By Peter Baofu PH.D Ph.D.
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Baofu discusses the way forward for humor, specifically within the dialectic context of joking and laughing--while studying from various ways within the literature yet with out favoring anybody of them. He bargains a brand new concept to move past the present ways within the literature on humor in a unique way.
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Baofu discusses the way forward for humor, particularly within the dialectic context of joking and laughing--while studying from various methods within the literature yet with no favoring anybody of them. He deals a brand new concept to move past the present methods within the literature on humor in a unique manner
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Even then, in some cases, the difference between any two given principles, for instance, in terms of the number of citations in a book, is rather small, so the reason in those cases is more aesthetic (than otherwise), because it looks nicer to list only 17 theses for 17 principles (than 22 theses for all of the 22 principles) in the Table of Contents. This is true, even if different studies of the same kind can yield different views about the degree of relevance for each principle, depending on the specific nature of a research in question, needless to say.
WK 2010a) • “Mathematical Jokes”—“are a form of in-joke, generally designed to be understandable only by insiders. )” (WK 2010a) • “Ethnic Jokes” (or “Race Humor”)—“exploit ethnic stereotypes. They are often racist and frequently considered offensive. ” (WK 2010a) • “Black Humour” (or “Black Comedy”)—is “the sub-genre of comedy and satire in which laughter arises from cynism and skepticism. g. nun jokes, priest jokes, or rabbi jokes),” (b) “jokes on classical religious subjects: crucifixion, Adam and Eve, St.
For illustration, consider two major criticisms, as shown below. Firstly, these different versions of the cultural argument are too restrictive, in ignoring other dimensions of the cultural argument (that is, other than the dimension that each theory focuses on, semantically speaking). And secondly, these different versions of the cultural argument are also too narrow, in excluding other arguments (like the mental, natural, and societal ones, as already introduced above). , the mental, the natural, the societal, and the cultural)—the fifth one to be introduced here can be called, in the absence of better words again, the metamorphic argument, which learns from all other theoretical approaches (which include the previous four arguments and also other examples as will be introduced in the rest of this book), without, however, favoring any of them, nor trying to integrate them (as they are not necessarily compatible with each other, as the introduction of the theoretical debate in the previous sub-sections has shown).