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Journal articles on the topic "Failed humor"

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Bell, Nancy D. "Responses to failed humor." Journal of Pragmatics 41, no. 9 (2009): 1825–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2008.10.010.

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Silvia, Bogdan. "Failed Humour and its Effects in Conversation: a Case Study." Speech and Context 1-2014, no. 6 (2017): 37–47. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.495133.

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Since humor is seen as an important socio-pragmatic discursive strategy, it may be assigned a significant role in regulating conversations. However, humor does not always have positive effects on the on-going conversations and its participants. It may also offend the interlocutors bringing about misunderstanding and confusion in communication, especially, when humor is ill-intended. Such instances of humor are referred to as failed humor, as what seems funny to the speaker may appear very rude to the hearer. The present article addresses the issue of failed humor and aims at analyzing the cases of unperceived as well as rejected humor in verbal interaction. Humor is generally unsuccessful when there is incongruity between the interlocutors’ speaking styles, resulting in an opposition between what is meant and how it is perceived.
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Silvia, Bogdan. "Failed Humour and its Effects in Conversation: a Case Study." Limbaj si context 1(VI)2014, no. 6 (2017): 37–47. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.807204.

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Since humor is seen as an important socio-pragmatic discursive strategy, it may be assigned a significant role in regulating conversations. However, humor does not always have positive effects on the on-going conversations and its participants. It may also offend the interlocutors bringing about misunderstanding and confusion in communication, especially, when humor is ill-intended. Such instances of humor are referred to as failed humor, as what seems funny to the speaker may appear very rude to the hearer. The present article addresses the issue of failed humor and aims at analyzing the cases of unperceived as well as rejected humor in verbal interaction. Humor is generally unsuccessful when there is incongruity between the interlocutors’ speaking styles, resulting in an opposition between what is meant and how it is perceived.
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Delos Santos, Ed May, Shania Faye Nicole Pablayan, Alexandra Salamat, et al. "Exploring the Impact of Leaders’ Failed Humor and Employee Attitude on Leader-Member Exchange." Academia Lasalliana Journal of Education and Humanities 5, no. 2 (2024): 117–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.55902/ckiw2371.

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While extensive research has been conducted on the general impact of humor on social relationships, the literature is notably sparse regarding the specific role of failed humor in organizational contexts, especially concerning leader-member exchange (LMX). This study aims to fill that gap by examining the effects of a leader’s failed humor on LMX and investigating whether employees’ attitudes toward humor can buffer this relationship. Employing a cross-sectional explanatory approach, the researchers distributed the Failed Humor in Leadership Questionnaire, the Multidimensional Sense of Humor Scale, and the Leader-Member Exchange Scale through an online survey targeting Filipino employees across various industries. A total of 302 participants—comprising 40.7% males and 59.3% females—voluntarily responded to the online survey. Path analysis using the partial least squares regression method via SMART-PLS software was employed to analyze the data. The findings indicate that a leader’s failed humor negatively impacts LMX, and this effect is not alleviated by the employee’s attitude toward humor. Interestingly, the study also found that employees who value humor and are themselves humorous reported stronger LMX. Based on these insights, the researchers offer recommendations for improving LMX in instances where leaders’ attempts at humor do not succeed. Additionally, future research directions to further investigate this phenomenon were also offered.
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Kim, Sol. "A narrative review of failed humor." Korea Journal of English Language and Linguistics 25 (January 31, 2025): 598–619. https://doi.org/10.15738/kjell.25..202505.598.

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Ji, Xiaode. "Leader Failed Humor and Follower Advice Seeking." Academy of Management Proceedings 2019, no. 1 (2019): 16032. http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2019.16032abstract.

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Mullan, Kerry, and Christine Béal. "Conversational humor in French and Australian English: What makes an utterance (un)funny?" Intercultural Pragmatics 15, no. 4 (2018): 457–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ip-2018-0016.

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AbstractIn this paper we focus primarily on the second dimension of the model designed for the comparative cross-cultural analysis of conversational humor outlined in (Béal, Christine & Kerry Mullan. 2013. Issues in conversational humour from a cross-cultural perspective: Comparing French and Australian corpora. In Bert Peeters, Kerry Mullan & Christine Béal (eds.),Cross-culturally Speaking, Speaking Cross-culturally. 107–139. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.), namely the linguistic devices and discursive strategies used by speakers to create humor in social interaction. Using a range of illustrative examples we will show that although a number of similar strategies occur in both the French and Australian English data (play on words, personification, implicit references, borrowing words from other languages), there are also marked differences in terms of preferential choices between French and Australian speakers when it comes to the mechanisms that make a particular utterance or exchange a humorous one. In particular, the French speakers in our data displayed a greater tendency to play with the language itself, while the Australians showed a preference for incongruity and absurdity, and collaborative scenarios with escalation.A number of comparative examples of failed humor are also examined. It will be seen that the responsibility for the failure in all cases lies less with the speaker and more with the hearer; i.e. the problem is not actually with the linguistic device employed, but with the hearer’s non-appreciation of the humor or lack of humor support.
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Qodri, Muh Syahrui, Muh Khairussibyan, Syamsinas Jafar, and Marlinda Ramdhani. "Anatomi Humor Drama Tradisional Rudat di Lombok." SULUK: Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, dan Budaya 6, no. 2 (2024): 112–27. https://doi.org/10.15642/suluk.2024.6.2.112-127.

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This research focuses on humor in the Rudat Temu Karya performance in southern East Lombok. Most previous studies only studied the story and value aspects of traditional Lombok drama performances, but failed to examine the aspect that is the main attraction for audiences, namely the humor aspect. Based on Berger's humor theory which divides humor techniques into four categories, namely language, logic, identity and action, this research examines the anatomical aspects of traditional Lombok drama humor which relate to the socio-cultural context of Lombok society. The data in this research was collected using interview and documentary methods. The results of this research show that the variations of techniques that are widely used are various humor techniques which include humor in language categories such as ridicule, theme and variations, insults, and puns (play on words). The most dominant technique used is the slapstick technique (rough jokes/jokes) which is included in the action category. Research on this aspect of humor shows that socio-cultural aspects influence the success of humor in rudat Temu Karya performances.
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Wang, Ying. "The Effect of Leader Humor on Subordinates’ Working Status: A Meta-Analysis." Asian Business Research 7, no. 2 (2022): 61. http://dx.doi.org/10.20849/abr.v7i2.1064.

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Leader humor in workplace can change the working state of subordinates. However, existing empirical studies have failed to determine whether the effect of positive and negative leader humor on the working status of subordinates is normal, or whether the effect of leader humor in profit and non-profit organizations or under Eastern and Western culture background is also different. To answer these questions, literature on the relationship between Leader humor and subordinate working status from 2009 to 2020 was searched, and 56 effect values of positive leader humor (a total of 16544 samples) and 24 effect values of negative leader humor (a total of 7781 samples) were obtained. The results of meta-analysis show that: (1)There is a significant positive relationship between positive leader humor and subordinates’ work status, while there is a significant negative relationship between negative leader humor and subordinates’ work status; (2) Positive leader humor promotes the subordinates’ behavior state improving by ameliorating their positive psychological state or attitude state in the workplace; (3)Negative leader humor inhibits the subordinates’ behavior state improving by incurring their negative psychological state or attitude state in the workplace.
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Williams, Michele, and Kyle J. Emich. "The Phenomenology of Failed Humor: Implications for Interpersonal Affect Regulation." Academy of Management Proceedings 2013, no. 1 (2013): 17156. http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2013.143.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Failed humor"

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Ferretti, Silvia. "Failed Cross-Cultural Humor in English-Italian Interactions." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2020. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/20568/.

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The aim of this dissertation is to investigate why some humor attempts in cross-cultural interaction between English and Italians can fail. Although both countries are located in the same continent, are only divided by about 2,000 km and share a lot of similarities, they also have profound cultural and language-related differences. In particular, cultural differences and language-related problems are often the cause of misunderstandings and awkwardness in cross-cultural interaction, and humor understanding and production is particularly challenging for L2 speakers. For this reason, understanding the causes behind some failed humor attempts could be an effective way to gain a deeper understanding of humor dynamics in both cultures, without forgetting the role played by individual factors. The aim of this dissertation will be achieved through the analysis of 23 examples of recorded interaction taken from TV shows, interviews and podcasts in which there were (at least) one Italian and one English interlocutor and (at least) one of them was an L2 speaker of the other language. Most examples are taken from food-related broadcasts and football interviews and press conferences, as both fields of emerged as the ones with some of the most prominent shares of Italian native interlocutors, given that Italian cuisine is highly appreciated in the UK and that many Italian managers and footballers are hired by Premier League football clubs.
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Béranger, Eliane. "Rire / faire rire et chemin spirituel : une esthétique de la dévotion /." [S.l. : s.n], 2004. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb41011912j.

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Montlahuc, Pascal. "Le pouvoir des bons mots : "faire rire" et politique à Rome du milieu du IIIe siècle a.C. à l'avènement des Antonins." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016USPCC130.

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Ce travail reconstitue les mécanismes humoristiques propres à la concurrence politique des époques tardo-républicaine et impériale, dans le but de montrer les adaptations du risum mouere aux changements politiques et sociaux intervenus durant cette période. Il s’agit de dépasser une lecture théorique centrée sur le rire de l’homo urbanus et du bon orateur proposée par Cicéron et Quintilien pour lui préférer une lecture historicisée et combinatoire, considérant les orateurs, les traits d’esprit, les auditoires et les causes politiques comme un tout à l’agencement variable de ce que les Modernes nomment l’« humour politique ». Scrutant les divers contextes politiques de cet humour (les procès, le Sénat, les contiones, le Forum, la campagne militaire ou encore la rue), la recherche souligne également le passage, selon des rythmes syncopés résultant d’un repli de la causticité aristocratique face à César mais qui perdure à l’époque triumvirale, d’un « faire rire » frontal articulé autour du succès oratoire vers un humour fondé sur l’anonymat des correspondances, des graffitis ou des chants du triomphe. La dernière partie du travail, centrée sur le premier siècle du Principat, part de l’opposition établie par des sources pro-sénatoriales entre les « bons princes » et les « tyrans » pour mieux montrer que, ne se limitant pas à refuser ou à accepter le rire politique selon son degré de dangerosité pour leur autorité politique, les princes utilisèrent également le rire à leur profit, entretenant par là une « inaccessible accessibilité » au fondement du charisme impérial, permettant l’aboutissement de la « Révolution romaine »<br>This work explores the links between risum mouere and Roman political competition from the two last centuries of the Republic to the beginnings of the Principate. It is necessary to go beyond a critical discussion of the influential theories of the good orator and homo urbanus (mostly conceptualized by Cicero and Quintilian) and instead to adopt a historicizing and complex reading of the phenomenon, conceiving political humor as an ever-changing object shaped by orators, jokes, audiences, and political struggles. In order to understand its role in the roman city, political humor thus needs to be considered as a contextualized whole. The first part of the dissertation considers risum mouere in the context of trials, in the Senate, on the Forum, in the street or at war. Each of these case studies reveals a type of political humor that is freely and openly used in public life. The second part tries to determine what impact Caesar’s rise and the triumvirs had on political competition and, at the same time, on the possibilities of using political humor in the city. This section sheds light on the multiple ways in which the aristocrats and people of Rome continued to mock the powerful (Caesar, Antony and Octavian) by using more discreet channels (correspondence, graffiti, triumphal songs), and how these enabled them to keep expressing strong political opposition, which was otherwise dangerous to address in broad daylight. The third and last part focuses on the first century A.D. and discusses the opposition elaborated by ancient authors between the “good prince”, who was naturally comfortable with political humor, and the repressive “tyrant”. A critical study of the literary documentation shows that every Princeps tended to discourage political humor when it meant an effective danger for the imperial authority, but also that emperors knew how to use laughter and humor to create a form of “inapproachable approachability” which constituted a foundation of imperial charisma and strengthened the new regime, born from the “Roman revolution”
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Terrell-Curtis, Kara Beth. "Representative form and the visual ideograph : the Obama "Hope" poster." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/3884.

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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)<br>In this study, Janis Edwards and Carol Winkler’s method, based on Michael McGee’s ideograph, is applied to non-discursive forms in order to understand the extent to which these images can be understood as a representative form functioning ideographically. Artifacts for analysis include the 2008 Shepard Fairey Obama “PROGRESS” and “HOPE” images, related campaign graphics, and parodies, political and non-political, humorous and serious. Literature on visual rhetoric, the ideograph, and extensions of McGee’s ideograph to visual forms was reviewed. When the method was applied to the artifacts, the Obama “HOPE” image was found to be an example of a representative form. Additionally, the representative form was demonstrated to function ideographically in the parodied examples analyzed in this thesis. Opportunities for further study on the visual ideograph and additional artifacts were proposed.
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Books on the topic "Failed humor"

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King, Florence. Confessions of a failed southern lady. Joseph, 1985.

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King, Florence. Confessions of a failed southern lady. Black Swan, 1986.

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Toler, Stan. God has never failed me, but He's sure scared me to death a few times. 2nd ed. David C. Cook, 2009.

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Toler, Stan. God has never failed me, but He sure has scared me to death a few times! Honor Books, 1995.

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Toler, Stan. God has never failed me, but He sure has scared me to death a few times! Honor Books, 1998.

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Strosser, Ed. Stupid wars: A handbook of botched putsches, failed coups, inane invasions, and ridiculous revolutions. HarperCollins, 2008.

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Piven, Joshua. The worst-case scenario survival handbook: Dating & sex. Chronicle Books, 2001.

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Piven, Joshua. The worst-case scenario survival handbook. Chronicle Books, 1999.

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Piven, Joshua. Kono hōhō de ikinobiru! Sōshisha, 2001.

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Piven, Joshua. The worst-case scenario survival handbook. Wan Li, 2003.

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Book chapters on the topic "Failed humor"

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Bell, Nancy D. "Failed Humor." In The Routledge Handbook of Language and Humor. Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315731162-25.

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Priego-Valverde, Béatrice. "Failed humor in conversation." In Humor in Interaction. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/pbns.182.08pri.

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Bell, Nancy. "Impolite responses to failed humor." In Humor in Interaction. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/pbns.182.07bel.

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Alvarado Ortega, M. Belén. "Failed humor in conversational utterances in Spanish." In Irony and Humor. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/pbns.231.12alv.

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Bischetti, Luca, and Salvatore Attardo. "From mode adoption to saluting a dead kitten." In Pragmatics & Beyond New Series. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/pbns.335.03bis.

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There has been some research in what can be broadly described as humor performance in the reactions to humorous turns (be they punch lines or jab lines). Two areas that have received particular attention are (1) the reactions to irony, which have been shown to range from mode adoption (i.e., when the respondent adopts the ironical mode and responds with irony to the irony) to treating the irony as a “literal” statement and reacting to it ignoring its ironical intention; and (2) failed humor, in which the range of reactions is much broader, from laughter to open expression of displeasure. Much less has been written on reactions in online discourse and this case study of one humorous tweet by comedian Ricky Gervais, mocking the Academy Award ceremony (the Oscars), will be examined to examine the differences between a corpus of 200+ tweets as responses to Gervais’ original tweet, and proviso studies. We will also consider how much the exchange can be quantified as to its viral nature.
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Bell, Nancy, and Martin Lampert. "9 Failed Humor." In De Gruyter Handbook of Humor Studies. De Gruyter, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110755770-010.

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"Failed conversational humor." In Figurative Thought and Language. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1075/ftl.13.c6.

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"2. Conceptualizing Failed Humor." In We Are Not Amused. De Gruyter Mouton, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781501501586-005.

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"3. Failed Humor as Miscommunication." In We Are Not Amused. De Gruyter Mouton, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781501501586-006.

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"4. Triggers of Failed Humor." In We Are Not Amused. De Gruyter Mouton, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781501501586-007.

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