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Showing 1 to 20 of 115 for “"laughter"”.
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On laughter
… to the Aesthetic experiences. The phenomena of laughter and comedy have largely been passed over as “too subjective” or highly emotive and therefore resistant to philosophical analysis, because they do not easily lend themselves to the imposition of Absolutist or strongly theory-driven …
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Classifying Laughter: An Exploration Of The Identification and Acoustic Features of Laughter Types
… thesis seeks to improve the classification of laughter by uncovering its purpose in communication, identifiability, and acoustic features. Reviewing the existing literature, this paper identifies three main types of laughter: affiliative, de-escalative, and power. Consulting with research …
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Iambe and Baubo: A Study in Ritual Laughter
The thesis provides an exploration of the cultural semantics of the myth of Iambe/Baubo. It reconsiders the primary sources and outlines the problems involved. A cross-cultural approach to the subject permits a discussion of the Greek myth in the broader framework of comparative folklore and …
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Nietzsche and Comedy: Provocative Laughter Amidst a Tragic Philosophy
… Nietzsche is equally clear that comedy and laughter too are ways to embrace the truth of tragic wisdom and vie for that space that pessimism would otherwise haunt. In this work which examines three key texts that span Nietzsche's productive life--The Birth of Tragedy, The Gay Science, and …
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Unjoyful Laughter and the Non-Likeness of Photographic Portraiture
… 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 …
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The Effects of Laughter Yoga on Second Grade Math Achievement
… of this study was to investigate the effects of laughter yoga on the mathematic achievement of second grade students as measured by the math Mock Criterion Reference Competency Test (CRCT). According to Hoffman (2008), laughter can provide positive benefits to children and adults impacted by …
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Modernism's laughing bodies: a taxonomy of the phenomenology of laughter
This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2016-11-30 at 16:34.
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Joy and laughter in the therapy room: a grounded theory study
… research project investigated moments of joy and laughter during therapy sessions when these occur simultaneously between a therapist and a client. In the context of this study, joy and laughter moments were considered as heightened affective moments that play an important part in the organisation …
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In spite of yourself : the asignifying force of humor and laughter
… of Yourself: The Asignifying Force of Humor and Laughter calls upon the interruptive moments of uncontrollable laughter to challenge rhetoric’s historical treatment of humor and laughter. Anyone who has ever suffered a fit of hysterical laughter at precisely the wrong moment, or has begun to …
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Leading Through Laughter: Humor and Perceived Effectiveness of P-12 Principals
<p>The field of leadership has yielded boundless research studies across disciplines, with a plethora in the business and political realms. The medical field and other social science have also joined the ranks, with education now entering the landscape. Educational leadership is a burgeoning field …
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"Laughter in the Dark": Belief and Literature in a Secular Age
<p>While the “spiritual” nature of contemporary literary fiction is easier to identify in the works of the outright “religious” (e.g., Marilynne Robinson), there are others traditionally viewed by the critical establishment as “secular” (e.g., Jonathan Lethem) for whom the concern is a bit more …
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Effect of Laughter Therapy Program for Obese Women: Stress, Psychoneuroendocrinoimmuno Response
본 연구는 Lazarus와 Folkman(1984)의 스트레스 대처 이론과 PNI model을 적용하여 비만여성을 위한 웃음치료프로그램을 개발하여 그 효과를 파악하고자 시도하였다. 본 연구방법은 다음과 같다. 첫째, 비만여성을 위한 웃음치료프로그램을 개발 후 Lynn(1986)의 전문가 내용 타당도를 거쳐 수정·보완한 후 개발하였다. 둘째, 개발된 웃음치료프로그램의 효과를 검증하기 위하여 경기도 P보건소에서 비만여성을 대상으로 2014년 7월 10일부터 2014년 8월 19일까지 주 2회 6주간 회당 60분씩 비동등성 대조군 …
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Not a Joke: Women's Work and Feminist Laughter in Stand-Up Comedy
Live feminist stand-up comedy, and the shared laughter it generates, is a potent form of popular cultural performance that has become increasingly politically relevant and commercially successful in contemporary North America. In this thesis, I take an interdisciplinary, mixed-method approach to …
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"Where Youth and Laughter Go:" Trench Warfare from petersburg to the Western Front
The study of soldier’s experience is important to understanding the effect that wars have on society. In the latter part of the 19th century the experience of warfare changed due to advances in weapons technology. The defensive tactic of trench warfare gained new importance. The most prolific use …
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Therapy, awareness, community and laughter - a case study in art, design and chronic illness.
I developed the chronic pain condition Fibromyalgia during my teenage years. I give a personal account of the way this has affected me; how it affects other sufferers, and how this provides a context for my research, both practical and theoretical. I identify education and building sensitivity as …
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Carry On Joking: Freud, Laughter and the Hysterical Male in the Carry On films
The popularity of the Carry On films can be measured by the success of the series which ran for twenty years from 1958-1978. Twenty-nine films were made and at the height of their popularity in the 1960s two films a year were being produced to capitalise on the success of the series. Film after …
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Þá varð hlátr mikill: On the role of laughter in Old Norse saga literature
… research is vast and continuously growing, and laughter might be the most prominent and contagious of all emotions we experience. Even though the word ‘laughter’ can be found in a plethora of study titles, the reader is frequently left disappointed as the focus is most often humour, not …
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What's in a laugh? Humour, jokes and laughter in the conversational corpus of the BNC
The work investigates humour, laughter and joke performances in natural spontaneous conversations recorded in the UK for the British National Corpus (BNC) and the Bergen Corpus of London Teenage Language (COLT). It is a broad-based study that aims to elucidate how humour and laughter function in …
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