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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Reginald B Adams |
ISBN: | 9780262518697 0262518694 |
OCLC Number: | 1026780405 |
Description: | 374 sidor ; 22.3 cm |
Series Title: | INSIDE JOKES |
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Science advances by asking new questions, and Matthew Hurley, Daniel Dennett, and Reginald Adams raise a lot of them.... Some of these questions have been asked before, but no previous attempt succeeds in answering so many so well.-Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Science Inside Jokes is the most persuasive theory of humor in the centuries that scientists have been trying to explain why we crack up. Extra bonus: unlike most such research, which is about as funny as a root canal, Hurley's analysis is-and I don't think I'm going out on too much of a limb here-the funniest thing the MIT Press... has ever published (in a good way).-Sharon Begley, The Daily Beast The theory [the authors] elaborate is a detailed and sophisticated descendant of incongruity theories.... The learned and even-handed stance adopted by [them] regarding problem cases is... upbeat: they regard their theory as a provisional staging post, and a prompt to further empirical enquiry into these open-ended issues. On balance, that is probably the right attitude to take.-The Times Literary Supplement [O]ne of the most complex and sophisticated humor theories ever presented.... The authors should be lauded for their thought-provoking and original work.-Evolutionary Psychology Read more...


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