Monday, November 21, 2011

Importance and Role of Humour

By Christine Wolf


Humor is the tendency of particular cognitive experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement. Humor is the quality of the imagination which gives to ideas an incongruous or fantastic turn, and tends to excite laughter or mirth by ludicrous images or representations. The term Humour is originated from the humoral medicine of the Ancient Greeks which means, the balance of Fluids in the human body, known as humourous. People of all ages and cultures respond to humour. The majority of people are able to experience humour, i.e. to be amused, to laugh or smile at something funny, and from that we can assume that they have a Sense of Humor.

When the space between the expectations inherent the approximation of thoughts and break those expectations, emotion of laughter arises. Theophrastus and some others developed a set a characters based on humors. Those with too much of blood were Sanguine. Those with too much of phlegm were Phlegmatic. Those with too much of yellow bile are choleric and those with too much of black bile were Melancholic. Menander and Plautus were contributions of characters based on humors.

Humor can be seen to serve a variety of purposes in male peer group cultures beyond sharing of a joke. Humor is context specific and it's strictly shaped by dynamics of social ideas, gender and ethnicity. In adolescent males and young men humor is apparent in studies during the academic time .The term includes some sort of entertainment or human communication which origins such feeling or makes people laugh or more happy.

The acceptance of humor differs from persons to persons. Humors often contain an unexpected or sudden shift in perspective. Jokes are often funny only when told first time. Once the issue in meaning is described through a joke; people immediately correct their impressions of symbols that have been mocked.

Definition of humor would be a sudden whim, but being so is not at all incorrect. Humor can put life's incompleteness into objectivity and also it can calm our winds of change. During our trials of our lives we need to get ourselves through trials and it could be achieved through humor. And for last, humor can be summarized as the ability to laugh at ourselves and to laugh with others.




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