Laughter [ Communication ]
… and ‘an expression of ludicrous scorn’. 9 The notion that certain kinds of laughter communicated contempt dated back to antiquity, but it was given momentum and prominence by Thomas Hobbes in Leviathan (1651). For Hobbes, laughter was …
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