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June 25, 2021
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Tyne Daile Sumner, « Kinesic Humor: Literature, Embodied Cognition, and the Dynamics of Gesture », Literature and the Face: A Critical History, ID : 10670/1.jp69cs
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Our project team member, Professor Guillemette Bolens, has recently published a new book with Oxford University Press - Kinesic Humor: Literature, Embodied Cognition, and the Dynamics of Gesture. The triggers of laughter in spoken language or conversation can often be very simple, such as a change in gesture, or in vocal tone or tempo. Speakers and listeners understand these dynamics of gesture through motor cognition and use them to great effect. The causes of laughter and the experi...