Laughter [ Communication ]
… , the Sneer, The Grin , the Horse-Laugh in the rear 3 3 . William Brownsword, Laugh Upon Laugh, or Laughter Ridicul’d (London, 1740), p. 20. Laughter involved a complex interplay of body and mind. It was a physical action – not quite a … and surely every way of talking that is practised cannot be esteemed’. 4 4 . James Boswell, The life of Samuel Johnson (London: Henry Baldwin, 1791), vol. 1, p. 244. For those eager to theorise and encourage polite sociability, laughter was … was a fêted social skill. 6 . Georg Friedrich Meier, The Merry Philosopher; or, Thoughts on Jesting, trans. Anon. (London: J. Newbery and W. Nicoll, 1764), p. 14. In eighteenth-century intellectual circles, however, good humour and …
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