Responding to "Feeling Tone Interpretation"
Hello, all! Once again I will be responding to a blog post. This week that blog post is by John. John posted about an interesting concept that he calls
Now, what exactly is Feeling Tone Interpretation?
The way that John describes it, Feeling Tone Interpretation is essentially that fact that every word, phrase, event, etc. elicits an immediate and automatic feeling or emotion that we then must interpret. It's your first impression!
Now, I have no idea where John got this concept. Maybe he read somewhere, maybe he heard it somewhere, maybe he came up with it himself - but I absolutely love it! I think that it is a genius concept that has so many applications and uses. And, it is so relevant to our discussions of comedy!
John uses this video to further his explanation.
John uses the video as an example as he expounds upon his points about Feeling Tone Interpretation. As the video makes clear, Feeling Tone Interpretation can change when the context of the word, phrase, event, etc. changes. Just like how your impression of a person can change after you get to know them and find out more about them.
I find this to be such a great and applicable theory in many situations. I mean, it literally applies to every moment of our lives! And, it's not exclusive to comedy. Feeling Tone Interpretation quite literally describes every moment that we, as humans, experience. You know that feeling when you discover a new concept that you've been experiencing all of your life, but you just didn't know the name for it? Hello!
Most of all, to bring it back to the comedy side of things, I love how John relates the concept of Feeling Tone Interpretation to the concept of incongruity theory. As in the video example, a piece of comedy falling under the umbrella of incongruity theory is funny when the Feeling Tone Interpretation changes from what it originally was when the word, phrase, event, etc. was first presented to a new emotion.
Genius I tell you! Pure genius! I wish I had come up with it all myself. :)
Most of all, to bring it back to the comedy side of things, I love how John relates the concept of Feeling Tone Interpretation to the concept of incongruity theory. As in the video example, a piece of comedy falling under the umbrella of incongruity theory is funny when the Feeling Tone Interpretation changes from what it originally was when the word, phrase, event, etc. was first presented to a new emotion.
Genius I tell you! Pure genius! I wish I had come up with it all myself. :)
Until next time,
Always Laugh Lots!!!
- Anna Kathleen Spitler <3
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Glad you found that concept so helpful! I agree that it is a very powerful idea. It seems that John derived it from music theory, but a similar concept, "affect," is very important in the humanities. Basically, affect refers to the way different experiences and feelings affect us: in other words, how a feeling feels. Pure sensations apart from a social context have an amorphous quality to them that can change. It is impossible to experience a pure feeling.
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