[Lexicog] words for different kinds of laughter

[John Roberts]

Fritz,

<chuckle>

that is because I have heard this joke before, but when I heard it 
before it was number 56. :-)

Laughter is closely connected to humour and different cultures 
(languages) will laugh at different things. All cultures laugh and smile 
at incongruities and their solutions. But cultural preferences can 
affect both the specific content and the perception of incongruities and 
their resolutions, as well as the interpretation of the surprise 
element. Each culture has its own set of values, norms, and unwritten 
rules of what is appropriate in humour, and these largely determine its 
content, target, and style. This will determine when and how people 
laugh. So you will need to understand the way humour works in a 
particular culture if you are going to compare laughter in one 
culture/language to that in another. They say humour is one of the 
hardest things to translate ...

John


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John R Roberts
SIL International Linguistics Consultant
dr_john_roberts at sil.org
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