Journal articles: 'Humour in literature'

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Scheil, Andrew P., and Jonathan Wilcox. "Humour in Anglo-Saxon Literature." Modern Language Review 98, no. 4 (October 2003): 946. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3737936.

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Hołobut, Agata, and Władysław Chłopicki. "Editorial: Humour in nonsense literature." European Journal of Humour Research 5, no. 3 (November 21, 2017): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.7592/ejhr2017.5.3.holobut.

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Kouser, Hina V., Fatima Khan, Ayesha Tehseen, Mohd Nayab, and Abdul Nasir Ansari. "Understanding the concept of Purgation (Ishal) in Unani Medicine: A Review." Journal of Drug Delivery and Therapeutics 11, no. 2 (March 15, 2021): 241–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.22270/jddt.v11i2.4584.

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The theory of humours (akhlat) is one of the fundamental pillars of the Unani System of Medicine (USM). The concept of health and disease depends on the quality (kaifiyat) and quantity (kammiyat) of humour (khilt). Health (sehat) lasts when humours remain in equilibrium and the main determinant of health is the balance in six essential factors (asbab-e-sittah zarooriya). These factors are highly modifiable and deviation in any of them leads to disequilibrium in humours either qualitatively or quantitatively which ultimately manifests in the form of the disease. Elimination (istifragh) of these morbid humours from the body becomes mandatory to treat the diseases or to restore health. One of the effective methods of elimination is purgation (ishal). It is a method by which morbid humours from the body are eliminated through the anal route. Before the elimination of any pathological humour especially in chronic diseases, it is mandatory to make the humour easily eliminable. This process of making the pathological humour eliminable is known as concoction (nuzj). The process of concoction is a regular and continuous process of the tabiyat (mediatrix naturae) of the body. In case of a minor deviation in humour, tabiyat itself eliminates it from the body after concoction. When the causative pathological humours are in abundance or grossly deviated from normalcy, tabiyat needs help from outside the body. This help of tabiyat can be done with some humour specific drugs which are known as concoctive medicines (munzij advia). Once, the humours become eliminable, the process of evacuation can be started. Classical Unani literature and published papers were explored to find the rationale of purgation therapy. Purgation is found to be advisable in the treatment of many chronic diseases. Tabiyat is the ultimate healer in the body and purgation helps it to overcome the diseases. Keywords: Istifragh; Munzij; Nuzj; Akhlat; Humours; Concoction

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Wieland, Gernot. "Humour in Anglo-Saxon Literature. Jonathan Wilcox." Speculum 77, no. 4 (October 2002): 1411–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3301316.

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Chinery, Winifred. "Alleviating Stress with Humour: A Literature Review." Journal of Perioperative Practice 17, no. 4 (April 2007): 172–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/175045890701700403.

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Corduas, Marcella, Salvatore Attardo, and Alyson Eggleston. "The distribution of humour in literary texts is not random: a statistical analysis." Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics 17, no. 3 (August 2008): 253–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963947008092505.

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The article presents statistical evidence for the claim that the distribution of humor in Oscar Wilde's Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Douglas Adams's The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy is not random and differs significantly between both texts. Using the methodology of the General Theory of Verbal Humor, all the instances of humour in both texts were identified and recorded. The distance between each instance was then calculated and subjected to analysis. The statistical model used to prove the hypotheses is explained in some detail and some hypotheses to explain the findings are presented. The significance of the finding that the distribution of humour in long texts is not random is found to lie in having introduced a new fact in need of explanation through literary theories.

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Pindur, Szymon. "A linguistic study of humour and allusions in J. R. R. Tolkien’s "Farmer Giles of Ham"." Beyond Philology An International Journal of Linguistics, Literary Studies and English Language Teaching, no. 16/3 (September 18, 2019): 25–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.26881/bp.2019.3.02.

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“Farmer Giles of Ham” is a satirical story by J. R. R. Tolkien. It is full of humour and allusions. The diversity of these elements allows for a detailed linguistic study distinguishing different levels at which the humour can be found and the different ways in which it is achieved. In the present paper, we attempt to discuss these devices and levels of humour and draw some conclusions on their effects. Our study is reinforced by a discussion of theoretical preliminaries of humour analysis, including the classification of the different levels, forms and devices of humour, as well as a brief discussion of the most widely acknowledged theory of humour ‒ the incongruity theory. Using this theoretical framework, we explore the possibilities of viewing the phenomenon of humour in literature from a linguistic perspective and attempt to show the utility of this perspective in literature studies.

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Vitali, Ilaria. "Humour(s) et humeur(s), dossier coordonné par Rosalia Bivona." Studi Francesi, no. 163 (LV | I) (May 1, 2011): 221–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/studifrancesi.6122.

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Tap, William D., David K. Mtetwa, and Joseph C. Vere. "Types of Humour Categories Used to Generate and Maintain Interest in Mathematics Among Secondary School Students in South Sudan’s Displaced and Re-settled Communities." Journal of Education and Training Studies 9, no. 2 (January 24, 2021): 14. http://dx.doi.org/10.11114/jets.v9i2.5140.

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While there has been appreciable consensus among humour researchers as well as classroom teachers that the use of humour in the classroom setting can be an effective teaching tool, there is still, however, a dearth of literature available that classroom practitioners could use as a guide in actual practice. Most of the literature currently available tends to address the potential use of classroom humour in general, and does not go into the specifics of exactly “what types of humour forms” are effective. This article addresses this question in the context of a secondary school mathematics classroom in South Sudan’s displaced and re-settled communities, where the lesson plans used in the intervention were infused and laced with instructional humour–humour related to the mathematics concepts being discussed–for the purpose of generating and maintaining student interest in mathematics. Using a researcher constructed observation sheet (RCOS) as the research instrument for capturing the desired qualitative data, five specific literature recommended humour types or categories (namely: mathematical jokes, puns, riddles, related stories and funny-multiple choice items) were used and identified as the ones that generated and maintained interest among the South Sudanese secondary school students. Classroom teachers who would like to use classroom humour for the purpose of motivating and inspiring their students may find the information contained in this article useful, as a practical-reference classroom guide.

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Ellis, David. "Byron's Sense of Humour." Romanticism 17, no. 1 (April 2011): 106–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/rom.2011.0010.

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Lancaster, Connie, and Peter Phillips. "How does the use of humour in the UK ambulance service affect a clinician’s well-being?" British Paramedic Journal 6, no. 2 (September 1, 2021): 26–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.29045/14784726.2021.9.6.2.26.

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Introduction: Paramedics and ambulance staff face many different stresses in today’s UK ambulance service, with many having reported an effect on their well-being and mental health. Humour is widely used by staff as a coping mechanism, but little is known about this topic. This literature review aims to find out how humour is used and how it can affect clinicians’ well-being.Methods: A total of nine medical databases were searched for relevant literature ‐ Cochrane, Scopus, CINAHL Complete, Science Direct, Medline Complete, Complementary Index, Academic Search Complete, Emerald Insight and Supplemental Index. Articles were included if they were published in 2005 or after, if they were a UK-based original study and if they studied humour in relation to paramedics’ well-being.Results: After limiters were applied, a total of 26 articles were found. Only four articles met all the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Two of the articles studied humour directly, whereas two found humour as a result of studying the resilience and strategies used to cope with the stresses of ambulance work. Four key themes were identified: different types of humour, the source and boundaries of humour, offloading and camaraderie.Conclusion: This review of the literature found that many in the ambulance community view their use and expression of humour as a positive coping strategy that helps them to relieve the stresses of the job. Further research is needed to investigate any negative effects that humour has on a clinician’s well-being and larger studies are needed to give a better representation of the ambulance community.

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Haire, Nicky, and Raymond MacDonald. "Humour in music therapy: A narrative literature review." Nordic Journal of Music Therapy 28, no. 4 (February 14, 2019): 273–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08098131.2019.1577288.

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Waite, Greg. "Humour in Anglo-Saxon Literature (review)." Parergon 18, no. 3 (2001): 244–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/pgn.2011.0181.

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Schulten, Paul. "LATE-ANTIQUE HUMOUR." Classical Review 54, no. 2 (October 2004): 449–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cr/54.2.449.

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Phillips, H. "Poussin's Humour." French Studies 65, no. 1 (December 17, 2010): 88–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/fs/knq233.

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Chiew, Tung Moi, Christine Mathies, and Paul Patterson. "The effect of humour usage on customer’s service experiences." Australian Journal of Management 44, no. 1 (September 5, 2018): 109–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0312896218775799.

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Cross-disciplinary research recognises humour as an effective communication tool for fostering engagement and positive interpersonal relationships, although inappropriate use can create negative outcomes. Drawing on positive psychology, this study aims to empirically examine the extent to which frontline employee’s (FLE’s) humour usage can influence customers’ service encounter evaluations. Findings from 252 retail service customers indicate that their sense of humour drives humour perceptions and facilitates positive encounter evaluations. In particular, FLEs’ other-directed humour, rather than self-directed humour, leads to more enjoyable interactions for customers. This effect is moderated by pre-encounter mood, in that customers react more positively to other-directed humour when they are in a bad mood. This study contributes empirical support for the importance of appropriate humour usage to the service encounter literature. From a managerial perspective, the outcomes highlight that service encounters benefit from other-directed humour. JEL Classification: M31

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Rottenberg, Elizabeth. "When Humour Has the Last Word: Freud and the Magnanimous, Playful, Not Cruel, Very Benign Superego." Oxford Literary Review 42, no. 1 (July 2020): 33–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/olr.2020.0292.

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This paper begins with a rather straightforward observation: Freud's last word on the theory of jokes and the comic is his 1927 essay on ‘Humour’. That is, when it comes to jokes and the comic, ‘humour’ has the last word, both textually and chronologically. What this also means, as this paper tries to show, is that the humour of last words is not far behind. Which is not to suggest that Freud's theory of humour is all fun and games. For, if there is one thing that Freud's examples of humour in both Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious and ‘Humour’ make clear, it is that humorous last words must be taken seriously if we are to understand how they comfort and protect the ego in the face of death.

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Yunus Anis, Muhammad. "HUMOR DAN KOMEDI DALAM SEBUAH KILAS BALIK SEJARAH." Jurnal CMES 6, no. 2 (June 14, 2017): 199. http://dx.doi.org/10.20961/cmes.6.2.11714.

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This paper describes the brief history of Humour in Arabs from (1) the earlier preIslamic period, (2) the Islamic period, (3) the medieval Arabic Literature (Abbasid), and (4) Mamaluke, Fatimid, Ayyubid, and Ottoman periods. This paper will try to show that<br />Arabic literature is rife with the unique taste of Arabs in humour and comedy. Finally, the result of data analysis shows that humour in the earlier pre-Islamic period and the Islamic period is used dominantly at satirical poem which is called hija‟. But in the medieval period until Ottoman period, Arabic humour and comedy has been spreading to the modern prose, shuch as romantic novel, elegant style of fable, public theater – shadow play and some of elegiac short stories.

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Zaharim, Mohd Ziyad Afiq Mohd, and Dr Nor Azura Adzharuddin. "The Usage of Humour Elements in Instructional Communication and Their Roles in Students' Achievement." Global Journal of Business and Social Science Review (GJBSSR) Vol. 2(2) 2014 2, no. 2 (April 10, 2014): 44–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.35609/gjbssr.2014.2.2(5).

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Objective- The purpose of this article is to examine the usage of humour elements through the learning process in lectures and how these influence the achievements among university students. Apart from that, this article is tojustifyseveral questions that includes: To examine the humorous elements involved in learning and communication process while attending lectures, to investigate the type of humour and their appropriateness when used for instructional communication, and finally, to examine the relationship between the usage of humour elements and the achievements among higher education students. Methodology/Technique This article is still in the preliminary stage in which the issues discussed are based on previous literature; therefore, this is a conceptual paper based on observations, the preliminary pilot study as well as the analysis of previous findings in relation to the usage of humour in learning environment. The previous literature also covers the insights on the levels, types and level of appropriateness of humour elements that occur during the communication process between students and lecturers in lectures. The analysis also looks into the relationship between elements of humour and the academic achievements among the students. This paper contributes to the understanding about the importance of food allergy awareness among public. Findings - Previous findings indicates that there are positive relationships between humour and 'teaching and learning' environment. However, how far can appropriateness of humour elements contribute to positiveoutcomes are still left unanswered and therefore will be the main focus of this particular study. Type of Paper Review Keywords: Humour, Appropriateness, Effect; Communication process; Instructional.

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Norman, Daniel. "Coleridge's Humour in The Watchman." Romanticism 25, no. 2 (July 2019): 117–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/rom.2019.0413.

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This essay seeks to challenge Coleridge's (and some subsequent critics') retrospective accounts of the glib naivety of The Watchman's humour, by arguing that his jokes reveal a careful and considered approach to the dissemination of his ideas. It identifies several types of humour employed within the work, examining both the articles Coleridge himself contributed, and the manner in which he arranged the contributions of others. Such an examination is only possible in full view of the contemporary periodical context, to which Coleridge is quite clearly responding. By adapting, and at times undermining, the forms of humour popular amongst the readerships of other periodicals, Coleridge's own jokes reveal his pervasive attention to his relationship with his audience. The Watchman consistently wrong-foots its reader with its subtle and provocative wit, and in so doing it displays a conception of the function and purpose of humour that Coleridge would gradually refine in the years to come.

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Bennett, Bruce. "Clive James, Humour and Empire." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 40, no. 3 (September 2005): 37–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021989405056970.

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O’Neill, Patrick. "Translation, Humour, and Literature. Translation and Humour, Volume 1 edited by Delia Chiaro, and: Translation, Humour, and the Media. Translation and Humour, Volume 2 edited by Delia Chiaro." James Joyce Quarterly 50, no. 1-2 (2012): 534–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jjq.2012.0069.

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Miyamoto Akiko. "What Constitutes Being ‘Ozu-esque’-humour? -Cinema and Literature-." Journal of Next-Generation Humanities and Social Sciences ll, no. 10 (March 2014): 89–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.22538/jnghss.2014..10.89.

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Derrin, Daniel. "Self-Referring Deformities: Humour in Early Modern Sermon Literature." Literature and Theology 32, no. 3 (December 10, 2016): 255–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/litthe/frw039.

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Kanninen, Marketta. "Humour in palliative care: a review of the literature." International Journal of Palliative Nursing 4, no. 3 (May 1998): 110–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/ijpn.1998.4.3.9112.

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Bohdanets, Svitlana. "Gastronomic Humor in Medieval European Literature: Topoi and Historiography." Text and Image: Essential Problems in Art History, no. 2 (2019): 34–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/2519-4801.2019.2.02.

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The article looks at topoi in gastronomic images of European medieval humoristic texts and seeks to examine the connection between food and comic discourses. The author shall also highlight how these images were evaluated and interpreted by scholars of a different methodological background. The attention is paid to motives in gastronomic humour and comic plots related to food, which were widely spread in Western culture. Gastronomic humour is displayed through examples that are to be found in such medieval literary genres as farce, fabliau, Schwank etc. The study aims to propose a common food comic code, explain the principles of its implementation in the text and show its typical constituent elements. The essay starts with an examination of anthropological and social factors that might have shaped and symbolically and functionally determined gastronomic humour. It is assumed that mouth has a significant role in the processes of organization of nutrition and laughter on the bodily level. Then the author overviews in detail the literary origins of gastronomic jokes tracing their formation from the antique comedy. The development and establishment of food comedy are shown through examples from medieval urban literature. Attention is also drawn to the context in which the text functions, in other words, the specifics of its implementation in time and space. It is revealed that nutrition often appears as a background for comic plots, and culinary spaces are typical locations in humoristic stories. According to their professional activity comedy characters are also closely related to food. It is noticed that the food itself becomes a subject of conflict in a comic situation. Main characters actions are concentrated around the food, drinks or dishes. Another aspect of gastronomic humour involves a situation where eating resembles defecation. A typical comic tool on its own is the analogy between having a meal and sex. The paper also describes the features of food that often appear in humoristic texts and therefore has a higher level of comic value.

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Ge, Jing. "Social media-based visual humour use in tourism marketing: a semiotic perspective." European Journal of Humour Research 7, no. 3 (November 22, 2019): 6. http://dx.doi.org/10.7592/ejhr2019.7.3.ge.

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Tourism firms using visual social media marketing are struggling with its implementation, specifically in formulating engagement-based visual message strategies. Yet, creating such appealing posts can lead to positive brand and financial outcomes. Humour has been identified as a potent tool for social media communication, given its capability to develop social interactions. Yet, how humour works on social media is not well understood – specifically its visual form. Treating humour as a symbolic resource, this study adopted a compound content analysis-semiotic analysis to identify visual content and its symbolic meaning embedded in destination marketing organization (DMO)’s social media posts. 200 Sina Weibo posts containing humour images initiated by 5 Chinese provincial DMOs were collected. The results show 6 types of humour content and6 types of symbolic meaning – none of which are product-related. This study advances the tourism literature and humour theory, and offers tourism firms a holistic view of how to fully leverage social media-based visual humour to achieve consumer reach and engagement.

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Chefneux, Gabriela. "Humour at work." Language and Dialogue 5, no. 3 (December 17, 2015): 381–407. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ld.5.3.02che.

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The paper starts from the assumption that organisational culture, a type of behaviour considered acceptable by employees (Hofstede and Hofstede 2004), is not pre-extant but is jointly created during the interactions of the people working together. This paper is part of a longer study that has analysed institutional talk in a multinational company based in Romania by looking at different aspects of interaction such as types of questions, modality, mitigation, politeness and frames. The paper tries to identify the uses and functions of humour in the exchanges between the team leader and the team members in this multinational company.

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Pabel, Anja, and Philip L. Pearce. "Humour in supplier-customer interactions: the views of Australian tourism operators." European Journal of Humour Research 7, no. 3 (November 22, 2019): 84. http://dx.doi.org/10.7592/ejhr2019.7.3.pearce1.

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Much of the existing literature on the tourism-humour relationship focuses on the perceptions of tourists. Little research exists on the views of tourism operators. This study aims to gain a better understanding of the perceptions of tourism operators when deliberately including humour into interactions with customers. The research is based on three workshops with tourism industry stakeholders in North Queensland. Three interactive workshops were delivered by the author from May to July 2017 with the purpose of informing tourism industry stakeholder on how to use humour effectively in interactions with customers. Twenty-three (23) participants joined the humour workshops. The findings of this study explore what tourism operators’ perspectives and concerns are when using humour with customers as a strategic tool for customer engagement.

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Couder, Olivier. "Problem solved? Absurdist humour and incongruity-resolution." Journal of Literary Semantics 48, no. 1 (April 26, 2019): 1–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jls-2019-2005.

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Abstract This article explores the role absurdist humour fulfils in the narrative structure of novels as well as its impact on the process of literary interpretation. Tracing the historical and philosophical roots of absurdist humour, the article emphasises the importance of the concept of incongruity. It then critically evaluates current and influential cognitive and linguistic theories of humour, specifically incongruity-resolution theories and their purported suitability for literary analysis. Drawing on schema-theory, the article examines a passage from Douglas Adams’s The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1980; henceforth The Restaurant) and illustrates why literary humour cannot be analysed in the same manner as short, often specifically designed, joke texts as is common practice in most humour research. Subsequently, the traditional classification of absurdist humour as a type of humour where resolution cannot be achieved is also challenged as the analysis reveals how absurdist humour is part and parcel of the narrative structure of The Restaurant and how the incongruity is resolved at the moment of literary interpretation.

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Barr, Rebecca Anne. "Richardsonian Fiction, Women’s Raillery, and Heteropessimist Humour." Eighteenth-Century Fiction 33, no. 4 (June 1, 2021): 531–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/ecf.33.4.531.

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The fiction of Samuel Richardson is not fundamentally humourless. This article analyzes the rich vein of humour found in Pamela in her Exalted Condition (1745) and The History of Sir Charles Grandison (1753–54) to show that Richardson was acutely aware of the interpersonal power of laughter and that he harnessed it for aesthetic and moral ends. Novelistic scenes of spontaneous conversation dramatize the various and often embodied effects of humorous performances. Using theories of gender and humour, I argue that Richardson critiques and modifies Restoration wit by using women’s raillery as the primary vehicle for novelistic humour. Richardsonian fiction thus feminizes the domineering tendencies of masculine wit and the adversarial harms of ridicule, replacing them with chaste female models of “satirical merriment.” Such pleasure does not equate to liberation or even subversion. Through Pamela and Charlotte Grandison, the novels generate a heteropessimist humour in which women’s dynamic wit ultimately promotes their marital subordination to flawed, disappointing men.

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Van Niekerk, J., and B. Van der Westhuizen. "Humor in kinderverhale in die tersiêre en intermediêre fases van taalonderwys." Literator 25, no. 3 (July 31, 2004): 151–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v25i3.268.

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Humour in children’s literature in the tertiary and intermediate phases of language education Humour is essential in the development of an individual and in the development of a healthy society in general, and research on humour is currently regarded as important in a variety of disciplines in the humanities. There are various ways in which an individual may be exposed to humour, and one of these is children’s stories. An instrument or model for studying humour in children’s stories is necessary and very useful: an instrument that takes into account developmental psychology, literary theory and the nature of humour. When these are combined, the nature, scope and effect of humour in children’s stories can be determined. This article explores ways in which such a model can be used at tertiary level in undergraduate and graduate studies, in teacher training and at the intermediate level when facilitating reading as one of the learning aims in language teaching to children from eight to twelve years (roughly Grades 4 to 6). Humour can be an instrument in the hands of authors and of adults as mediator or facilitator to sensitise young readers to humour in stories. As a consequence of this process of sensitising, readers’ reading and life skills are developed and their horizon of experience is broadened.

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Newton, Joshua D., Jimmy Wong, and Fiona Joy Newton. "Listerine – for the bridesmaid who’s never a bride." European Journal of Marketing 50, no. 7/8 (July 11, 2016): 1137–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ejm-06-2015-0321.

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Purpose While the potential benefits of integrating humour into advertisements are widely understood, the reasons why these effects emerge are not. Drawing on literature about the impact of psychological feelings of power, this research aims to examine how power motivation interacts with the presence of disparaging humour in ads to influence ad-related outcomes. Design/methodology/approach Following the measurement (Study 1) or manipulation (Study 2) of power motivation, participants viewed an ad featuring either disparaging humour or one of the following alternatives: no humour (Study 1) or non-disparaging humour (Study 2). Sense of superiority, brand attitude, ad claim recall and the perceived humorousness of the ad were then assessed. Findings Featuring disparaging humour in an ad increased participants’ sense of superiority, but only among those with high power motivation. Among such participants, this heightened sense of superiority increased the perceived humorousness of the disparaging humour (Studies 1 and 2), induced more favourable attitudes towards the brand featured in the ad (Studies 1 and 2) and enhanced ad claim recall (Study 2). These effects did not, however, extend to ads featuring non-disparaging humour (Study 2), indicating that it was the presence of disparaging humour, and not humour per se, that was responsible for these effects. Originality/value These findings break open the “black box” of humour by identifying why consumers perceive disparaging humorous content to be funny, when this effect will occur and what impact this will have on advertising-related outcomes.

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Drakakis, John. "Terry Eagleton, Humour." Notes and Queries 67, no. 1 (January 14, 2020): 150–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjz203.

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Pabel, Anja, and Philip L. Pearce. "Tourism and on-site humour: a perspective article." Tourism Review 75, no. 1 (August 28, 2019): 65–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/tr-07-2019-0287.

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Purpose This paper aims to outline major theoretical concepts relating to the tourism-humour relationship and provide commentary on opportunities for further research in this area. Design/methodology/approach Papers for this perspective research were sourced by conducting a systematic review which critically appraised relevant research on this topic to provide evidence on humour and its current use in tourism settings. Findings Humour has received attention from many academic tribes and disciplines; however, investigations in the context of tourism are only in its early stages. Research limitations/implications The paper is based on a select number of peer-reviewed literature studies on the topic of tourism and humour. Practical implications The paper outlines some of the challenges that tourism operators face regarding authenticity, i.e. when the delivery of scripted humour is performed in such a way that it is considered spontaneous and meaningful. Originality/value The paper provides a brief overview of how humour is currently used in tourism settings and recommends future research opportunities to guide further studies into this topic.

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Pretorius, Jannie, Mariëtte Koen, and Robert Schall. "Using intentional humour in a higher-education classroom: connecting with, and building on Lovorn and Holaway." European Journal of Humour Research 8, no. 2 (July 18, 2020): 146. http://dx.doi.org/10.7592/ejhr2020.8.2.pretorius.

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Positive humour can facilitate learning. From an educational perspective, it is important to examine how, when and why humour elicits a positive feeling in students, which, in its turn, creates an environment conducive to learning. Previous studies in humour research have focused on the generally perceived impact of humour in educational settings. Reflection on this idea gives rise to two questions. Will the use of intentional humour as a pedagogical tool indeed be perceived as such by students? Also, will a lecture containing positive humour affirm the impact of humour reported in academic literature? The researchers therefore decided that a lecture containing intentional humoristic elements would be presented to two groups of students with a view to determining their responses. To accomplish this, a mixed-methods approach was used, one employing a concurrent embedded nested design to explore the role and impact of intentional humour in two higher-education classrooms. A Likert-scale survey exploring six themes was developed regarding the impact of humour, as identified by Lovorn and Holaway (2015). Open spaces were provided to allow participants to expand quantitative responses. While the Mantel-Haenszel chi-square test statistic was used to analyse the quantitative data, content analysis was used to analyse the qualitative data. The theoretical framework for this paper was drawn from the instructional humour process theory (IHPT). Trustworthiness was gauged by applying Lincoln and Guba’s (1985) model of trustworthiness. The findings of the paper are in line with Lovorn and Holaway’s (2015) research, which suggests that when lecturers take advantage of the positive attributes of humour, it has the power to fuel both students’ engagement and their learning.

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Murgatroyd, P. "WIT, HUMOUR AND IRONY INHEROIDES9." Classical Quarterly 64, no. 2 (November 20, 2014): 853–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0009838814000305.

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Heroides9 takes the form of a letter sent by Deianira to Hercules as a reinforcement to the tunic smeared with Nessus' blood which she has already dispatched in the mistaken belief that it will revive the hero's love for her. In this epistle she tries to persuade her husband to give up his latest girlfriend (Iole) by showing him that she loves him, by arousing pity for herself, and by making him feel ashamed of his philandering and see that he thereby disgraces himself. Obviously there is pathos here, particularly as the deaths of Hercules and Deianira loom in the background, but there is also wit, irony, and (especially dark) humour, creating a piquant tonal mixture which has been almost entirely neglected by critics. They have seen the sadness, and some of the irony (which is taken to be purely tragic), but they have not grasped the facetious aspects, whereby our irreverent poet ensures that the piece does not lapse into mawkishness and engages the head as well as the heart.

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Taylor, Phil, and Peter Bain. "‘Subterranean Worksick Blues’: Humour as Subversion in Two Call Centres." Organization Studies 24, no. 9 (November 2003): 1487–509. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0170840603249008.

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This article engages in debates stimulated by previous work published in Organization Studies, and more widely, on the purpose and effects of workers’ humour and joking practices. The authors emphasize the subversive character of humour in the workplace, rejecting perspectives which see humour as inevitably contributing to organizational harmony. Drawing on methodologies, including ethnography, which permitted the authors to penetrate the organizational surface of two call centres, rich evidence of satire and joking practices were uncovered. While long-acknowledged motives were revealed, particularly relief from boredom and routine, workers’ use of humour took novel, call centre specific forms. Overwhelmingly, though, humour contributed to the development of vigorous countercultures in both locations, which conflicted with corporate aims and priorities. However, the particular combinations of managerial culture, attitudes to trade unionism and dissent, and the nature of oppositional groupings helped impart a different character to humour between the two call centres. At Excell, the presence of a group of activists seeking to build workplace trade unionism in circumstances of employer hostility was a crucial contrast. These activists were instrumental in their use of humour, aware that it helped make the union popular and served to weaken managerial authority. This evidence, that subversive satire can be allied to a wider collective union organizing campaign at workplace level, makes a distinctive contribution to the recent literature on organizational humour.

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Canestrari, Carla, and Amadeu Viana. "Dialogical strategies in replies to offensive humour." Language and Dialogue 9, no. 2 (July 12, 2019): 217–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ld.00039.can.

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Abstract The aim of this paper is to determine whether humour can be used as a discursive strategy to reply to offensive humour about natural disasters and what purpose it serves. A corpus of 431 replies to the Charlie Hebdo cartoons concerning the earthquake in central Italy in August 2016 was analysed. Depending on the target of the humour in these replies, they were used to agree, disagree or deflect away from the offensive and aggressive content of the cartoons. The results show that humour can be used as a discursive strategy to respond to offensive humour. Moreover, an analysis of the corpus revealed that humorous replies were used mainly to agree rather than disagree with the cartoons.

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Bocheński, Tomasz. "Black humour in Polish fiction after 1989." Tekstualia 4, no. 39 (September 1, 2014): 31–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0013.4486.

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The article examines the differences between black humour in the work of André Breton and the reinterpretation of this category in contemporary Polish literature. For Breton, the aesthetic of black humour was a blasphemous gesture against the mediocrity of culture and society, against a sentimental approach to life and death. By contrast, recent conteptualizations of black humour are often linked with the carnivalesque and ironic aspects of culture, which are interpreted as a sign of forgetting about the nonsense of existence and death. The literary works by authors like Manuela Gretkowska, Krzysztof Varga and Ignacy Karpowicz only confi rm these observations. The article is also concerned with the writings by Zbigniew Kruszyński, Wiesław Myśliwski and Magdalena Tulli, whose uses of black humour signify resistance against trivialization of eschatological issues.

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Ganguly, Shreyashi. "Laughing About Caste." Connections: A Journal of Language, Media and Culture 1, no. 1 (November 5, 2020): 43–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.29173/connections11.

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The literature on political humour in India has largely evaded the question of how humour intersects with caste stratification. Not much has been written about humour’s potential to discriminate against certain caste groups of the lower social order. Similarly, the traditional media in India has been silent about the issue of caste following which, social media has emerged as the ‘counter publics’ where caste identity can be collectively and freely expressed. Taking the now flourishing brand of English stand-up comedy on the Internet in India as an entry point, this study investigates if the symbolic articulation of caste identities is at all made possible in this genre. Using a combination of discourse analysis and social media analysis, to examine the jokes produced in stand-up shows, this analysis tries to gauge how frequently, and in what ways, caste finds mention in these performances on the Internet. This paper finds that caste identity, and the associated discrimination, are hardly evoked in the comedians’ discourse. And when spoken about, they are often done so in a disparaging light. I conclude this paper by illuminating the ways in which this disparaging humour bolsters caste discrimination, sustains stereotypes and, in the process, conditions the normalized exclusion of lower-caste groupings from the public sphere.

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Takovski, Aleksandar. "From joker to the butt and back." Constructing and Negotiating Identity in Dialogue 5, no. 1 (June 23, 2015): 128–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ld.5.1.07tak.

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Ethnic humour research has mostly conceived and studied ethnic humour as a humour that sets boundaries between jokers and joke targets and that ridicules the targeted ethnicities by assigning them (non) ethnic, universal qualities like stupidity, cunningness or asexuality. By relying on such universal categories this approach has not produced a satisfactory account of how humour can function as a mode of expressing, negotiating and even questioning ethnic identity. This can be accomplished by considering ethnically specific joke texts and focusing on the discourse of the joke target and his response to joking, rather than the joke text itself. To validate the claim, the study will first draws on theories of ethnic and national identity as to establish a workable understanding of ethnic identity constituents to be able to recognize and discuss their emergence in the material selected. It will then examine how and to what success the question of ethnic identity enactment through humour has been dealt by the ethnic humour theory and by some newer studies of the identity humour relation. After which, I will present the research carried out towards testing the hypothesis that is the discourse of the joke target that provides a more comprehensible insight into the question of ethnic identity display through humour. For this purpose, a corpus of little over than two hundred ethnic jokes coming from several Balkan countries was collected and two questionnaires were conducted in the neighbouring countries of Macedonia and Bulgaria.

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Boria, Monica. "Echoes of Counterculture in Stefano Benni's Humour." Romance Studies 23, no. 1 (March 2005): 29–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/026399005x27368.

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Cauchi-Santoro, Roberta. "On Dark Laughter: Leopardi’s and Beckett’s Humour." Quaderni d'italianistica 33, no. 2 (February 9, 2013): 119–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.33137/q.i..v33i2.19420.

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The desire not to desire is crucial to Samuel Beckett and Giacomo Leopardi. Beckett explores this theme in Proust where Leopardi’s poem “A Se Stesso” is thrice quoted. Before citing this poem, Beckett catalogues Leopardi as one of the philosophers who proposed the only impossible solution—the removal of desire—to living. Leopardi expresses the desire of not desiring in his posthumously-collected Manuale di Filosofia Pratica. There is thus a fundamental common terrain in Leopardi’s and Beckett’s existential enquiry. This apparently negative and pessimistic outlook in both authors is a leading thread that has received critical attention. My contention, nonetheless, is that while both Leopardi and Beckett aspire to the ablation of desire, the two authors are neither nihilists nor pessimists. It is through their humour that both Leopardi and Beckett introduce a paradoxical in-between space for desire. The humorous moment conceals repressed desire, albeit it also strives to allow that same characteristic of human fallibility- desire- to be manifested. It is in this dual act that humour in Leopardi and Beckett is inextricably linked to something unsettling, grimacing but also potentially liberating.

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Novaković, Nikola. "The Laughter of Other Places." Libri et liberi 9, no. 2 (December 31, 2020): 313–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.21066/carcl.libri.9.2.4.

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The paper employs Michel Foucault’s ideas on heterotopias, outlined in his essay Of Other Spaces (1984), to analyse the interaction of humour and spaces in Edward Gorey’s works, with special emphasis on the book The Evil Garden (1966). Foucault’s theory of heterotopias is used to provide an understanding of Gorey’s fusion of sombre places and macabre tales with his characteristically dry humour and to examine what Gorey’s heterotopias can tell us about the problem of the categorisation of Gorey as an author of children’s literature. In the reading of The Evil Garden, the paper illustrates how Gorey’s disturbing heterotopias achieve a hybridity of spaces, genres, tones, and reader roles in order to encourage polyvalent readings. Gorey plays with the juxtaposition of various heterotopias, destabilising the reader’s position through recurring motifs and intertextual allusions, but the one element that is represented in all those “other” places is invariably humour in all its different forms. It is precisely at the intersection of the various spaces which collide in heterotopias that Gorey’s dark humour emerges and performs its subversive function.

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Priyantha Gamage, Upul, and Patrick Sadi Makangila. "Conversational Implicature, Humour Theory and the Emergence of Humour: A Pragmatic Analysis of Udurawana’s Stories in Sri Lanka." International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature 8, no. 6 (November 30, 2019): 67. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.ijalel.v.8n.6p.67.

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‘Humour’ in the stories has been investigated in many ways while the prominence of the studies has been captured by the pragmatic analyses. The emergence of humour through language is an interesting conversational implicature that has attracted the academic interest in the recent past. This phenomenon is closely looked at using randomly selected ten stories of Udurawana in this article by applying the Grice’s theory of Conversational Implicature (CI) and the Conventional Theory of Humour in order to examine the ways of generating humour in the context of Grice’s theory by revealing the types of maxims flouted in the selected sample. The study concludes that the maxim mostly flouted in these joke stories is quality and sometimes two or three maxims flouted in a single-story on the surface level but at the deep level quality is the only maxim flouted in all stories under consideration while no evidence found to prove any violation of maxims. The previous conclusions made by the researchers in terms of maxim flouting and violation in the jokes are also not so certain in comparing with the findings of the present study. The study has found out that the humour aspect of almost all the stories under consideration is incongruity while all the stories have associated the particularized conversational implicature to produce the humour aspects. The study has further established that the Udurawana’s humour stories as intended humour stories in which the humour emerges by flouting maxims but not by violating maxims as previous researchers have concluded.

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Dow, Suzanne. "Beckett's Humour, from an Ethics of Finitude to an Ethics of the Real." Paragraph 34, no. 1 (March 2011): 121–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/para.2011.0009.

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This article explores the ethics of Samuel Beckett's humour. It takes issue with the dominant reading of Beckettian humour as the redemption of a negativity occasioned by humanity's finitude. The paradigmatic case in point is here taken to be Simon Critchley's account, wherein ethics is cast as a process of coming to terms with disappointment ensuing from the inaccessibility of the Kantian Thing-in-Itself. This article takes up a Lacanian psychoanalytic perspective to recast Beckett's humour as, far from offering solace for finitude, highlighting instead the excess or remainder that insists, and resists philosophy's attempts to sublate it into a version of the Good. As such, the ethical demand evoked by Beckettian humour is not the attenuation of the disappointing lack implied by finitude, but rather a coping with the egregious excess of inhuman infinitude.

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Dore, M. "Delia Chiaro (ed.): Translation, Humour and Literature, Volume I. Continuum, 2010." Applied Linguistics 33, no. 4 (September 1, 2012): 459–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/applin/ams036.

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Tiberghien, Gilles A. "Humour et dissolution de l'art." Romantisme 21, no. 74 (1991): 15–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.3406/roman.1991.5811.

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Pugliese, Olga Zorzi. "Humour in Il libro del cortegiano." Quaderni d'italianistica 14, no. 1 (April 1, 1993): 135–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.33137/q.i..v14i1.10175.

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