Humour is way of causing laughter and is present on a universal scale. It is found everywhere and is limited to the human race and thus connected with language. Humour however can also be seen outside of language, as in gestures, art, music etc,
In this course we shall try to define humour and to look and its various forms.
We shall discuss the wide range of humour: that used by children and primitive people and then turn to a kind of humour known as “wit” which appeals to more educated and sober people.
Humour has also been treated by philosophers. For Plato it had its origin in ugliness. For Bacon it was a kind of deformity. For Spencer it was the emotions and sensations which generated bodily movements and this idea continued in Freud as a release from repressed emotions.
Various kinds of humour will be discussed. These will include jokes, puns, spoonerisms, comic verse, parody etc.
Although humour is universal, there also particular kinds of humour used in various countries. We shall particularly look at European humour - and particularly English humour- as opposed to Japanese humour. （講師・記）

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