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Humor, Comedy, and Consumer Behavior

production, and sense of humor (table 1) By using distinct construct labels, we can more easily interpret a literature that inconsistently defines, manipulates, and measures humor Humor can refer to something that is, or is intended to be, funny (Martin 2007; Sternthal and Craig 1973) Following Stern (1996), we refer to the stimuli (gestures,

HUMOUR, IRONY AND SATIRE IN LITERATURE

The majority of people are able to experience humour, i e , to be amused, to laugh or smile at something funny, and thus they are considered to have a sense of humour Satire may rely more on understanding the target of the humour and thus tends to appeal to more mature audiences Humour is also used (or probably misused) to mean any type of

STUDY OF THE EFFECT OF POSITIVE HUMOUR AS A VARIABLE THAT

of comedy, tastes in humour and rules about how, when and where to laugh, it would appear that the same types of things awaken a sense of humour all over the world Idígoras (2002) attempts to define humour by quoting the Spanish writer Mingote: “humour is not being afraid to think”; in this conception, on the one hand humour

THE TRANSLATION OF HUMOUR IN ENGLISH COMEDY SERIES

The difficulty on the definition of humour is that it is very subjective Many authors have attempted to find a proper definition for humour, while others have concluded that no definition can be formulated JEROEN VANDAELE1 “the task of defining humour has driven some desperate scholars to give up on any attempt at defining humour”

QUEL EST LE SENS DE LHUMOUR ? Freud : Le mot desprit, et sa

Certaines disent que le plaisir de l'humour est simplement d'agrémenter la réalité, qui serait intenable si l'on se cantonnait à l'esprit de sérieux André SUARES, Valeurs, Formes, VII : « L’humour n’a pas du tout le sens du ridicule : il va bien au delà L’humour est la possession exquise et légère de l’objet par l’esprit

Humour et inattendu: aspects linguistiques et cognitifs

29 06 2013 3 Le mot ‘humour’ •Le sens actuel provient de ‘humour’ (anglais), lui-même empunté du fançais ‘humeu’, teme utilisé en médecine médiévale, et qui dénote une «tendance, inclination, trait de