Paris (2019-....), 2019. https://theses.md.univ-paris-diderot.fr/MAZZOCCONI_Chiara_va2.pdf.

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Le rire est une vocalisation universelle à travers les cultures et les langues. Il est omniprésent dans nos dialogues et utilisé pour un large éventail de fonctions. Le rire a été étudié sous plusieurs angles, mais les classifications proposées sont difficiles à intégrer dans un même système. Malgré le fait qu’il soit crucial dans nos interactions quotidiennes, le rire en conversation a reçu peu d’attention et les études sur la pragmatique du rire en interaction, ses corrélats neuronaux perceptuels et son développement chez l’enfant sont rares. Dans cette thèse, est proposé un nouveau cadre po

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Walker, James Cody. "O ho alas alas : poetry and difficult laughter /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9354.

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Adédínà, Fémi A. "Death's laughter (novel) and crafting a novel (exegesis)." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2011. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/388.

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This thesis consists of a creative component, a novel, Death’s laughter and an exegetical essay, Crafting a novel. The novel centres on a true Nigerian story: a Pentecostal pastor, who died in a plane crash, was a government official found out to have amassed large sums of money and assets that were far greater than could be accrued from his modest salary. In addition, he was accused of bigamy because he had two wives who did not know each other in two different cities within the country. This basic story serves as the nucleus of the novel. The novel tells the stories of various characters who

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Sherlock, Benjamin. "No joke : theorising laughter from Charles Baudelaire to Arthur Koestler." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2012. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=186103.

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This thesis examines the responses of several thinkers to the question of laughter according to a thematic division of critical concerns. A reflexive focus is adopted querying the diversity of such responses. Contextual assumptions are considered as crucially informing each individual interpretation. Laughter is here approached from three distinct perspectives each treated in three respective chapters. 1. ‘Laughter, Society and Play’ interrogates those border territories where laughter arises. Arthur Koestler here initiates an examination of laughter’s social or formal determinants which takes

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Dalla, Costa Dario. "The complexities of farce : with a case study on Fawlty Towers." University of Western Australia. English, Communications and Cultural Studies Discipline Group, 2004. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2004.0063.

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This thesis will counter the argument that farce is a simplistic dramatic form low in the theatrical hierarchy and demonstrate that it is both complex and multifaceted. It will be shown to have a long history and to have influenced many different dramatic forms. The thesis is in two sections. The first will explore farce in general, and the second will use the sitcom Fawlty Towers as a case study in order to explore the televisual mode and its relevance to the contemporary context. The question “What is farce?” will be answered in detail, thus developing an unambiguous perception of the genre

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Plaza, Maria. "Laughter and derision in Petronius' Satyrica : a literary study." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, 2000. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-70112.

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Jansen, Henry. "Laughter among the ruins : postmodern comic approaches to suffering /." Frankfurt am Main [u.a.] : Lang, 2001. http://www.gbv.de/dms/bs/toc/324707363.pdf.

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Taylor, Paul Alan. "Theories of laughter and the production of television comedy." Thesis, University of Leicester, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/8433.

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In order to examine the context of entertainment (through studying the particular form of television situation comedy) it was felt necessary to review the literature referring to humour in general. Chapters 2, 3, and 4 look at contributions from the fields of psychology, philosophy, and sociology. Psychology has little to offer if an understanding of the mass media is sought; philosophy places man in society but concentrates on the individual perception of humour; ‘sociology’ confirms the useful concept of comedy as dealing with values and conventions. The audience may be asked to laugh at wha

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Alessandrini, J. L. "Jörg Wickram's Rollwagenbüchlein : a study of laughter and narrative." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2014. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1443882/.

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The phenomenon of laughter in early modern narrative texts is central to literary and cultural history. Particularly rich sources of laughter are early modern collections of German secular short prose narrative, known as ‘Schwanksammlungen’ (1555-1565) that were read for entertainment and pleasure. Such comic (anecdotal) tales, narrated in ways that appear to reproduce the language used by ordinary people, offer literary historians a deeper insight into contemporary understanding and appreciation of laughter in literature. This thesis offers a fresh reading of the motif of laughter in Jörg Wic

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Leister, Wiebke. "Unjoyful laughter and the non-likeness of photographic portraiture." Thesis, Royal College of Art, 2006. http://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/13247/.

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This research investigates photographic portraits that can be considered as potentially non-mimetic images. It uses the portrait of laughter in theory and in practice to explore a ́non-like ́, iconic relation between a photograph and its model. In opposition to portraying a specific laughing sitter, here the photograph is more informed by what the viewer brings to his or her subjective encounter with that photograph. Among other subjects, my research compares portraiture to clownish performance. Hence, the photographic portrait shifts register, becoming less a likeness of the sitter, rather a

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Hatzipapas, Irene. "Exploring experiences of care-workers participating in laughter therapy." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/31603.

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The study seeks to explore the experiences of care workers participating in laughter therapy. Community care workers play a vital role in the support of the HIV/AIDS infected and affected members of the community. However, the nature of this type of work contributes to high levels of emotional distress such as depression, anxiety and stress. The purpose of the study is 1) to explore the effects of working with orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) on the care workers and their experiences of participating in laughter therapy; and 2) the effects of laughter therapy on care workers’ levels of de

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Jones, Errin. "Humour and laughter in children with autism spectrum disorders." Thesis, University of Ballarat, 2009. http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/40358.

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Studying humour and laughter in children with ASDs can provide unique insights into their socio-communicative impairments, and aid in the development of effective interventions. The current study investigated humour and laughter in 16 school-aged children with autism and Asperger Syndrome (AS).<br>Doctor of Psychology (Clinical)

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Deal, John G. "The Effects of Humor and Laughter on Induced Anxiety." W&M ScholarWorks, 1990. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625636.

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Molchan, Deidre Gayl. "Laughter Frequency, Pain Perception, and Affect in Fibromyalgia Patients." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/6069.

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Fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS), a common chronic pain condition, is often incompletely treated by conventional medical therapies. It can cause disability, psychological distress, work-related absenteeism, increased use of healthcare resources, and result in the inability to carry out the tasks of daily living. The purpose of this quantitative, correlational study was to investigate the potential influence of laughter on affect and pain in individuals with FMS. Laughter produces beneficial effects on acute pain and on chronic pain in general and has been found to improve temporary affective states

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Knight, Naomi K. "Laughing our bonds off: Conversational humour in relation to affiliation." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/6656.

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The laughter that proliferates in casual conversation between friends indicates that humour is a common device in talk that does important social work. However, this humour does not involve recognisable joking structures but rather highly implicit meanings that are interpreted only by those who appear to be “in on the joke”. This thesis considers the functions of this “unfunny” type of humour, called convivial conversational humour, by focusing on the social relations at stake in conversations between friends in the Canadian context. Through a functional discourse analysis (Martin & Rose, 2007

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Malick, Neeraj. "The politics of laughter : a study of Sean O'Casey's drama." Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=39493.

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This is a study of popular festive laughter in Sean O'Casey's drama. It argues that O'Casey's use of the strategies of laughter is an integral part of his political vision. The concept of festive laughter is derived from the theory of Mikhail Bakhtin, and is related, in this thesis, to the culture of low life in O'Casey's Dublin. Through a detailed analysis of O'Casey's plays, this study shows how the forms of laughter function to interrogate the hegemonic political, economic, and cultural discourses of the Irish society of his time. The Dublin trilogy counters the nationalist ideology and its

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Mather, Nigel Derek. "'Tears of laughter' : 1990s British cinema in the comic mode." Thesis, University of Kent, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.410597.

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Zobkiw, Jacob Charles. "Political strategies of laughter in the National Convention, 1792-1794." Thesis, University of Hull, 2015. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:12370.

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Doove, Edith M. "Laughter, inframince and cybernetics : exploring the curatorial as creative act." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/10382.

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This thesis identifies and responds to a contemporary impasse in the curatorial, which is thought of as the realm that encompasses curating as a complex action and interaction; a verb that includes the conceiving, organising and executing of exhibitions as well as critical thinking around curation as a discipline. The current impasse in curation the thesis responds to is caused, on the one hand, through its rapid expansion since the late 1980s and, on the other, through its mainstream and populist appropriation, which confuses understandings of it. The thesis proposes a strategy for the recove

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Woods, Barbara Jane Simmons. "Mirthful Laughter and Directed Relaxation: a Comparison of Physiological Response." Thesis, North Texas State University, 1985. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc331273/.

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The differences among certain physiological changes occurring in response to mirthful laughter, directed relaxation, and verbal speech were investigated. These changes included amount of muscle tension, as measured with surface electromyography, in the forehead and in the upper body as recorded from the forearms bilaterally, peripheral surface skin temperature, heart rate, and respiration rate. The study sought to determine whether the net effect of laughter, as measured on these five variables after a three-minute refractory period, is a more relaxed state than existed before the laughter. De

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Peterson, Anna I. "Laughter in the Exchange: Lucian's Invention of the Comic Dialogue." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1275416015.

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Izzo, Francesco. "Laughter between two revolutions : opera buffa in Italy, 1831-1848 /." Ann Arbor (Mich.) : UMI, 2005. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb400428616.

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Wiklinski, Barbara Cartnick. "Has humor a meaning for persons adapting to a cancer experience? : a phenomenological question /." Access Digital Full Text version, 1993. http://pocketknowledge.tc.columbia.edu/home.php/bybib/11547066.

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Thesis (Ed.D.)--Teachers College, Columbia University, 1993.<br>Typescript; issued also on microfilm. Sponsor: Keville Frederickson. Dissertation Committee: Maxine Greene. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 197-206).

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