Humor has been under study for years, centuries even. So much time as passed and so many people have tried to understand its purpose and its mechanisms that, in order to study comedies in future works we needed to find out what were the functions and apparatus of humor that most authors would agree on, although we weren't able to look at all that has been produced on the subject. The two main theories on which we focused our study were Henri Bergson's through his book Le rire which he wrote as early as 1900 and the theories of humor which have been offered by Viktor Raskin and Salvatore Attardo in the 1980's and 2000's. By mixing a theory based on comedies and a theory based on semantics and pragmatics, the social factor of humor, either as a mark of communion or not with society or a way to deal with somebody's own feelings in society, as well as its need for duality, conflict and shifting nature were made obvious to us.
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