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Presenation at the ISS 2006: |
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Salvatore Attardo Humor and Linguistics | GTVH workshop abstract 1) An Overview of The Linguistics of Humor 2) A History of Humor in Western Civilization 3) Analyzing Longer Humorous Texts |
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Ursula Beermann FACS and Humor |
FACS workshop WorkshopFACS_fribourg06_abstract.doc |
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Christie Davies (University of Reading, UK): Sociology, Ethnic humor |
1) Swiss Jokes about Freiburg/Fribourg viewed in comparative perspective 2) French Jokes about the Swiss 3) Political Jokes under Communism and American jokes about lawyers |
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Christian F. Hempelmann (Georgia Southern University , USA): Linguistics and General Humor Introduction, Cartoons |
GTVH workshop abstract 1) Introduction to Incongruity Theories of Humor 2) Puns: Humorous and Non-Humorous Wordplay 3) Are Cartoons Drawn Jokes? Formal, Aesthetic, and Cognitive Differences to Verbal Humor |
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Oswald Huber (University of Fribourg, Switzerland) General Psychology and Cartoonist |
1) On Cartooning |
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Ralph Müller (Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands); University of Fribourg, Switzerland) German Literature and Philology |
1) Punch Lines in Con-Text. Exploring the Interplay of Humour, Genre and Poetics |
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Rod A. Martin (Western Ontario, Canada) Psychological aspects of Humor |
Workshop Humor Questionnaires 1) Interpersonal functions of humor 2) Humor and physical health (including immunology) 3) Humor and mental health 4) Humor and close relationships |
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Willibald Ruch (University of Zurich, Switzerland) : Humor and Positive Psychology |
1) Humor and Positive Psychology |
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Samson Andrea (University of Fribourg, Switzerland): Humor and fMRI, Cartoons |
1) Humor and fMRI 2) Are Cartoons Drawn Jokes? Formal, Aesthetic, and Cognitive Differences to Verbal Humor |
Brigitte Stemmer (University of Montreal, Canada) short biography |
1) Happy Brainwaves |
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Doni Tamblyn (Philadelphia, USA) |
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Werner Wicki (Teacher Training University, Central Switzerland) Paedagogical aspects of Humor |
1) Pedagogical aspects of humor |
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Barbara Wild Brain and Smile
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1) Smiling and Brain |
