Laughter and Ridicule
Michael Billig
SAGE Publications Inc, 2005
330,75 €On orderDelivery: 2-3 weeks
This delightful, thought-provoking book tackles head-on the assumption that laughter and humour are necessarily good in themselves. The author proposes a social theory that places humour central to social life. Billig argues that all cultures use ridicule as a disciplinary means to uphold norms of conduct and conventions of meaning.
- ISBN-13
- 9781412902502
- ISBN-10
- 1412902509
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications Inc
- Year
- 2005
- Publication date
- 2005-07-19
- Pages
- 272
- Dimensions
- 234x156x
- Weight
- 560