Background
Chafe, Wallace LeSeur was born on September 3, 1927 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Albert J. and Nathalie (Amback) Chafe.
(The thesis of this book is that neither laughter nor humo...)
The thesis of this book is that neither laughter nor humor can be understood apart from the feeling that underlies them. This feeling is a mental state in which people exclude some situation from their knowledge of how the world really is, thereby inhibiting seriousness where seriousness would be counterproductive. Laughter is viewed as an expression of this feeling, and humor as a set of devices designed to trigger it because it is so pleasant and distracting. Beginning with phonetic analyses of laughter, the book examines ways in which the feeling behind the laughter is elicited by both humorous and nonhumorous situations. It discusses properties of this feeling that justify its inclusion in the repertoire of human emotions. Against this background it illustrates the creation of humor in several folklore genres and across several cultures. Finally, it reconciles this understanding with various already familiar ways of explaining humor and laughter.
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Introduction: Symbols, Abbreviations Morphology: Phonemes, Method, Automatic alternations, prosodic variants, the irreducible verb stem, the singular subjective prefix, the irreducible noun, the modal verb, the nonsingular subjective prefix, the objective prefix...
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Wallace Chafe demonstrates how the study of language and consciousness together can provide an unexpectedly broad understanding of the way the mind works. Relying on close analyses of conversational speech as well as written fiction and nonfiction, he investigates both the flow of ideas through consciousness and the displacement of consciousness by way of memory and imagination. Chafe draws on several decades of research to demonstrate that understanding the nature of consciousness is essential to understanding many linguistic phenomena, such as pronouns, tense, clause structure, and intonation, as well as stylistic usages, such as the historical present and the free indirect style. While the book focuses on English, there are also discussions of the North American Indian language Seneca and the music of Mozart and of the Seneca people. This work offers a comprehensive picture of the dynamic natures of language and consciousness that will interest linguists, psychologists, literary scholars, computer scientists, anthropologists, and philosophers.
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From Preface to Volume III. The main object of the project, was to look for linguistic evidence that knowledge is stored in the mind in part analogically, and not only propositionally. As the project developed, however, a number of other hypotheses and findis regarding the relation betweenwhat people know and hwat they say began to emerge. This book presents some of the hypotheses and findings we thing worth putting int print. They are highly varied, covering a wide range of cognitive, cultural and linguistic topics, but they are unified in their elation to a single body of data.
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Chafe, Wallace LeSeur was born on September 3, 1927 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Albert J. and Nathalie (Amback) Chafe.
Bachelor of Arts, Yale University, 1950; Master of Arts, Yale University, 1956; Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1958.
Assistant professor, U. Buffalo, 1958-1959; linguist, Bureau American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution, 1959-1962; member of faculty, University of California-Berkeley, 1962-1986; professor linguistics, University of California-Berkeley, 1967-1986; professor linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1986-1991; professor emeritus, University of California, Santa Barbara, since 1991.
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Served with United States Naval Reserve, 1945-1946. Member Linguistic Society American, American Psychological Association, American Anthropological Association.
Married Mary Elizabeth Butterworth, June 23, 1951 (divorced 1980). Children– Christopher, Douglas, Stephen. Married Marianne Mithun, January 25, 1985.