Laughter [ Communication ]
… 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 speech act, but nevertheless a noisy and corporeal intervention in …
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