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LAUGHTER AND RIDICULE IBD

SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
10 / 2005
9781412911436
Inglês

Sinopse

This delightful, thought-provoking book tackles head-on the assumption that laughter and humour are necessarily good in themselves. The author proposes a social theory that places humour central to social life. Billig argues that all cultures use ridicule as a disciplinary means to uphold norms of conduct and conventions of meaning.