This study examines the narrative approach of Shahnameh by Ferdowsi based on Bakhtin’s dialogism. The logic of dialogue, a narrative that describes the relationship between different views through dialogue and interaction and considers dialogue as the only way of communication. Dialogism is supplemented by concepts such as "polyphony", "the other voice" and "Carni...

background: aging and its social-biological process naturally impair the functions of different body organs and cause progressive disabilities in managing personal affairs and performing social roles. laughter therapy is an important strategy which has been recommended by experts for increasing health promotion in older adults. therefore, we aimed to investigate the effect of laughter therapy p...

Laughter is highly relevant for social interaction in human beings and non-human primates. In humans as well as in non-human primates laughter can be induced by tickling. Human laughter, however, has further diversified and encompasses emotional laughter types with various communicative functions, e.g. joyful and taunting laughter. Here, it was evaluated if this evolutionary diversification of ...

Studies on laughter in dialogue have proposed resolving what laughter is about by looking at what laughter follows. This paper investigates the sequential relation between the laughter and the laughable. We propose a semantic/pragmatic account treating laughter as a gestural event anaphor referring to a laughable. Data from a French and Chinese dialogue corpus suggest a rather free time alignme...

Laughter is a significant paralinguistic cue that is largely ignored in multimodal affect analysis. In this work, we investigate how a multimodal laughter corpus can be constructed and annotated both with discrete and dimensional labels of emotions for acted and spontaneous laughter. Professional actors enacted emotions to produce acted clips, while spontaneous laughter was collected from volun...

Laughter, as component of social interaction, has attracted interest within conversational analysis [2, 5]. While laughter can be expressed in different contexts, voluntary or involuntary [6], and diverse in function and degree of functionality [2], it is not random. We study timing of laughter during conversation in relation to topic changes: whether recurrent patterns in laughter distribution...

Despite being a pan-cultural phenomenon, laughter is arguably the least understood behaviour deployed in social interaction. As well as being a response to humour, it has other important functions including promoting social affiliation, developing cooperation and regulating competitive behaviours. This multi-functional feature of laughter marks it as an adaptive behaviour central to facilitatin...

Laughter and humor are major ingredients of humanity but does not have any black and white authenticate. Laughter is a physiological process, which activates facial, respiratory and laryngeal muscles. Laughter may occur instinctively in response to humor or to appropriate emotional or sociological stimuli and can also be elicited upon command – voluntary, contrived or faked laughter. Exploring ...

The size of human social networks significantly exceeds the network that can be maintained by social grooming or touching in other primates. It has been proposed that endogenous opioid release after social laughter would provide a neurochemical pathway supporting long-term relationships in humans (Dunbar, 2012), yet this hypothesis currently lacks direct neurophysiological support. We used PET ...

Abstract Cancer patients experience physical, psychological, social, and spiritual challenges which are related to mental well-being. Laughter Yoga includes those laughter exercises which may enhance mental well-being in patients undergoing chemo therapy. Purpose: To determine the Impact of Laughter Yoga on Mental Well-being of Cancer Patients under Chemotherapy Methodology: T...