Conversational Implicature Analysis of Humor in American ...

The relief theory has a clear physiological or psycho-physiological nature (Rutter,1997). The theory reached its zenith when Freud proposed his theory that laughter can release tension and “psychic energy”. A more conventional version of the relief theory is that we experience a pleasant sensation when humor replaces negative feelings like ... ................
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