LAUGHTER AND CULTURE (SEMIOTIC ASPECT)

2 The semiotic account of trademark doctrine and trademark culture

Semiotics is the study of signs and sign systems. While linguistics concerns itself specifically with human speech, semiotics investigates " the processes and effects of the production and reproduction, reception and circulation of meaning in all forms, used by all kinds of agent[s] of communication. " 1 Semiotic thought developed into its own distinctive field of inquiry in the late-nineteenth...

Is Laughter the Best Medicine? Humor, Laughter, and Physical Health

This article examines re search evidence for the popu lar idea that humor and laughter have beneficial ef fects on physical health. Poten tial theoretical mechanisms for such effects are discussed first. Empirical evidence for benefi cial effects of humor and laughter on immunity, pain tolerance, blood pressure, lon gevity, and illness symptoms is then summarized. Overall, the evidence for heal...

Organizational Climate in Its Semiotic Aspect: A Postmodern Community College Undergoes Renewal

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Afterword: Laughter and Temperament

Unspecified Posted at the Zurich Open Repository and Archive, University of Zurich ZORA URL: http://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-77682 Accepted Version Originally published at: Ruch, Willibald (1997). Afterword: Laughter and Temperament. In: Ekman, Paul; Rosenberg, E L. What the face reveals : basic and applied studies of spontaneous expression using the facial action coding system (FACS). New York: Oxf...

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