Studies in comedy, II: toothless wine.

Rhetoric, Comedy, or Shock? Bruce Gilley’s Case of Anachronism

The cultural currency of a 'good' sense of humour: British comedy and new forms of distinction.

Traditionally considered lowbrow art par excellence, British comedy has grown steadily in legitimacy since the 'Alternative Comedy Movement' of the early 1980s. Yet while there might be evidence of a transformation in British comic production, there is little understanding of how this has been reflected in patterns of consumption. Indeed, there is a remarkable absence of studies probing comedy ...

Fighting Thatcher with Comedy: What to Do When There Is No Alternative

This article offers a history of British alternative comedy as a case study of political challenge and opposition in the 1980s and considers the role of humor in political campaigning more broadly. It explores left-wing thinking on culture as a potential political weapon, and questions how this informed the development and impact of alternative comedy as a genre. The article observes that pione...

Comedy, Context and Unsaid Meaning: A Case Study in Conversational Implicature

Pragmatics moves away from the word level and sentence level study of language towards the study of language in real-world context and at discourse level whereby two or more participants take part in conversation. There are moments when the speaker explicitly says something but the listener may have other interpretations and inferences from their statements. The aim of this study was to demonst...

Relationship between the Early Toothless Condition and Hippocampal Functional Morphology

Hippocampus is important for learning and memory. This article reviews the recent progress of the relationship between the toothless condition and the hippocampal functional morphology. Tooth loss early in life was generated by extracting the upper molars shortly after tooth eruption in mice or rat. Morphological and physiological studies showed that early toothlessness, acting as a chronic str...