This is not a book of jokes. It is about how people make rules about humour: rules about what humour is, what it is not, what it should and should not be, when it should and should not be used, what type of humour is permissible and what type forbidden, what is good and bad about humour, what should be considered funny and what should not. The book offers a framework for a general understanding of why and how societies make rules about the use of humour, and how those rules affect patterns of communication and the development of humour and comedy.

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University of Wollongong, Australia

Marguerite Wells

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MARGUERITE WELLS

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Book Title: Japanese Humour
Authors: Marguerite Wells
Series Title: St Antony's Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230390065
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1997
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-61602-4Published: 18 June 1997
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-39006-5Published: 18 June 1997
Series ISSN: 2633-5964
Series E-ISSN: 2633-5972
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 196
Topics: Sociology of Education, Sociology of Education, Popular Science, general, Communication Studies, Cultural Studies, Sociology, general

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

Front Matter

The Rules of Humour

The Ethics of Humour

Early Japanese Ideas of Humour

Ideas of Humour in the Meiji Era

Ideas of Humour since the Meiji Era

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