Laughing and Ridicule: Towards a Social Critique of Laughter
- ISBN-10
- 1446211770
- ISBN-13
- 9781446211779
- Category
- Laughter
- Pages
- 264
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005
- Author
- Michael Billig
Description
Tackling the assumption that laughter and humour are necessarily good in themselves, this text develops a critique of humour proposing a social theory that places humour in the form of ridicule as central to social life.
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