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Journal articles on the topic "Laughter"

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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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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.<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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Books on the topic "Laughter"

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

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

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Hunter, Charles. Holy laughter. Hunter Books, 1994.

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

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

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

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

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Emerson, Earl W. Nervous laughter. Avon, 1986.

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Zandt, William Van. Silent laughter. Samuel French, 2004.

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United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, ed. Rx laughter. 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. 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. 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. 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. Springer US, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-79061-9_1622.

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Weiss, Scott. "Laughter." In The Neronian Grotesque. Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003038573-7.

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Graham, Nicole. "Laughter." In Feminism and the Religious Significance of Laughing Bodies. 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. 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, 6th ed. Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003255390-15.

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Thorsen, Mille Kjærgaard. "Laughter." In Living with Diabetes and Uncertainty in Cairo. Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003327684-2.

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

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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. ACM, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3064857.3079146.

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Hespanhol, Luke. "Interacting with laughter." In the 28th Australian Conference. 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. 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. 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, 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, 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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