"grins and giggles" meaning in English

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          "text": "While functional grins and giggles belong to the \"intentional\" communicative weaponry of a sovereign subject, the comic situation may on occasion produce a characteristic power-reversal whereby laughter assumes mastery over its subject, reducing him or her to a gibbering wretch rolling about on the floor and clutching his or her sides.",
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