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1. without betraying any feeling; "she told the joke deadpan"
2. deliberately impassive in manner; "deadpan humor"; "his face remained expressionless as the verdict was read" (同)expressionless, impassive, poker-faced, unexpressive

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1. 無表情な,感情を顔に表さない

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Deadpan is a form of comic delivery in which humor is presented without a change in emotion or body language, usually speaking in a casual, monotone or cantankerous voice and expressing an unflappably calm, archly insincere or artificially grave demeanor, often in spite of the ridiculousness of the subject matter. This delivery is also called dry humor or dry wit; when the intent, but not the presentation, is humorous, blunt, oblique, sarcastic or apparently unintentional.

Etymology

The term "deadpan" first emerged as an adjective or adverb in the 1920s, as a compound word combining "dead" and "pan" (a slang term for the face). The oldest usage recorded by the Oxford English Dictionary comes from the New York Times (1928), which defines the term as "playing a rôle with expressionless face". A good example of this usage is in a scene from the 1934 film The Gay Bride in which a gangster tells a man on the other end of a phone conversation to "Give it a dead pan," (with the emphasis on "pan") so that the man doesn't inadvertently alert anyone else in the room as to the importance of what the gangster is about to say. The usage of deadpan as a verb ('to speak, act, or utter in a deadpan manner; to maintain a dead pan') is recorded at least as far back as 1942.

Many popular American sitcoms also use deadpan expressions to deliver dry humor, most notably Parks and Recreation, Arrested Development, The Office and Seinfeld. Dry humor is often confused with highbrow or egghead humor, because the humor in dry humor does not exist in the words, their delivery, or both. Instead, the listener must look for humor in the contradiction between words, delivery, and context. Failure to include the context or to identify the contradiction results in the listener finding the dry humor unfunny. However, the term "deadpan" itself actually only refers to the method of delivery.

See also

• Throwaway line
• Blank expression
• Dark humor
• Minimisation (psychology)
• Unintentional humor

References

English Journal

• The bHLH factor deadpan is a direct target of Notch signaling and regulates neuroblast self-renewal in Drosophila.

• San-Juan BP, Baonza A.SourceCentro de Biologia Molecular Severo Ochoa-Consejo Superior Investigaciones Cientificas, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Nicolas Cabrera 1, 28049, Madrid, Spain.
• Developmental biology.Dev Biol.2011 Apr 1;352(1):70-82. Epub 2011 Jan 22.
• A defining feature of stem cells is their capacity to renew themselves at each division while producing differentiated progeny. How these cells balance self-renewal versus differentiation is a fundamental issue in developmental and cancer biology. The Notch signaling pathway has long been known to i
• PMID 21262215

• Sex and the single embryo: early deveiopment in the Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata.

• Gabrieli P, Falaguerra A, Siciliano P, Gomulski LM, Scolari F, Zacharopoulou A, Franz G, Malacrida AR, Gasperi G.SourceDepartment of Animal Biology, University of Pavia, Piazza Botta 9, 27100 Pavia, Italy. gasperi@unipv.it.
• BMC developmental biology.BMC Dev Biol.2010 Jan 26;10:12.
• BACKGROUND: In embryos the maternal-to-zygotic transition (MTZ) integrates post-transcriptional regulation of maternal transcripts with transcriptional activation of the zygotic genome. Although the molecular mechanisms underlying this event are being clarified in Drosophila melanogaster, little is
• PMID 20102629

• Neural stem cell transcriptional networks highlight genes essential for nervous system development.

• Southall TD, Brand AH.SourceThe Gurdon Institute and The Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
• The EMBO journal.EMBO J.2009 Dec 16;28(24):3799-807.
• Neural stem cells must strike a balance between self-renewal and multipotency, and differentiation. Identification of the transcriptional networks regulating stem cell division is an essential step in understanding how this balance is achieved. We have shown that the homeodomain transcription factor
• PMID 19851284

Japanese Journal

• "デッドパン"へのアプローチ : バスター・キートンとマークトウェインのアメリカンヒューモアをめぐって

• 朝日 由紀子
• 研究紀要 31, 45-58, 1992
• NAID 110000284026

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