Rhetorical situation

Sender

The sender of the article “The Link Between Happiness and a Sense of Humor” is Arthur C. Brooks, a famous columnist and social scientist. Brooks attempts to explain the connection between humor and happiness, a topic that he has analyzed extensively throughout his career. For example, Brooks published the survey Gross National Happiness: Why Happiness Matters for America—and How We Can Get More of It in 2008, and looked at the individual and nationwide happiness of Americans. 

Brooks is also the host of a weekly column How to Build a Happy Life and the author of several books on finding happiness. Therefore, his experience with the concept of happiness gives him authority and makes him trustworthy in the eyes of the readers.

Receiver and medium

The article was published in The Atlantic, which is an American magazine tha...