出版社：Cracow Tertium Society for the Promotion of Language Studies
摘要：I first met Christie Davies in Cardiff in July 1976. The occasion was the First International Conference on Humour and Laughter, convened under the auspices of the Welsh Branch of the British Psychological Society. Neither Christie nor I were psychologists, but that did not matter, as the co-convenors, Hugh C. Foot and Anthony J. Chapman (both then at UWIST Cardiff1 ), had been at pains to point out that their Call for Proposals was very open. I was then living in the Bay Area of San Francisco and teaching at Stanford University.2 This had given me the inspiring experience of teaming up with William F. Fry Jr. (Psychiatry, Stanford), Arthur Asa Berger (Social Sciences, San Francisco State University), Wallace Chafe (Linguistics, University of California Santa Barbara) and others to set up the Bay Area Humor Association (BAHA). An informal and rewarding group, three members of it travelled to Cardiff, myself, Arthur Berger and Bill Fry.
