Paper Session 1A
Humor and Religion

Paper Session 1B
Humor Conceptions

Paper Session 1C
Humor in Literature

George Bernard Shaw Makes
Fun of Organized Religion: The
Devil's Desciple and Other Pious
People of the Church

Gladys Crane
Laramie, Wyoming

"And Muhammad Laughed":
The Spirit of Laughter in
the Traditions of the Prophet

The Origin and Evolution of
the Word, Humor

Vera C. Machline
Pontificia Universidade Catolica
de Sao Paulo
& William F. Fry
Stanford University

The Origins of Satire in
Societies and Civilizations
George E. C. Paton
Aston University

"Waiting is Funny": An Analysis
of Dramatic Black Comedy
Kristen A. Murray
University of New South Wales

Moliere's Sganarelle:
In His Majesty's Painful Service

James F. Gaines
Southeastern Louisiana University

The Ambiguous Gracioso in
the Theatre of Lopo de Vega

Luis A. Martinez
Western New Mexico University

Much Ado about Bachelorhood:
Shakespeare and the Ambiguity
of Happiness

Josephine A. Roberts
Lousiana State University

Paper Session 3A
Humor, Creativity, & Madness

Paper Session 3B
Humor Conceptions

Paper Session 3C
Humor in Literature

Humor vs. Burnout:
An Organizational Analysis
of Principals and Teachers

R. Wilburn Clouse
Vanderbilt University
& Karen Spurgeon
Battlefield Elementary School

Humor Styles and Leadership Styles
for the Third Millennium

Whatever it is, I'm Against:
Writing Satire

Mary Anne Rishel
Ithaca College

Humor's Nasty Relatives:
Enjoying Bad Things
Dan Lyons
Colorado State University

Are You in the Right Mind?
Joyce M. Saltman
Southern Connecticutt State University

The Cognitive Architecture of Humor:
A Synthesis of Theory
William F. Fry
Stanford University

P. G. Wodehouse and
the Mock Pastoral

Laura Donohue
University of East Anglia

Benign Humor: The Whimsy,
Nonsense, and Fantasy of
Lewis Carroll, Kenneth Grahame,
Edward Lear, & Beatix Potter

Don D. L. F. Nilsen
Arizona State University

Humor Expectations: An Analysis
of the "Breach of Promise" Scene from
Charles Dickens' Pickwick Papers
Sandra Nagy
Arizona State University

Paper Session 4A
Humor in the Media

Paper Session 4B
Ethnic Humor

Paper Session 4C
Humor in Literature

Japanese Pun in Mass Media

Heiyo Nagashima
Japan Society for Laughter
and Humor Studies

Comedy and Interatial Relations
in Contemporary French Cinema

What do We Laugh at in Norway:
Gender Difference in the Practice
and Enjoyment of Humor

Birgit H. Johnsen
Norwegian Folklore Archives

The Geography of Scandinavian Jokes
Christie Davies
The University of Reading

Febold Feboldson meets Paul Bunyon:
Tall Tales among Swedish Pioneers
at Gothenberg, Nebraska
Dale Anderson
Bloomsburg University

Gender, Class, and Telling Jokes:
Differences in the Appreciation
and Telling of "Canned Jokes"
in the Netherlands
Giselinde Kuipers
Amsterdam School
for Social Science Research

Comedy and Ideology:
The Work of Leo Baxendale,
the Master of Bash Street

David Cornwall
University of Strathclyde
& Sandy Hobbs
University of Paisley

Trusting the Honest Liar:
the Unwittingly Humorous
Narrator in Liza Cody's London
Lassassin Crime Novels

Jane S. Bakerman
Indiana State University

Dracula in the
Post-Communist Romania

Jon Barbu & Mihal Barbu
Romanian Journalist Association

Dave Barry's Books:
Sophomoric Humor for Adults

James B. Carothers
University of Kansas

Paper Session 7A
Slaughterhouse 5 Symposium

Paper Session 7B
Prison, Police, and Law Humor

Paper Session 7C
Analysis of Humorous Stories

Cognitive and Emotional in
Slaughterhouse 5

Peter Derks
College of William and Mary

Stolen Teapots, Wizard Chaps,
and Flying Saucers

Are There Laughs to be Found
in Prison: Uses of Humor among
and between Inmates and Guards

Laurie Young & Kay Caskey
Western Michigan University

Connections between
Sense of Humor and Work Performance
of Senior Police Officers
Paavo Kerkkanen
Medivire Occupational Health
Services Company

Ludicrous Laws and Lawsuits
Lance S. Davidson
Attorney at Law, Scottsdale, Arizona

Analysis of Humor in Short Stories
in the Light of "Frame Pragmatics"
Wladislaw Chlopicki
Jagiellonian University

Graphic Jokes and Metarepresentation

Rebeca. P. Navarro & Herman L. Hormaza
Cognicion y Cultura Universidad
del Valle, Cali, Columbia

Trying Translation Test

Margaret Hart
Universidad de las Palmas
de Gran Canaria

Line of Parody, or a Funny Thing
Happened to Me on the Way
to the Formula
Richard Henry
State University of New York

Paper Session 8A
Comedy and Satire

Paper Session 8B
Developmental Aspects

Paper Session 8C
Humor Coping and Health

Interaction: The Stand-Up
Comedian's Relationship
with the Alternative Comedy
Club Audience

Catriona Craig
University of London

The Evolution of Women
as Stand-Up Comedians

Harald Hoffding's " The Great Humour":
A Useful Background for the Study
of Children's Humour

Hans Vejleskov
Royal Danish School of Educational Studies

Investment of the Form and Function
of Humour in Adolescence
Martin Fuhr
Royal Danish School of Educational Studies

Humor, Lonliness, and
Peer Acceptance in Children
Frode Sobstad
Queen Maud's College of
Early Childhood Education

Aspects and Function of Humor
Lotte Linge
Sweden

Effects of Humor in Exposure Therapy
with Anxiety Disorders

Sharron Orovan & Adrienne Sloan
East Region Mental Health Service
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Studies of Preference for Supportive
Humor in Nursing Students

Fumiko Kobayashi, Yuki Ikeda,
& Kanji Hatta
Mie Prefectural College of Nursing

The Use of Humor in Multicultural
Counciling

Fabio M. Federico
American Psychological Association

Prevalence of Sense of Humor, Moods,
and Common Bodily Complaints in
County Population from Age 20 and Up:
The Significance of Gender and Age

Sven Svebak
Nowegian University of
Science & Technology

Paper Session 11A
Workplace Humor, Ethics, and Culture

Paper Session 11B
Laughter

Why does the Riddle of the Day Last
Much More Than a Day

Kopi Saltman
Rock Hill School, Wallingford, Connecticutt

It's Only a Puppet: Larry the Loafer, Fiction and Norms

Perceived Correlates of Health Promoting Laughter:
A Cross-Cultural Comparison

Diana Mahony & W. Jeffrey Buroughs
Brigham Young University, Hawaii
& Louis G. Lippman
Western Washington University

Sixteenth Century Conceptions of Laughter
Vera Cecilia Machline
Pontificia Universidade Catolica de Sao Paulo

Varieties of Risible Experience: Laughter as
Objective Correlative in 20th Century American Literature
Del G. Kehl
Arizona State University