The European Journal of Humour Research

Vol 5, No 4 (2017)

Two lessons from Christie Davies

Salvatore Attardo

Abstract

Two important methodological lessons are highlighted, using examples from Christie Davies’ work: the significance of negative evidence and of terminological precision.

References

Davies, C. (1998). ‘The dog that didn’t bark in the night: A new sociological approach to the cross cultural study of humor’, in Ruch, W. (ed.), The Sense of Humor, Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 293–306.

Davies, C. (2000). ‘Questions of power and theory: A reply to Salvatore Attardo’, Humor: International Journal of Humor Research 13(4), pp. 469–72.