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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 (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 imputati

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Almeida, Abilio, and Helena Sousa. "The Power of Laughter: Emotional and Ideological Gratification in Media." Societies 14, no. 9 (2024): 164. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/soc14090164.

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This study examines the role of laughter in media content, focusing on traditional non-humorous entertainment talk shows with hosts, guests and a studio audience. The analysis, which documents over 20,000 instances of laughter in just 60 episodes (one laugh every 20 s), highlights the central role of laughter in this reality. The study concludes that: (1) hosts laughed more than guests and studio audiences; (2) in the programmes analysed, female hosts generated almost twice as much laughter as male hosts; (3) laughter followed a recognisable ‘U-shaped’ pattern, peaking at the beginning and end

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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 (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 phras

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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 (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 actuall

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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 (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

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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 (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 i

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Gruner, Charles R. "Audience's Response to Jokes in Speeches with and without Recorded Laughs." Psychological Reports 73, no. 1 (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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Hizi, Mohamed Nejib. "The Politics of Laughter in Eugene O’Neill’s Lazarus Laughed." Eugene O'Neill Review 46, no. 1 (2025): 16–44. https://doi.org/10.5325/eugeoneirevi.46.1.0016.

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ABSTRACT Eugene O’Neill’s Lazarus Laughed (1927) is an important incorporation of the Nietzschean philosophy of laughter, essentially as posited in The Birth of Tragedy and Thus Spake Zarathustra. Raised from the dead, Lazarus curiously returns as a Zarathustrian Messiah, preaching among the mobs a laughter springing from a Dionysian exultation and an Apollonian seriousness. O’Neill’s conceptualization of laughter, which has an array of implications, remains, however, a somewhat neglected topic. This article proposes to analyze the political underpinnings of the psychology of laughter in this

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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 (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 durin

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Rodnyi, Oleg V. "LAUGHTER TAXONOMY DISCOURSE IN THE RENAISSANCE LITERARY CONSCIOUSNESS." Alfred Nobel University Journal of Philology 1, no. 23 (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 n

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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 (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 discussio

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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 (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 hap

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Toledo, Jhonna G., and Araceli C. Doromal. "Laughter and Well-Being: The Transformative Experiences of Working Mothers." Philippine Social Science Journal 7, no. 3 (2024): 74–84. https://doi.org/10.52006/main.v7i3.1027.

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This study explores how laughter therapy transforms the experiences of working mothers, impacting their stress, resilience, and well-being. Six participants engaged in unstructured interviews, analyzed through a descriptive phenomenological approach. Findings revealed that both genuine and simulated laughter offer therapeutic benefits, improving optimism, stress management, and sleep. Laughter's contagious nature strengthens social bonds and promotes shared joy. The therapy fosters emotional resilience, enhances health, and nurtures spirituality, contributing to inner peace. Accessible and hol

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Lecón, Mauricio. "What Is Wrong with Laughing? Faulty Laughter as a Case of Negligent Omission." Philosophy of Humor Yearbook 3, no. 1 (2022): 209–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/phhumyb-2022-007.

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Abstract In most academic works laughter is praised because of its social, religious, and psychological benefits. However, when laughter’s morality has been historically discussed it usually has been condemned. To assign human responsibility to the act of laughing, it must be acknowledged as voluntary. However, studies indicate that laughter is not a voluntary action, but rather a neurophysiological reaction. If this is so, there is no basis on which to ground the moral relevance of laughter. In this article, I will put forward an argument that can help to ground the ethics of spontaneous laug

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Yamamoto, Yasunori, Shinya Furukawa, Aki Kato, et al. "The Association between Laughter and Functional Dyspepsia in a Young Japanese Population." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 9 (2022): 5686. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19095686.

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The potential health benefits of laughter are recognized in relation to several chronic diseases. However, no study has yet investigated the association between laughter and functional dyspepsia (FD). The purpose of this study was to investigate this issue in a young Japanese population. Methods: This study was conducted on 8923 Japanese university students. Information on the frequency of laughter and types of laughter-inducing situations, digestive symptoms (Rome III criteria) were obtained through a self-administered, web-based questionnaire. Results: The percentage of respondents who laugh

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Pankowska, Krystyna. "Wokół śmiechu i jego funkcji wspólnotowych w życiu społecznym i w sztuce. Rozważania z perspektywy antropologiczno-pedagogicznej." Nauki o Wychowaniu. Studia Interdyscyplinarne 18, no. 1 (2024): 66–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/2450-4491.18.06.

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The aim of the study which adopts an anthropological and pedagogical perspective is to reflect on the community functions of art that uses comedy eliciting laughter. The subject of interest is therefore comedy-related laughter perceived as a socio-cultural phenomenon. The article examines various forms of comedy that cause laugher, and discusses their conditions and transformations. Selected examples from the field of art (literature, theater, film, visual arts) are used for exemplification. The considerations presented in the text arose from the questions about the reasons for the marginal in

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Jones, Peter J. A. "Laughing with Sacred Things, ca. 1100–1350: A History in Four Objects." Church History 89, no. 4 (2020): 759–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0009640721000019.

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Exploring the range of circumstances in which medieval Christians laughed with, against, at, and through religious topics, this article investigates four objects: an ivory cross, an ampulla of a saint's blood, a preaching codex, and a pilgrim's badge. While these objects are taken to illustrate a diversity of attitudes to religious humor, they are also, in light of recent work citing the productive power of medieval matter, scrutinized as agents in their own right. The article suggests two significant patterns. On the one hand, the objects point to laughter's use as a unique mode of spiritual

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Parvulescu, Anca. "Kafka's Laughter: On Joy and the Kafkaesque." Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 130, no. 5 (2015): 1420–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2015.130.5.1420.

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In a letter Franz Kafka wrote to Felice Bauer in January 1913, he describes himself as a “great laugher.” Although Kafka is conventionally associated with anxiety, gloom, even terror, his laughter is joyful.

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AKASAKA, Norio. "When Tragedy and Laughter Meet." Border Crossings: The Journal of Japanese-Language Literature Studies 16, no. 1 (2023): 4–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.22628/bcjjl.2023.16.1.4.

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Sorrow secretly harbors laughter. In the Japanese literary tradition, there was an indispensable and invisible manner that connects sadness and laughter. There, the experiences of cruelty and resentment or ressentiment seldom gave birth directly to the literature of grief. It is necessary to observe the fate of the weak closely.Kadokawa Genyoshi’s “The emergence of tragic literature (Higeki Bungaku no Hassei)” is a pioneering study about the occurrence of tragedy in Japanese literature. Although Orikuchi Shinobu had a great influence on this work, it was the originality of Genyoshi himself, an

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Simon, Elliott M. "Thomas More’s Humor in his Religious Polemics." Moreana 53 (Number 203-, no. 1-2 (2016): 7–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/more.2016.53.1-2.3.

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Thomas More’s humor was influenced by his studies of Greek Old and New Comedy and Lucian’s Dialogues. He was fascinated by the multiple ways human follies could be exposed to provoke laughter. Although aware of the “anti-laughter” tradition of the Early Church Fathers, he asserted that the intellectual, moral, and spiritual superiority of “the man who laughed” justified using humor to provoke “critical laughter” as an effective rhetorical strategy to ridicule the comic incongruities and corruption of “the inferior man who was laughed at.” In his religious polemics: Responsio ad Lutherum, Suppl

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Ramos, Iván A. "Breaking Down, Breaking Together: Xandra Ibarra’s Nude Laughing and the Violence of the Encounter." differences 36, no. 1 (2025): 66–86. https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-11788704.

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This essay considers the fragility of social relations through an understudied action that reveals the limits of sociality: laughter. In Latina artist Xandra Ibarra’s performance piece Nude Laughing, the artist’s manic fit of laughter goes on for several minutes, suggesting that to face the contorted body of another subject laughing is to face the uneasy reality of encounter. Analyzing three iterations of Nude Laughing across geographic locales, the essay focuses in particular on a performance in Mexico City that culminated in an act of male aggression. The author reads this instance of woman’

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Monin, Joan, Jennifer Tomlinson, and Brooke Feeney. "Laughter and Short-Term Blood Pressure Reactivity in Spousal Support Interactions." Innovation in Aging 4, Supplement_1 (2020): 649. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.2236.

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Abstract Individual effects of laughter in reducing stress are well-documented. However, no research has examined dyadic associations between laughter and blood pressure in spousal support interactions. This study examined the hypotheses that individual and shared laughter would be associated with lower blood pressure and distress during a support interaction for both the “support-seeker” and the “support-provider”. Two hundred and seventy-one older adult couples were video-recorded and their blood pressure was monitored during a baseline, a discussion about the support-seeker’s greatest fear

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Mežek, Špela. "Laughter and humour in high-stakes academic ELF interactions: an analysis of laughter episodes in PhD defences/vivas." Journal of English as a Lingua Franca 7, no. 2 (2018): 261–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jelf-2018-0014.

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Abstract This study investigates the uses and functions of laughter and humour in a corpus of nine PhD defences/vivas. The data include the PhD defences in their entirety, including monologic and dialogic talk by participants from a variety of research cultures. The defences were video-recorded and transcribed, and laughter episodes analysed according to who laughed, who the source of “the laughable” was, what the reason for laughing was and at what point laughter occurred. The analysis reveals that a majority of laughter was non-humorous, produced by one person, and had the function of mitiga

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Halliwell, Stephen. "The Uses of Laughter in Greek Culture." Classical Quarterly 41, no. 2 (1991): 279–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0009838800004468.

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The proposition that man is the only animal capable of laughter is at least as old as Aristotle (Parts of Animals 673a8). In a strictly physical sense, this is probably false; but it is undoubtedly true that as a psychologically expressive and socially potent means of communication, laughter is a distinctively human phenomenon. Any attempt to study sets of cultural attitudes towards laughter, or the particular types of personal conduct which these attitudes shape and influence, must certainly adopt a wider perspective than a narrowly physical definition of laughter will allow. Throughout this

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Ruch, Willibald, and Sonja Heintz. "On the dimensionality of humorous conduct and associations with humor traits and behaviors." HUMOR 32, no. 4 (2019): 643–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/humor-2018-0119.

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Abstract The aim of the present study is to explore higher-order dimensions of humorous conduct derived from 100 non-redundant and comprehensive statements. These dimensions are validated in self- and other-reports and their criterion validity is assessed by relating them to other humor concepts (temperamental basis of the sense of humor, attitudes towards laughter and being laughed at, humor appreciation and creation). Four broad dimensions (mean-spirited/earthy, entertaining, inept, and reflective/benign) were supported in self- and other-reports, and two narrower dimensions (laughter and ca

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Orlova, N. V., and O. E. Bogomolova. "WHAT'S SO FUNNY? A COMPARATIVE LOOK AT THE HUMOROUS INTENTIONS OF THE TEXTBOOK AND THE STUDENT." Bulletin of Kemerovo State University, no. 3 (July 28, 2016): 63–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.21603/2078-8975-2016-3-63-69.

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A section of a school textbook on literary reading “Jokingly and seriously” was compared with the written memories of 3rd-grade students of “Lyceum № 29” (Omsk) about the situations in which they laughed. The objects of comparison were such aspects of humorous discourse as the object of the ridicule, the tone of the comic, values and concepts; the presence/absence of humor in the linguistic component. General research approach is the discourse analysis. A positive correlation between age features of the humor, the humorous intentions of the textbook and interview data were revealed, which allo

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Chapell, Mark, Michael Batten, Jael Brown, et al. "Frequency of Public Laughter in Relation to Sex, Age, Ethnicity, and Social Context." Perceptual and Motor Skills 95, no. 3 (2002): 746. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pms.2002.95.3.746.

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This study investigated the frequency of public laughter in a total of 10,419 children, adolescents, young adults, middle-aged adults, and older adults. Females laughed significantly more than males, and younger people generally laughed more than older people.

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Adebiyi-Adelabu, Kazeem. "Dictatorship, Trauma, and Scriptotherapy in Remi Raji’s A Harvest of Laughters." Research in African Literatures 53, no. 4 (2023): 75–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/reseafrilite.53.4.06.

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ABSTRACT: This article examines how Remi Raji, a third-generation Nigerian poet, reenacts the social pains and “dis-eases” of the military dictatorship era in Nigeria in A Harvest of Laughters as traumatogenic, as well as how the poet writes himself out of the trauma. While the article espouses the extant critical notion that the poet offers laughter to the victims of structural violence, social pains, and “dis-eases” of the military rule era in the country as a balm, it complicates the view by arguing that the poet’s versification in the volume and, more importantly, his infatuated exploratio

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Adebiyi-Adelabu, Kazeem. "Dictatorship, Trauma, and Scriptotherapy in Remi Raji’s A Harvest of Laughters." Research in African Literatures 53, no. 4 (2023): 75–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/ral.2023.a905362.

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ABSTRACT: This article examines how Remi Raji, a third-generation Nigerian poet, reenacts the social pains and “dis-eases” of the military dictatorship era in Nigeria in A Harvest of Laughters as traumatogenic, as well as how the poet writes himself out of the trauma. While the article espouses the extant critical notion that the poet offers laughter to the victims of structural violence, social pains, and “dis-eases” of the military rule era in the country as a balm, it complicates the view by arguing that the poet’s versification in the volume and, more importantly, his infatuated exploratio

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Biraben, A., E. Sartori, D. Taussig, A. M. Bernard, and J. M. Scarabin. "Gelastic seizures: video‐EEG and scintigraphic analysis of a case with a frontal focus; review of the literature and pathophysiological hypotheses." Epileptic Disorders 1, no. 4 (1999): 221–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1684/j.1950-6945.1999.tb00328.x.

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ABSTRACT We report scalp EEG and SPECT findings in a young patient who experienced gelastic seizures; clinical, EEG and scintigraphic data strongly suggested a frontal focus in a context of cryptogenic epilepsy. Few cases of gelastic seizures originating in the frontal lobe have been reported in the literature, most of them involving a diencephalic hamartoma or a temporal focus although, no clinical pattern has been found to be specific for each of these three anatomical regions. The ictal laughter is of variable nature, unmotivated or associated with feelings of mirth, forced or natural, exce

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Westburg, Nancy G. "Hope, Laughter, and Humor in Residents and Staff at an Assisted Living Facility." Journal of Mental Health Counseling 25, no. 1 (2003): 16–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.17744/mehc.25.1.g128feq7x21xxbfe.

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Possessing hope and utilizing laughter and humor to cope with life's stressors and losses are especially important to elderly people as they experience a decline in their independence. In this study, hope levels and laughter and humor experiences of 24 elderly residents (ages 69 to 96 years) and 21 staff at an assisted living facility were assessed and compared. Hope was defined as a two-factor cognitive construct that involves (a) Pathways, an individual's ability to set goals and devise multiple plans to reach them, and (b) Agency, an individual's inner determination to implement these plans

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Weeks, Mark. "Affect philosophy meets incongruity: about transformative potentials in comic laughter." European Journal of Humour Research 8, no. 1 (2020): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.7592/ejhr2020.8.1.weeks.

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The emergence of philosophical affect theory, sourced substantially in Continental philosophy, has intensified scholarly attention around affective potentials in laughter. However, the relationship between laughter’s affect and the comic remains a complicated one for researchers, with some maintaining that the two should be studied separately (Emmerson 2019, Parvulescu 2010). While there is a credible academic rationale for drawing precise distinctions, the present article takes an integrative approach to laughter and the comic. It analyzes, then synthesizes, points of convergence between key

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Răban-Motounu, Nicoleta. "LAUGHTER AND EMPATHY." Current Trends in Natural Sciences 10, no. 20 (2021): 192–202. http://dx.doi.org/10.47068/ctns.2021.v10i20.026.

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At a biological level, laughter was found to help in dealing with pain and suffering. From a psychological perspective, its effects have been studied both at intrapersonal and interpersonal levels. At an intrapersonal level, laughter contributes to self-regulating emotions (especially lowering the trait anxiety), diminishing the expression of anger, internally or externally, the same time with increasing self-acceptance. At interpersonal level, laughing together builds trust, while being laughed at may be traumatic. In the present study, the objective was to investigate the effects of laughter

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McKenzie, Kevin. "Vicissitudes of laughter." Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) 27, no. 2 (2017): 257–300. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/prag.27.2.04mck.

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Abstract This paper is concerned with the way that laughter is employed to manage threats to interlocutor affiliation in talk among humanitarian aid workers as they describe their professional activities in settings of armed conflict. I first set out to situate my analysis within the tradition of work in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis (EM), exploring how that approach differs in significant ways from work in pragmatics and related traditions of discourse analytic research. Unlike the latter approaches, EM examines laughter for the intelligibility it is deployed by speakers to furni

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Lundberg, Anna. "Laughter." lambda nordica 26, no. 4-1 (2022): 188–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.34041/ln.v26.770.

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&NA;. "LAUGHTER." Gastroenterology Nursing 35, no. 2 (2012): 135–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/sga.0b013e31824ed403.

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Ror Wolf and Eva Bourke. "Laughter." Sirena: poesia, arte y critica 2010, no. 1 (2010): 89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sir.0.0324.

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McMurray, Janice. "Laughter." Activities, Adaptation & Aging 14, no. 1-2 (1989): 123–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j016v14n01_21.

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Benzel, Ed. "Laughter." World Neurosurgery 184 (April 2024): xix. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wneu.2024.02.080.

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Farfán Cabrera, Teresa, and Javier Meza G. "From wild laughter to domesticated laughter." Tramas. Subjetividad y procesos sociales, no. 58 (June 1, 2022): 189–216. http://dx.doi.org/10.24275/tramas/uamx/202258189-218.

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Nieland, Justus. "Editor's Introduction: Modernism's Laughter." Modernist Cultures 2, no. 2 (2006): 80–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/e2041102209000203.

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This special issue of Modernist Cultures is animated by two claims. First, that modernism is funny, and the moderns inveterate laughers, gigglers, joke-pullers, and devastating wags. Second, that modernism's ubiquitous laughter is overlooked, undertheorized, and downright gagged by the aura of high seriousness that still infuses critical descriptions of modernism: of its heroic gambits to shore up a besieged world of authenticity, plenitude, and presence; of its aristocratic disdain for the enervating banality of quotidian modernity; of its arch and unfeeling formalism.

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Ivanova, Alyona, Ekaterina Stefanenko, and Sergey Enikolopov. "Russian attitudes towards humour and laughter." European Journal of Humour Research 5, no. 2 (2017): 80. http://dx.doi.org/10.7592/ejhr2017.5.2.ivanova.

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Different phenomena related to humour and laughter, such as humour styles, gelotophobia, gelotophilia and katagelasticism, were investigated in a series of psychological studies in Russia. As far as the samples were rather heterogeneous in regard with age, gender, region of Russia, and included besides big cities also small towns and villages, the data allows to discuss not only psychological, but also a certain cultural perspective. It is concluded that self-defeating humour style plays an important role in the structure of Russian cultural attitude towards humour and laughter. The most adapt

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Hanks, Elizabeth. "A cross-linguistic comparison of the propositional content of laughter in American English and Central Thai." Intercultural Pragmatics 19, no. 2 (2022): 233–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ip-2022-2004.

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Abstract Research suggests that laughter can serve several communicative functions beyond indicating mirth, and as such, may hold propositional meaning. The present study analyzes cross-linguistic differences in the propositional content of laughter in American English and Central Thai television shows. A framework for classifying laughter by propositional content was first developed by drawing on existing literature and bottom-up analysis of the laughter found in American English and Thai shows. The framework includes categories of positive valency, negative valency, and humor, along with sub

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Rosyid, Nur, and Dhimas Unggul Laksita. "The Aural Experience of Laughing and the Sociality of Sound (Re)Production in Communication." Komunitas 10, no. 2 (2018): 213–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.15294/komunitas.v10i2.8428.

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This paper explores laugh as an aural and hearing experience in our everyday communication. So far, most of studies understood laugher by its causality explanation and has been paying less attention to the context that laughter is a form of non-verbal and aural experience. We assume that laughter has certain indexicality dimension and social significance to convey meanings and certain sociality in communication. This research tries to develop the method to use audio/ sound in research and how it will be presented in our academic writing and discourses. This study uses ethnographic methods to e

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Nsabi, Farah, Amal Essafi, Imane Agdai, Ouissal Redouane, Adil El Ammouri, and Yassine Benhaddouche. "WHEN LAUGHTER GAS NO LONGER BRINGS LAUGHTER." International Journal of Advanced Research 11, no. 12 (2023): 803–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.21474/ijar01/18047.

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Introduction: Nitrous oxide (N2O), also dubbed the laughing gas or proto, is a gas used therapeutically in the medical field. However, a recreational trend has emerged, involving the inhalation of N2O from culinary capsules or canisters. Clinical Case: This involves a 23-year-old patient, Hospitalized for psychomotor agitation, the patient has a history of cardiac arrest following extensive inhalation of laughing gas. The patient presented with a manic syndrome that resolved within 2 days. Biological tests returned normal results, including vitamin B12. Brain MRI revealed bilateral bi-fronto-p

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Nam, Sung-sook. "Morrison's Laughter: Function of Language and Weapon of Discourse." Convergence English Language & Literature Association 8, no. 3 (2023): 1–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.55986/cell.2023.8.3.1.

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Morrison's laughter is different from that of any other literary work. Morrison uses laughter as a weapon for a discourse that dismantles the contradictions of Western conventions built up by dichotomous and rationalistic thinking. She uses laughter as a linguistic function to represent her discourse and a weapon of the discourse. By presenting the characteristics of African American laughter, that is, autonomous, unconscious, lasting for a long time, having a healing function, and combining with tears and dance, Morrison proves cultural differences and also shows the linguistic function of la

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Rahman, Md Shahinoor, and Farida Binte Wali. "The effect of laughter yoga on working memory." European Journal of Humour Research 10, no. 3 (2022): 78–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.7592/ejhr.2022.10.3.597.

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A growing body of evidence suggests that there is a link between laughter and memory. However, no research has been done to show a link between simulated laughter (laughter yoga) and the enhancement of working memory. Because laughter has numerous benefits, we examined whether simulated laughter can improve healthy adults’ working memory (WM). A total of 30 participants (15 experimental and 15 control) were enrolled in this study. The research design was experimental and pretest-posttest with a control group. Participants in the laughter yoga intervention group had eight sessions twice a week

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Vershyna, V. A., and O. V. Mykhailiuk. "Laughter as a Semiotic Problem." Anthropological Measurements of Philosophical Research, no. 20 (December 28, 2021): 5–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.15802/ampr.v0i20.248949.

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Purpose. The article is aimed to substantiate the view on the phenomenon of laughter as a subject of semiotic analysis, which leads to the following tasks: to reveal the possibilities of semiotics application in the study of laughter nature; to analyze the phenomenon of laughter as a cultural and natural phenomenon, as a sign and as an attribute; to consider the place of laughter in culture, which is understood as a sign system. Theoretical basis. The semiotic approach proceeds from the fact that human lives in the world of signs, all the surrounding reality can be interpreted as a sign system

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Vershyna, V. A., and O. V. Mykhailiuk. "Laughter as a Semiotic Problem." Anthropological Measurements of Philosophical Research, no. 20 (December 28, 2021): 5–15. https://doi.org/10.15802/ampr.v0i20.248949.

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<strong>Purpose.</strong> The article is aimed to substantiate the view on the phenomenon of laughter as a subject of semiotic analysis, which leads to the following tasks: to reveal the possibilities of semiotics application in the study of laughter nature; to analyze the phenomenon of laughter as a cultural and natural phenomenon, as a sign and as an attribute; to consider the place of laughter in culture, which is understood as a sign system. <strong>Theoretical basis.</strong> The semiotic approach proceeds from the fact that human lives in the world of signs, all the surrou

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Brown, Judith. "A Certain Laughter: Sherwood Anderson's Experiment in Form." Modernist Cultures 2, no. 2 (2006): 138–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/e2041102209000240.

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Judith Brown (Indiana University - Bloomington) reads Sherwood Anderson's 1925 novel “Dark Laughter” in the context of the explosion of theoretical treatments of laughter that emerge in the early 1920s in the traumatic wake of the Great War. Recuperating the disruptive potential of modernist laughter, Brown reads the novel through the scene of redemptive collective laughter that concludes Preston Sturges' film “Sullivan's Travels” (1941). Whereas Sturges offers the salve of a collective laughter as a fantasy of nondifferentiation from laughing others, Andersons dark laughter preserves the unce

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