Author : Claire Horisk
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 45,60 MB
Release : 2024
Category : Education
ISBN : 0197691498
Dangerous Jokes develops a new theory about how humor in ordinary conversations communicates prejudice and reinforces social hierarchies, drawing on the author's expertise in philosophy of language and on evidence from sociology, law and cognitive science. It explains why jokes are more powerful than ordinary speech at conveying demeaning messages, and it gives a new account of listening, addressing the morality of telling, listening to, being amused by, and laughing at demeaning jokes.