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Languages : fr
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Recueil factice progr. et extr. presse concernant les spectacles donnés à Vals en 1929
Author: A Lace Guide for Makers and Collectors
Author: Gertrude WhitingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lace and lace making
Languages : fr
Pages : 428
Book Description
Say Not to Say
Author: Luigi AnolliPublisher: IOS Press
ISBN: 9781586032159
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This text explores the major ways in which miscommunication can be experienced in our daily life.
Humor in Interaction
Author: Neal R. NorrickPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027254273
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
The occasioning of self-disclosure humor / Susan M. Ervin-Tripp & Martin Lampert -- Direct address as a resource for humor / Neal R. Norrick & Claudia Bubel -- An interactional approach to irony development / Helga Kotthoff -- Multimodal and intertextual humor in the media reception situation : the case of watching football on TV / Cornelia Gerhardt -- Using humor to do masculinity at work / Stephanie Schnurr & Janet Holmes -- Boundary-marking humor : institutional, gender, and ethnic demarcation in the workplace / Bernadette Vine ... [et al.] Impolite responses to failed humor / Nancy D. Bell -- Failed humor in conversation : a double voicing analysis / Béatrice Priego-Valverde
Psychological Theory and Educational Reform
Author: David R. OlsonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521532112
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
For well over a century educational reformers have looked for a breakthrough in the sciences of psychology and pedagogy that would dramatically improve the effectiveness of schooling. This book shows why such an ambition is an illusion. Schools are institutions which attempt to balance the needs of a bureaucratic society that funds them with the personal goals, interests, hopes and ambitions of the students who enroll in them. Reform efforts attempt to realign that balance without any clear conception of how the two are related. This book offers a theoretical account of the relation between the minds of learners and the institutional structure of the school that would account both for the ways that schooling remakes minds and societies and why such institutions are resistant to change.
Recueil factice extr. presse et progr. concernant les spectacles donnés au Théâtre du Petit monde, en 1929
Author: The Language of Jokes
Author: Delia ChiaroPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134970099
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
In this highly readable and thought-provoking book, Delia Chiaro explores the pragmatics of word play, using frameworks normally adopted in descriptive linguistics. Using examples from personally recorded conversations, she examines the structure of jokes, quips, riddles and asides. Chiaro explores degrees of conformity to and deviation from established conventions; the `tellability' of jokes, and the interpretative role of the listener; the creative use of puns, word play and discourse. The emphasis in her analysis is on sociocultural contexts for the production and reception of jokes, and she examines the extent to which jokes are both universal in their appeal, and specific to a particular culture.
Culture Learning
Author: Louise DamenPublisher: Addison-Wesley Longman
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
This text explores cross-cultural awareness and intercultural communicative skills from culture-general and culture-specific perspectives. It is appropriate for language teachers, teacher trainers, counsellors, advisors, and other professionals concerned with multi-cultural issues.
The Importance of Not Being Earnest
Author: Wallace ChafePublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027292973
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
The thesis of this book is that neither laughter nor humor can be understood apart from the feeling that underlies them. This feeling is a mental state in which people exclude some situation from their knowledge of how the world really is, thereby inhibiting seriousness where seriousness would be counterproductive. Laughter is viewed as an expression of this feeling, and humor as a set of devices designed to trigger it because it is so pleasant and distracting. Beginning with phonetic analyses of laughter, the book examines ways in which the feeling behind the laughter is elicited by both humorous and nonhumorous situations. It discusses properties of this feeling that justify its inclusion in the repertoire of human emotions. Against this background it illustrates the creation of humor in several folklore genres and across several cultures. Finally, it reconciles this understanding with various already familiar ways of explaining humor and laughter.
Humor and Health Promotion
Author: Paola GremigniPublisher: Nova Science Pub Incorporated
ISBN: 9781633211469
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Interest in humor has grown in recent years, especially in relation to its clinical applications. Humor helps relax, improve relationships with others, and reduce negative emotions such as anger. A person who suffers from psychological distress, can learn to open up to others through humor, to complain less, and to transform her mood in a positive way and find constructive solutions to her problems. Mix therapeutic action can help with humor change and improve the management of several diseases (both somatic and mental). Therefore, humor can play a vital role in promoting general and mental well-being. It may seem difficult to measure the health benefits of laughter, but a number of scientific studies done in a clinical setting support the benefits of humor therapy. The aim of this book is to show how humor can become a valuable tool for working in health professions.