Laughter : An Essay On the Meaning of the Comic
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Most words mightbe said to have a PHYSICAL and a MORAL meaning, according as they areinterpreted literally or figuratively. Every word, indeed, begins bydenoting a concrete object or a material action; but by degrees themeaning of the word is refined into an abstract relation or a pureidea. If, then, the above law holds good here, it should be stated asfollows: "A comic effect is obtained whenever we pretend to takeliterally an expression which was used figuratively"; or, "Once ourattention is ...fixed on the material aspect of a metaphor, the ideaexpressed becomes comic. " In the phrase, "Tous les arts sont freres" (all the arts are brothers), the word "frere" (brother) is used metaphorically to indicate a more orless striking resemblance. The word is so often used in this way, thatwhen we hear it we do not think of the concrete, the materialconnection implied in every relationship. We should notice it more ifwe were told that "Tous les arts sont cousins, " for the word "cousin"is not so often employed in a figurative sense; that is why the wordhere already assumes a slight tinge of the comic.
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Most words mightbe said to have a PHYSICAL and a MORAL meaning, according as they areinterpreted literally or figuratively. Every word, indeed, begins bydenoting a concrete object or a material action; but by degrees themeaning of the word is refined into an abstract relation or a pureidea. If, then, the above law holds good here, it should be stated asfollows: "A comic effect is obtained whenever we pretend to takeliterally an expression which was used figuratively"; or, "Once ourattention is ...fixed on the material aspect of a metaphor, the ideaexpressed becomes comic. " In the phrase, "Tous les arts sont freres" (all the arts are brothers), the word "frere" (brother) is used metaphorically to indicate a more orless striking resemblance. The word is so often used in this way, thatwhen we hear it we do not think of the concrete, the materialconnection implied in every relationship. We should notice it more ifwe were told that "Tous les arts sont cousins, " for the word "cousin"is not so often employed in a figurative sense; that is why the wordhere already assumes a slight tinge of the comic.
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