Understanding Humor through Communication: Why Be Funny, Anyway? PDF
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Understanding Humor through Communication Understanding Humor through Communication Why Be Funny, Anyway? John Meyer LEXINGTONBOOKS Lanham•Boulder•NewYork•London PublishedbyLexingtonBooks AnimprintofTheRowman&LittlefieldPublishingGroup,Inc. 4501ForbesBoulevard,Suite200,Lanham,Maryland20706 www.rowman.com UnitA,WhitacreMews,26-34StannaryStreet,LondonSE114AB Copyright©2015byLexingtonBooks Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereproducedinanyformorbyany electronicormechanicalmeans,includinginformationstorageandretrievalsystems, withoutwrittenpermissionfromthepublisher,exceptbyareviewerwhomayquote passagesinareview. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationInformationAvailable LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationDataAvailable ISBN978-1-4985-0316-7(cloth:alk.paper) ISBN978-1-4985-0317-4(electronic) TMThepaperusedinthispublicationmeetstheminimumrequirementsofAmerican NationalStandardforInformationSciencesPermanenceofPaperforPrintedLibrary Materials,ANSI/NISOZ39.48-1992. PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica Contents Acknowledgments vii 1 CommunicationandTheoriesofHumorOrigin 1 2 FunctionsofHumorinCommunication 21 3 AModelofIndividualHumorChoice 43 4 HumorandPersuasion 59 5 HumorinOrganizationsandCultures 71 6 HumorinPersonalRelationships 81 7 DangersofHumorforRelationships 95 8 ASocialModelofHumor 105 Bibliography 121 Index 131 v Acknowledgments No book is undertaken without a foundation of support from fellow scholars and significant others. In this instance, the early research was greatly enhanced by the efforts of Matthew Ramsey, once a student and nowavaluedhumorscholarandcolleague.Morerecently,ColleenMes- tayer stepped in to find some outstanding sources and provide many wordsofencouragement.Also,throughtheyears,thegraduatestudents inmyhumorcommunicationseminars,andundergraduatesinasimilar course, have found fascinating research and suggested great ideas and elaborations upon them. Most importantly, we have shared some out- standing moments of humor together even as we worked together to betterunderstandthem. Thanks also to editor Alison Pavan at Lexington Books, for being the definitionofapatienteditor,andtoherandherstaffforalltheirencour- agementandhelp. vii
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