Detail Reviews: Michael Billig, Laughter and Ridicule: Towards a Social Critique of Humour. London, Thousand Oaks, CA and New Delhi: Sage, 2005. £60.00 (hbk), £19.99 (pbk). 272 pp.   Oleh:  Palmer, Jerry Jenis: Article from Article Dalam koleksi: European Journal of Communication vol. 23 no. 1 (2010), page 87-89. Topik: Laughter and Ridicule; Humour Fulltext: 87.full.pdf (112.04KB) Isi artikel Michael Billig’s book has a polemical orientation at its heart: to argue against the thesis that humour is unambiguously a positive feature of human life, and to show that such theories are driven by an ideology. These theories vary from the commonsense ‘laugh a day keeps the doctor away’ variety through to major thinkers such as Freud. What they have in common is the inability to account for the centrality of ridicule to humour, for ridicule is a negative phenomenon, aggression in humorous form. This polemical drive leads him to a line of argument that is largely theoretical, in the sense that there is little in the way of new substantive analysis of pieces of humour – and indeed virtually nothing at all about comedy – as the argument is conducted through assessments of other theories, concentrating on their internal coherence or incoherence. Opini Anda Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini! Kembali

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