The Importance of Not Being Earnest: The Feeling Behind Laughter and Humor

Consciousness & Emotion Book #3

by Wallace Chafe

Chafe, Prof. Dr. Wallace

Genres: Humor

167 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

Wallace Chafe was one of the foremost original scholars of the functional theoretical approach to linguistics. He was involved in ongoing work with several communities of North American Indians, most notably the Seneca of New York. He also wrote extensively about discourse, language and consciousness, laughter, prosody, and other topics.
At the end of his life he was Professor Emeritus of the University of California, Santa Barbara.