17th International Summer School: Humour and Laughter: Theory, Research and Applications


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  • 17th International Summer School:

  • Humour and Laughter: Theory, Research and Applications

  • http://www.humoursummerschool.org/17/











FEATURES = CHARACTERISTICS

  • FEATURES = CHARACTERISTICS

  • FUNCTIONS = THE PURPOSE(S)

  • SUBJECTS = THE TOPIC(S)









  • Ambiguity

  • Exaggeration

  • Understatement

  • Hostility

  • Incongruity or Irony

  • Situation-Insight

  • Sudden Insight



Features:

  • Features:

  • Ambiguity

  • Sudden Insight

  • Surprise

  • Visual Imagery

  • Word Play



Features

  • Features

  • Ambiguity

  • Incongruity

  • Surprise

  • Visual Imagery

  • Word Play



  • Later philosophers, including Frances Hutcheson, argued that what we are really laughing about is incongruity.

  • We don’t go to asylums to laugh at the “inferior” beings, nor do we laugh at animals unless they resemble human beings.

  • We laugh at someone who slips on a banana peel not because we feel superior, but because of the incongruity between our expectations and the sudden insight.

  • And if the person who slips on a banana peel is pretentious, and is not seriously injured, we laugh even harder.











PSYCHOLOGICAL

  • PSYCHOLOGICAL

  • To amuse

  • To establish superiority

  • To gain control

  • To persuade

  • To save face

  • To test limits

  • To inbond/outbond



Salvatore Attardo and Victor Raskin say that the text of a joke is always more or less compatible with two distinct scripts and the two scripts are opposed to each other in a special way.

  • Salvatore Attardo and Victor Raskin say that the text of a joke is always more or less compatible with two distinct scripts and the two scripts are opposed to each other in a special way.

  • It is often the punch line that triggers the switch from the mundane script to the dramatic script.

  • The punch line makes the hearer backtrack and realize that a different interpretation [of the joke] was possible from the very beginning.









On the surface, Self Disparagement appears to be humbling oneself, but the mock-humility really puts the speaker in a position of power as in these commercials:

  • On the surface, Self Disparagement appears to be humbling oneself, but the mock-humility really puts the speaker in a position of power as in these commercials:

  • Terminex Pest Control: “When you think of pests, think of us.”

  • Twist Lemon-Menthol Cigarettes: “Our new menthol is a lemon.”



  • Champion International Trend Carpet: “Eight million people walked all over us. And they don’t even know our name.”

  • Quaker Oats as a diet food: “Quaker Oats: Breakfast of losers.”

  • Simmons bunk beds: “Simmons beds are a lot of bunk.”



Relax Students

  • Relax Students

  • Teach Facts

  • Argue and Persuade

  • Teach Vocabulary Concepts

  • Teach Careful Observation

  • Model Problem Solving





This is an amusing lesson in careful observation.

  • This is an amusing lesson in careful observation.

  • What are the clues that it is a painting?

  • Were such paintings precursors to today’s PhotoShop fun?



  • http://biggeekdad.com/2013/04/jonathan-winters-stick/#.UXfWSphGZzg.email



We joke about the subjects that we hesitate to talk about.

    • We joke about the subjects that we hesitate to talk about.
    • To test out the attitudes of new friends, we often send up “trial balloons” disguised as jokes.




OLD TABOOS

  • OLD TABOOS

  • Vulgarities

  • Swear Words

  • Body Parts

  • Sex

  • Religion

  • Obscenities











The subject matter that people choose to joke about goes a long ways in determining whether they are using humor as a release of moderate levels of discomfort, or whether they are really engaging in “hate-speech” disguised as humor.

  • The subject matter that people choose to joke about goes a long ways in determining whether they are using humor as a release of moderate levels of discomfort, or whether they are really engaging in “hate-speech” disguised as humor.

  • The important question to ask is whether the humor is used to weaken the target or strengthen the target.

  • M.I.C.H. (Moderate Intergroup Conflict Humor) is a humor theory that stresses moderation. Tension is necessary, but not too much.















Never target the victim.

  • Never target the victim.

  • Don’t joke too soon about tragedies.

  • Never target a quality the target can’t change.

  • Target only a person’s best qualities, not their worst qualities.

  • Joke only about your own gender, ethnicity, religion, appearance, etc.

  • If you want to hurt or disempower someone, then break all of these rules. Use the following rule: “What would Trump do?”





Monica Lewinsky

  • Monica Lewinsky

  • Spiro Agnew

  • Benito Mussolini

  • Adolph Hitler

  • Jorge Bergoglio

  • Alfonse Capone

  • Vladimir Putin

  • Linda Lovelace

  • Saddam Hussein

  • Tiger Woods



  • Don and Alleen Nilsen Humor PowerPoints on the AATH Web Site:

  • http://www.aath.org/don-and-alleen-power-points



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