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Engaging Humor

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Description for Engaging Humor Paperback. Filled with examples of jokes and riddles that reveal humour to be a meaningful - even significant - form of expression, this title provides alternate ways of thinking about humorous expressions by examining their contexts - not just their contents. Num Pages: 224 pages, 8 line drawings. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 220 x 16. Weight in Grams: 314.

Exploring the structure, motives, and meanings of humor in everyday life

In Engaging Humor, Elliott Oring asks essential questions concerning humorous expression in contemporary society, examining how humor works, why it is employed, and what its messages might be. This provocative book is filled with examples of jokes and riddles that reveal humor to be a meaningful--even significant--form of expression.

Oring scrutinizes classic Jewish jokes, frontier humor, racist cartoons, blonde jokes, and Internet humor. He provides alternate ways of thinking about humorous expressions by examining their contexts--not just their contents. He also shows how the incongruity and absurdity essential ... Read more

Engaging Humor examines the thoughts that underlie jokes, the question of racist motivation in ethnic humor, and the use of humor as a commentary on social interaction. The book also explores the relationship between humor and sentimentality and the role of humor in forging national identity. Engaging Humor demonstrates that when analyzed contextually and comparatively, humorous expressions emerge as communications that are startling, intriguing, and profound.

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Product Details

Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Weight
314g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252075933
SKU
V9780252075933
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Elliott Oring
Elliott Oring is a professor emeritus of anthropology at California State University, Los Angeles, and is the author of Israeli Humor, The Jokes of Sigmund Freud, and Jokes and Their Relations. He serves on the editorial board of Humor: International Journal of Humor Research.

Reviews for Engaging Humor
"This readable, well-reasoned book belongs on the shelf of anyone interested in humor. Highly recommended."
Choice "Elliott Oring has written a profound as well as clear and entertaining book."
Folklore "In every way, Elliott Oring's Engaging Humor leads the pack. . . . It is thoughtful and learned without being dull or pedantic; it combines a folklorist's attention to the social life ... Read more

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