TAILIEUCHUNG - IELTS Academic Reading Sample 76 - What's so funny

Để đạt thành tích cao trong kì thi sắp tới, các bạn có thể tham khảo IELTS Academic Reading Sample 76 - What's so funny sau đây, nhằm rèn luyện và nâng cao kĩ năng giải đề thi IELTS, nâng cao kiến thức cho bản thân. | What s so funny John McCrone reviews recent research on humour The joke comes over the headphones Which side of a dog has the most hair The left. No not funny. Try again. Which side of a dog has the most hair The outside. Hah The punchline is silly yet fitting tempting a smile even a laugh. Laughter has always struck people as deeply mysterious perhaps pointless. The writer Arthur Koestler dubbed it the luxury reflex unique in that it serves no apparent biological purpose . Theories about humour have an ancient pedigree. Plato expressed the idea that humour is simply a delighted feeling of superiority over others. Kant and Freud felt that joke-telling relies on building up a psychic tension which is safely punctured by the ludicrousness of the punchline. But most modern humour theorists have settled on some version of Aristotle s belief that jokes are based on a reaction to or resolution of incongruity when the punchline is either a nonsense or though appearing silly has a clever second meaning. Graeme Ritchie a computational linguist in Edinburgh studies the linguistic structure of jokes in order to understand not only humour but language understanding and reasoning in machines. He says that while there is no single format for jokes many revolve around a sudden and surprising conceptual shift. A comedian will present a situation followed by an unexpected interpretation that is also apt. So even if a punchline sounds silly the listener can see there is a clever semantic fit and that sudden mental Aha is the buzz that makes us laugh. Viewed from this angle humour is just a form of creative insight a sudden leap to a new perspective. However there is another type of laughter the laughter of social appeasement and it is important to understand this too. Play is a crucial part of development in most young mammals. Rats produce ultrasonic squeaks to prevent their scuffles turning nasty. Chimpanzees have a play-face - a gaping expression accompanied by a panting ah ah .

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