{"id":19,"date":"2016-01-05T23:54:07","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T23:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/zacks\/?page_id=19"},"modified":"2016-02-08T18:42:31","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T18:42:31","slug":"rhetoric-of-laughter-sp16","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/zacks\/rhetoric-of-laughter-sp16\/","title":{"rendered":"309K Rhetoric of Laughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Assignments:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/utexas.instructure.com\/courses\/1164919\/assignments\/3785750\">EX SB50 Ads<\/a>\u00a0(homework)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/utexas.instructure.com\/courses\/1164919\/quizzes\/1094317\">EX WTD Ignorance vs. Stupidity\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0(in class)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.evernote.com\/l\/AQAN9FenHMlDBprDcolKG6OHn47bLqdOIf0\">Weems reading annotated<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>Weeks wants his readers to understand laughter as:<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;a psychological coping mechanism&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;a process of conflict resolution&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Conflict that may be internal (personal), social, or both<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>What does Weams mean when he says, &#8220;Laughter is simply what happens as we work through the details&#8221;?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>&#8220;Under the right circumstances,&#8221; Weems says, &#8220;almost anything can make us laugh.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>How does this observation relate to our study of the rhetoric of laughter? Or how should it relate?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assignments: EX SB50 Ads\u00a0(homework) EX WTD Ignorance vs. Stupidity\u00a0\u00a0(in class) Weems reading annotated Weeks wants his readers to understand laughter as: &#8220;a psychological coping mechanism&#8221; &#8220;a process of conflict resolution&#8221; Conflict that may be internal (personal), social, or both What does Weams mean when he says, &#8220;Laughter is simply what happens as we work through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":154,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"nosidebar-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-19","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/zacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/zacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/zacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/zacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/zacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/zacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":358,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/zacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions\/358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/zacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/zacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}