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文藝復興時期人文主義學者關心人的課題，無論是宗教、文學、音樂、藝術等生活各個面向都可見其端倪，影響深遠甚至觸及感情和心理層面，這是從天國到塵世一個思想流變的過程。作為基本情緒表達，笑成為當代思想討論不可或缺一部分。由於崇尚古典文明，當時不少著名思想家重新檢視蘇格拉底、柏拉圖和亞里斯多德的作品，進而接觸希臘、羅馬時代重要議題：喜劇笑鬧是否合於禮教，由此他們展開笑的適切性辯證，如維渥斯(Juan Luis Vives , 1492-1540)在《靈魂的情緒》(The Passions of the Soul, 1538)裡面一章〈笑〉(Laughter)談到他對於笑和喜悅的看法，文詞間顯然承襲自古典學派的說法。同一時期，熟讀醫學典籍的醫家卻有其他觀察。像是法蘭西醫生茹貝爾(Laurent Joubert, 1529-1582)於1579 年出版醫學典籍《笑論》(Treatise of Laughter, 1579)，內文強調笑對身體療效，敘述人們透過這一行為改變不平衡的精神狀態，保持心智健全。不過，誠如文化史學家揭示般，整體而言，社會普遍存在縱情言笑的限制。綜觀文藝復興時期笑的論述，於古典體系底下，百花齊放，引起各方爭論的癥結點在於：到底引起笑的根本原因是什麼？這一問題影響日後歐洲思想發展，並且形成心理學的理論基礎。那麼，各家說法之間到底有什麼相似和差異？其論述的歷史發展如何？不同時代有關笑的醫學論述，是否存在連續與斷裂面向呢？其次，造成轉變的原因又是何在？本文試圖藉分析當代知識分子對於笑存在不同說法，藉此理清歷史演變的軌跡並回答問題。 本論文共計四章，第一章考察希臘羅馬時期哲學家和文人學者對於笑的態度， 同時介紹古典醫學理論，以了解文藝復興晚期歐洲的知識份子具有的情緒觀念， 以及背後存在的歷史淵源。第二章主要分析維渥斯與茹貝爾對於笑的看法，並且 描述中古時期基督教會系統如何解釋笑，以及中古世紀的醫學發展。第三章闡述 十七世紀有關笑的醫學論述，本文將深入探討十七世紀的醫學文獻，主要說明醫 者如何透過以體液說為主的古代醫學理論，綜合外在因素與身體內部的運行方式， 剖析笑的現象；另一方面，分析他們是怎麼透過解剖學知識來解釋笑發生的原因。 第四章為本文結論，根據前三章的分析，綜觀文藝復興晚期文人學者與醫家的理 論皆源自希臘和羅馬時期，爾後各自發展一套論述，哲學思想與古代醫學兩大理 論系統，共同形塑十六、十七世紀歐洲笑的觀念與情緒表達的方式。 / In the Renaissance, humanists concerned about issues regarding mankind, which is reflected on aspects of life including religion, literature, music, and arts, etc. This far-reaching influence even touches the emotional and psychological facets, representing a transformational process of thoughts from heaven to the mundane world. As a basic emotional expression, laughter has always been indispensable in the discussion on thoughts in the contemporary era. At that time, because of their appreciation for classical culture, many well-known thinkers re-examined the works of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. They then contacted the important issues of ancient Greece and Rome: whether laughter and joy in the comedy conformed to ethics; hence dialectic about the appropriateness of laughter began. For instance, one of the chapters in The Passions of the Soul, namely “Laughter”, Juan Luis Vives talked about his viewpoints of laughter and joy, which, between the lines, apparently followed the classicism. In the same period, a French doctor, Laurent Joubert, published a medical book titled Treatise of Laughter in 1579, emphasizing the curative effect of laughter and suggested that through this behavior people could treat their mental disorders and keep themselves healthy, physically and emotionally. However, as cultural historians revealed, in general, the content of constraints on laughing to one’s heart had commonly existed in the society. Overall, under the classical system, discourses on laughter in the Renaissance flourished, and the principles underlying different arguments lied on the reasons pertaining to the causes of the external behavior of laughter. This question influenced the later development of European thoughts, and formed the theoretical basis of psychology. Thus, what are the similarities and differences among various schools? How had their discourses developed? Are the medical discourses on laughter in the late Renaissance Europe continuous or discontinuous? In addition, what caused the transformation? The thesis tries to analyze the accounts of intellectuals in the late Renaissance Europe to figure out the historical developments and answer the questions above. This thesis has four chapters. The first chapter investigates the attitudes of the philosophers and humanists in ancient Greece and Rome towards laughter, and provides an introduction to the classical medical theory for understanding the historical context behind the emotional concepts of the intellectuals in the late Renaissance Europe. The second chapter focus on analyzing Vives’s and Joubert’s ideas on laughter. In addition, this chapter describes Christian interpretation of laughter and the development of medicine in the Middle Age. Chapter Three expounds the medical discourses on laughter in the seventeenth century, and will give an in-depth discussion on the contemporary medical literature to illustrate how doctors explained the cause of laughter through anatomy and how they, based on the ancient medical theory on Humourism, analyzed laughter by combining the external factors and the internal operation in the body. Chapter Four sums up the thesis. Based on the previous three chapters, all the theories of the humanists and doctors derived from ancient Greece and Rome, and developed into two main theoretical systems, philosophy and medical science, respectively. Together they shaped the concept of laughter and emotional expressions in the sixteenth and seventeenth century Europe.

This paper focuses on the comic layers in Eddic mythological poetry, namely in Lokasenna, Hárbarðsljóð and Ϸrymskviða, and on their relation to the Old Norse religion. In the past, these comic and seemingly blasphemic poems used to be interpreted as a display of criticism of the religious system or, due to the impossibility to date their origin, as a product of late decadent paganism or even as a Christian satire of this religion. This paper shows that such interpretations are not necessary, and that the comic Eddic poems could have existed as a functional part of the Old Norse religion. It points out the affinity of the categories of religious humour and chaos. Subsequently, it presents various theories, mostly from the field of anthropology of religion, which show that a temporarily confrontation of order with chaos can be a desirable practise for a religion, and that humour can serve as a suitable means to achieve such a confrontation. The second part of the paper focuses on the particular Eddic poems. It analyses in detail their comic layers, and examines the possibilities of their function within the Old Norse religion on the background of the notion of piety and blasphemy in their time. It demonstrates their link to the tradition of ritualized verbal duels and other socio-cultural phenomena,...

- Hyperbole, Imagination and Tradition in Luigi Pulci's Morgante The epic Morgante, compiled at the end of the 15th century by the poet Luigi Pulci, stands at the turn of two historical eras. It is a meeting point of the Middle Ages and Renaissance with their literary influences and ideas. Also, it reflects the change in the development stages of the genre: from the period when the heroic narrative was declaimed by minstrels (joglars) on squares, this subject matter was gradually introduced into royal courts, where it was influenced by a more elevated culture. The main elements of this epic include the adoption of several literary traditions, the comic in many of its forms, and religion, all of which is underlined with the special imagination of the author together with allusions to his own life situation. Luigi Pulci adopted not only the tradition of the heroic matter full of typical medieval patterns (topoi) very popular in Italy at that time, but also the comic-realistic literary tradition of Tuscany, which provides his narrative with a different tone in many ways, and thus incorporates Morgante in a literary field different from the one which its predecessors were part of. Orlando is the most significant of these; it is a text that was used by Pulci as a direct inspiration for his work and most...

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Bien que La Fontaine ait explicitement placé ses Contes dans la lignée de grands recueils de narrations plaisantes, comme le Décaméron, les Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles ou l’Heptaméron, cette filiation assumée masque deux énigmes. La première concerne la transmission de ces modèles prestigieux jusqu’au poète ; ceux-ci ont en effet connu une diffusion européenne par le biais de compilations anonymes mal connues, agissant comme autant de filtres qu’il faut mieux évaluer. La seconde est celle de l’influence, sous-estimée, de cette production récréative multiforme sur l’autre versant de l’œuvre de La Fontaine, rédigé parallèlement aux Contes : celui des Fables. Il est donc nécessaire de confronter ces deux œuvres du poète, abordées de manière solidaire, à un corpus d’une centaine de recueils de narrations brèves à visée divertissante, écrits entre le XVe et le XVIIe siècle, pour cerner ce que les Contes et les Fables doivent précisément à cette tradition plaisante. L’enquête, fondée sur des investigations archéologiques minutieuses, conduit à mesurer, dans les textes lafontainiens, les reprises (directes ou médiatisées) de canevas facétieux, les modalités d’adaptation stylistique de cet héritage ancien, et les nouveaux mécanismes de différenciation générique entre vis comica et vis gnomica. La relation entretenue par La Fontaine avec ce patrimoine pluriséculaire, associé à une Renaissance gaillarde, permet, plus largement, de mieux comprendre les rapports ambivalents de l’âge classique avec un passé perçu comme plus rieur. Sont ainsi posés les fondements d’une esthétique de l’influence, articulant les recherches génétiques, les micro-analyses littéraires et l’histoire des représentations. / Although La Fontaine claimed that his Tales were deliberately imitating some famous collections of amusing stories, such as The Decameron or French Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles and Heptaméron, two questions remain unresolved. The first one deals with how those prestigious models were passed on to the poet; little-known, anonymous compilations that both spread those narratives throughout Europe and influenced the way they were read, are to be taken into consideration in this process. The second one is about the undervalued influence of these protean entertaining texts on the other part of La Fontaine’s works, written at the same time as his Tales: the Fables. Those two works, tackled as a coherent whole, must therefore be collated to a corpus of about one hundred books collecting short, funny narratives, mainly written between the XVth and the XVIIth century – in order to define the precise debt of the Tales and Fables to this merry literary tradition. Thorough archeological investigations are the basis of this survey that determines, within La Fontaine’s texts, how the poet rewrote some jokes he knew directly or indirectly ; which stylistic devices he invented to adapt this ancient legacy ; how he renewed the way the didactic genres are differentiated from the comic ones. The view La Fontaine had of this long-aged heritage, seen as the product of a saucy Renaissance, entails a broader and better understanding of the ambiguous relations between the classic era and a past supposed to have been more cheerful. This lays the foundations of an aesthetics of influence, which links together genetic research, close-reading of literary texts and history of cultural representations.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T18:12:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Marcelo Juca.pdf: 629535 bytes, checksum: 95910b700e53b7b51502db3fb6d58c69 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-08-08 / Laughter finds in the social the fullest way to manifest itself. Constituted by language, it compliments, denounces and puts forth the multitude of wishes which pass through the symptomatic signs of culture. The pleasure obtained from irony or laughter pleases the ego or the mass, and demands constant repetitions to fulfill the libido. This work is based in the consequences, on the communication field, of the assertive ridendo castigat mores assertion (with laughter the habits are punished). The wit, especially the published ex-professo by the media, obtain not only funny sense as like can name the forbidden true. The main objective of this work, based on the humour studes and the Joke teory of Freud, include the politically incorrect that obtain pleasure in the readres as well inquire the social power. In this case of the brazilian media, three important publications, of different times, are studed: the journal A Manha, of Barão de Itararé; the Pasquim and the piauí magazine, analyzed by psychoanalytical semiotics, as example the pleasure obtained from laught and the social critic act. The first and second chapters contemplate the essence of laughter and its inherently humane quality of creating pleasure. The third and fourth ones treat historical matters of mass communication and the brazilian press, and the fifth and final penetrates in the freudian structure by means of the daily praxis and puts the laughter on a polymorphous position to unveil the malaise in the civilization / O riso encontra no âmbito social o modo mais pleno de se manifestar. Deflagrado pela linguagem, elogia, denuncia e evidencia a multiplicidade de desejos que perpassam os signos sintomáticos da cultura, nos regimes por eles constituídos. O prazer conquistado da ironia ou da gargalhada agrada um ego ou a massa, e demanda constantes repetições para saciar a libido. Este trabalho baseia-se nas conseqüências, no campo da comunicação, da assertiva Ridendo castigat mores (Com o riso se castigam os costumes). Os ditos espirituosos, especialmente os veiculados ex-professo pela mídia, produzem não apenas efeitos engraçados de sentido, como podem nomear verdades proibidas. O objetivo da pesquisa, ancorada por estudos sobre o humorismo e a teoria dos chistes de Freud, abrange os dizeres politicamente incorretos que não somente geram prazer nos leitores, como também questionam os poderes constituídos. No caso da imprensa brasileira, são estudadas três publicações representativas de épocas distintas: o jornal A Manha, do Barão de Itararé; o Pasquim e a revista piaui, analisadas pelo prisma da semiótica de extração psicanalítica, a fim de exemplificar o riso como satisfação e como elemento de crítica social. O primeiro e o segundo capítulo contemplam a essência do risível e sua qualidade propriamente humana de gerar prazer. O terceiro e o quarto tratam das questões históricas da comunicação de massa e a imprensa brasileira, e o quinto, por fim, desenvolve a leitura da práxis cotidiana que coloca o riso em posição privilegiada para desnudar o mal-estar na civilização

I den här uppsatsen analyserar jag protagonisten Jean-Baptiste Clamences moraliska utveckling i Albert Camus’ roman Fallet. Jag använder A.J. Greimas aktantmodell och dennes utveckling av Vladimir Propps funktionsanalys för att nå mitt syfte. Jag föreslår även en kombination av de båda teorierna till ett schema, aktantfunktionsschemat, som jag använder för att tolka Clamences moraliska utveckling. Genom aktant-funktionsanalysen visar det sig hur Clamence gradvis djupnar och växer fast i sitt fall och sin skuld. Han söker den moraliska oskuld som flytt men inser till slut att den har gått oåterkalleligt förlorad. Istället underkastar han sig sin skuld och blir domare-botgörare – en falsk profet som förhärligas i självförgudningen.Men utvecklingen av samtalet går fel. Istället för att bryta ner den andre och tvinga fram dennes bekännelse möter Clamence sin överman i samtalspartnern, och jag argumenterar för att Clamence misslyckas med sitt syfte, underkastar sig samtalspartnern och gränsar till vansinnet. Det mest förvånande resultatet av analysen är hur samtalspartnern måste framstå som den verklige hjälten i historien vilket kräver en ny definition av aktanterna och klargörandet av en bakomliggande historia. Jag föreslår att samtalspartnern kan ses som en ny Kristus men tillstår behovet av vidare forskning. / In this essay I analyse the moral progression of Jean-Baptiste Clamence, the protagonist in Albert Camus’ novel The Fall. I employ A.J. Greimas’ actantial model and his development of Vladimir Propp’s function analysis for my purposes. I also propose a combination of the theories into a new actantial-functional scheme through which I analyses Clamence’s moral progression. Through the actantial-functional analysis it becomes clear how Clamence gradually deepens and grows rooted in his fall and guilt. Though seeking the moral innocence which he has lost he finally realises that it is gone forever and instead he submits to his fate and becomes judge-penitent – a false prophet indulging in self-deification. But the development of the conversation goes wrong. Instead of breaking the interlocutor down and forcing his confession Clamence meets his superior in the interlocutor, and I argue that Clamence fails in his aim, surrenders to the other and borders on madness. The most intriguing result of the analysis is how the interlocutor must stand out as the true hero of the novel which calls for a new definition of the actants in the novel and for the need of a primary story. I suggest that the interlocutor may be seen as an incarnation of Christ but acknowledges the need of further research.

I föreliggande studie undersöktes kommunikativa resurser i samtal mellan tre personer med afasi och deras respektive logoped/anhörig. Syftet var att identifiera och analysera resurser som samtalsdeltagarna gemensamt använde för att uppnå intersubjektivitet. Vidare undersöktes om det, utifrån vem personen med afasi samtalade med, fanns någon inverkan på hur de kommunikativa resurserna användes. Sex dyader spelades in och samtalsanalys användes för att studera materialet. Samtalsämnen valdes fritt av samtalsdeltagarna. Analysen resulterade i identi¬fie¬ring av tre bevarade resurser hos personerna med afasi; upprepningar, gester och skratt. Det gemensamma för dessa resurser var; att de förekom i den naturliga sekventialiteten i samtalet, att deras kommunikativa funktioner uppstod i samarbetet mellan samtalsdeltagarna och att de bidrog till intersubjektiviteten. Resurserna visade även på en social kompetens hos deltagarna med afasi som ofta döljs av de språkliga hindren. Då de kommunikativa resurserna fick liknande funktioner i de olika dyaderna, är resultatet troligen generaliserbart till annan interaktion där personer med afasi deltar. Resursernas kommunikativa funktioner föreföll inte bero på vem samtalspartnern var. Slutsatsen var att språklig kompetens hos personer med afasi framför allt bör ses ur ett inter¬aktivt perspektiv och att ett sådant förhållningssätt är önskvärt i logopediskt behandlingsarbete. / Analysis of Talk-in-Interaction involving People with Aphasia and Speech and Language Pathologists/Spouses: The Use of Communicative Resources in Collaboration toward Intersubjectivity. In the present study, communicative resources in conversations involving three persons with aphasia and their speech and language pathologists/spouses were investigated. The main purpose was to identify and analyse collaboratively used resources for achieving intersubjectivity. In addition, possible changes in the use of the communicative resources depending on conversational partner were investigated. The conversations of six dyads were recorded and analysed. Conversational topics were chosen by the participants. Through the analysis three preserved resources for participants with aphasia could be identified; repetitions, gestures and laughter. All resources occurred within the natural sequentiality of the conversation, their communicative functions emerged in collaboration of the participants and contributed to intersubjectivity. The social competence of the persons with aphasia, often concealed by the language impairment, was also revealed. The results may possibly be generalised to other communicative activities where persons with aphasia participate, since similar communicative functions were achieved through the same resources in different dyads. The functions of the resources were not determined by conversational partner. To conclude, it may be argued that linguistic competence of persons with aphasia should mainly be considered in an interactive perspective and that this view is preferred in language therapy.