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Guinsler, Natalie Michaele. "Rhetorical Humor Framework: A communicative approach to the study of humor." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1211929903.
Full textDelaney, Chelsey. "Humor-Centered Design: Using Humor as a Rhetorical Approach in Design." Research Showcase @ CMU, 2011. http://repository.cmu.edu/theses/11.
Full textPhillips-Anderson, Michael Andrew. "A theory of rhetorical humor in American political discourse." College Park, Md.: University of Maryland, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/7739.
Full textThesis research directed by: Dept. of Communication. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
Karman, Barbara A. "Women and Humor: A Linguistic and Rhetorical Analysis of Joke Target." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1366049215.
Full textWaters, Leah E. "The Persuasive Power of Ridicule: A Critical Rhetorical Analysis of Gender and Humor in U.S. Sitcoms." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2017. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc984248/.
Full textBush, Lawrence Ray. "More than Words: Rhetorical Devices in American Political Cartoons." Scholar Commons, 2012. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3924.
Full textBentley-Edwards, Melissa Ann. "Laughing in the Shadow: The Role of Humor in Ghost Story Telling." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2006. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2201.
Full textOhali, Avigail. "Le rire des sages : l'humour dans la Mishna et la Tosefta." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017USPCA082.
Full textThanks to their extensive literature, the rabbinic movement which was a marginal minority during the early centuries CE became, by late antiquity, the Jewish mainstream, and the rabbinic practice of Judaism became Jewish orthodoxy. Rabbinic writings do not aim to make one laugh, but we have noticed that academic research into the ancient rabbis’ humor contribute significantly to the understanding of rabbinic writings.Our tools for analyzing the humor in tannitic texts are based on previous studies, modern theories about humor, literary analysis techniques and our own personally developed methodology. The research results about humor in the Talmud Yerushalmi, the Talmud Babli and in Midrash Aggada are echoed in the results of our work.We have found in the Mishna and the Tosefta humor in various forms and functions. A comprehensive study of humorous anecdotes in these two textual corpora lends a new perspective about the rabbis and their writings: it also sheds light on the rabbis’ personalities and the house of study atmosphere, struggles within the rabbinic movement as well as with outside opponents, and the evolution of humor between the Mishna, the Tosefta and the Talmudim. The large majority of the stories found in the Mishna and the Tosefta are not humorous, but this proportion is reversed in certain themes: in polemics within the tannaitic movement we find an equal number of humorous and serious texts, and in polemics with opponents to the tannaitic movement, humorous texts are predominant. The tannaitic humor is complex and diversified, it traces the origins of modern Jewish humor not only to the Talmud but back to the tannaitic period, it helps explain some enigmatic texts, and to better know the tannaitic ideology
Almeida, Maria Cristina Máximo. "Artifícios retóricos como forma de sedução nas crônicas humorísticas de Carlos Eduardo Novaes e de Max Nunes." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2013. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/14272.
Full textThis dissertation aims to answer whether there are specific techniques to cause humor in the chronicle genre. For such purpose, it analyzes, by means of rhetorical principles, the humorous chronicles: A Momolândia , by Max Nunes, and A Idade da Pedra , by Carlos Eduardo Novaes. At first, it draws on rhetorical studies to seek the ways to analyze the chosen samples, the argumentation data, and the elements that assist the persuasion process, including the argumentative operators, the figures, specially the rhetorical ones, and the types of arguments. In order to legitimize the rhetorical-argumentative analysis, it also comes to authors linked to Text Linguistics and Social Psychology. Regarding the presence of humor and its function in the chronicles, this dissertation uses the contribution of the following authors: ALBERTI (2011), BERGSON (2001), MINOIS (2003) who provide reflection on humor and laughter roles in the society starting from humorous techniques. Therefore, by associating argumentative techniques and specific characteristics of the humorous creation, it shows the way authors develop persuasive and convincing speeches. The selected chronicles emphasize the presence of the rhetoric as seduction and, although the authors practice different compositional styles and the chronicles have been written in distinct period, we can verify the predominance of similar rhetorical-humorous techniques, with small variations connected to the developed theme itself. In the analyzed chronicles, there are rhetorical figures of communion and choice, as metaphor and irony, which bring the speaker closer to the audience. The epidictic genre and the dialectical apodictic reasoning, which start from probable and true premises, prevail as well and, therefore, also bring the speaker closer to the audience. The analyzed authors make use of extrinsic evidences, to assure the veracity of the mentioned facts, and operators, especially the ones that present opposite conclusions. Regarding the argumentative constitution, we can verify the presence of incompatibility arguments, ridicule and dissociation. Concerning the intrinsic humor techniques, the incongruity and the transgressive character constitute the analyzed authors compositional tonic and present a relation to Social Psychology data, which is mentioned in the investigation. We conclude that the articulation in and between the parts of speech, inventio, dispositio, elocutio and actio, is the main responsible for the persuasion in different audiences. It is verified yet that the humorous chronicle genre is neither limited to promoting humor as an end in itself, nor it intends just to argue. It has indeed a transgressive character and aspires to raise the reality by means of comedy. The humor and the argumentation fuse into one speech and decimate their limits
Esta dissertação objetiva responder se há técnicas retóricas específicas para provocar o humor no gênero crônica. Com esse intuito, analisa, por meio dos princípios da retórica, as crônicas humorísticas: A Momolândia , de Max Nunes, e a A Idade da Pedra , de Carlos Eduardo Novaes. Num primeiro momento, vale-se dos estudos retóricos para buscar os meios de analisar a amostragem escolhida, os dados sobre a argumentação e os elementos que auxiliam o processo persuasivo, entre eles, os operadores argumentativos, as figuras, em especial as retóricas, e os tipos de argumentos. Para legitimar a análise retórico-argumentativa, recorre-se também a autores ligados à Linguística Textual e Psicologia Social. Quanto à presença do humor e sua função nas crônicas, busca-se a contribuição dos autores ALBERTI (2011), BERGSON (2001), MINOIS (2003) que proporcionam uma reflexão do papel do humor e do riso na sociedade a partir de técnicas humorísticas. Desse modo, pela associação de técnicas argumentativas e especificidades da criação humorística, aponta-se o modo como os autores desenvolveram discursos persuasivos e convincentes. As crônicas selecionadas evidenciam a presença da retórica da sedução e, embora os autores pratiquem estilos composionais díspares e as crônicas tenham sido escritas em épocas distintas, verifica-se a predominância de técnicas retórico-humorísticas semelhantes, com pequenas variações ligadas ao próprio tema desenvolvido. Há, nas crônicas analisadas, ocorrência de figuras retóricas de comunhão e escolha, como a metáfora e a ironia, que aproximam orador e auditório. Observa-se a predominância do gênero epidítico e dos raciocínios dialéticos e apodíticos, que partem de premissas prováveis ou verdadeiras e, nesse sentido, também aproximam o orador do auditório. Os autores analisados valem-se de provas extrínsecas, usadas para assegurar a veracidade dos fatos abordados, e de operadores, principalmente os que apontam conclusões contrárias. Quanto à constituição argumentativa, verifica-se a presença de argumentos de incompatibilidade, de ridículo e de dissociação. No que tange às técnicas próprias do humor, a incongruência e o caráter transgressor constituem a tônica composicional dos autores analisados e evidenciam uma relação com dados pertencentes à Psicologia Social, à qual se faz referência na investigação. Conclui-se que a articulação intra e entre as partes do discurso, inventio, dispositio, elocutio e actio, é a principal responsável na persuasão dos diferentes auditórios. Constata-se, ainda, que o gênero crônica humorística não se limita a fazer humor com fim em si mesmo, nem tem o propósito de apenas argumentar. Ele tem, sim, um caráter transgressor e busca denunciar a realidade por meio da comicidade. O humor e argumentação se fundem em um único discurso e dizimam seus limites
Wilson, Nathan Andrew. "Was that supposed to be funny? : a rhetorical analysis of politics, problems and contradictions in contemporary stand-up comedy." Diss., University of Iowa, 2008. http://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/33.
Full textMondragón, Rondón César Junior. "Análisis del lenguaje visual empleado en los memes políticos durante la crisis política de 2019 en Perú." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/653058.
Full textThe specific objective of this research is to analyze the visual language used in political memes during the 2019 political crisis in Peru. The hypothesis is that the visual language used in these memes is based on denotative and connotative perceptive characteristics that facilitate their understanding accompanied by a uniform visual tour. Firstly, a content analysis of the visual tour and the rhetorical elements was carried out based on the syntactic and semantic figures of seven political memes, previously filtered in a documentary file, in which the main characteristics that a meme in this field must have were stipulated, such as being directed at a political power, presenting criticism or support and having a humorous content. An interview was also held with a key informant, who has knowledge of visual rhetoric and experience in generating pieces of humor in which he gives his opinion on political memes. Among the main results, it is obtained that all political memes have accentuated rhetorical figures and typographical figures to be understood and that they use the substitute figures to combine fictional characters with politicians. Thus, it can be stated that memes have characteristics based on visual syntactic (denotation) and semantic (connotation) rhetorical figures. Finally, it can be stated that there is a uniform visual path which is carried out in a vertical manner allowing for easy reading.
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Weaver, Simon John. "Humour, rhetoric and racism : a sociological critique of racist humour." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/51e45dac-cd8d-448f-840a-506d4d9f9953.
Full textGerber, Evie J. "Structured Writing and Humor: The use of Humor as a Component in Structure Writing and its Effect on Health Symptoms and Perceived Stress." W&M ScholarWorks, 2004. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626467.
Full textLucas, Mônica Isabel. "Humor e agudeza nos Quartetos de Cordas op. 33 de Joseph Haydn." [s.n.], 2005. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/285006.
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Resumo: Esta investigação propõe o estudo do contexto teórico que envolve a produção do compositor Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), concentrando-se nas idéias de humor e agudeza [Witz], que têm sido freqüentemente relacionadas à produção deste compositor, desde sua própria época. Para isto, selecionamos críticas de jornais e revistas do século XVIII que discorrem sobre esses aspectos da produção haydniana. No sentido de possibilitar a melhor compreensão do sentido setecentista desses termos, é necessário tratar também de outros conceitos relacionados a eles: a idéia de cômico e as visões setecentistas sobre o riso. Estas informações estão contidas em obras teóricas sobre as artes do século XVIII, como a enciclopédia sobre as artes de Sulzer (1771-74) e a estética musical de Schubart (1784). A recuperação destas noções é utilizada para obter uma melhor compreensão das críticas escritas a Haydn em sua própria época. Elas apresentam visões negativas ou positivas de Haydn, e, com os fundamentos teóricos, é possível atribuir seus conteúdos a premissas conservadoras, de orientação retórica, ou que seguiam as tendências da disciplina então recém surgida, a estética. Assim, as críticas a Haydn permitem criar subsídios para estudar o humor e a agudeza em obras que indubitavelmente representam o estilo maduro destes compositor: os quartetos de cordas op. 33 (1781)
Abstract: This investigation proposes a study of the theoretical context that involves the works of Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), concentrating in the ideas of humor and wit [Witz]. This ideas have been related to the music of Haydn since his own time. Therefore, we selected some eighteenth century journal and magazine critics that involves these aspects of his production. In order to have a better comprehension of the eighteenth century meaning of these concepts, it is necessary to handle also other related notions: the idea of comic and the Eighteenth-Century visions about laughter, contained in works like the arts encyclopedia by Sulzer (1771-74) and the music aesthetic by Schubart (1784). These notions enables us to have a better comprehension of the eighteenth century critics involving the music of Haydn. They contain negative or positive visions about his music, and it is possible to attribute this visions to conservative, rhetorically oriented, or to aesthetic (then a recently created discipline) premises. These critics allow us to create subsidies to observe how humor and wit occur in works that undoubtedly represent Haydn¿s mature style: the string quartets op. 33 (1781)
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Sobiech, Michael James. "A Mock Rhetoric: The Use of Satire in First-Year Composition." TopSCHOLAR®, 2008. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/45.
Full textAkl, Amira. "Multimodal Expressions of Young Arab Muslim American Women." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1404692026.
Full textStaaf, Johanna. "Gringo - en språklig förnyare men hur? : En genre- och stilanalys av ett nytt samhällsmagasin över kulturgränser." Thesis, Södertörn University College, School of Discourse Studies, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-406.
Full textJenkins, David M. "Was It Something They Said? Stand-up Comedy and Progressive Social Change." Scholar Commons, 2015. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5710.
Full textMeier, Matthew R. "Laughing at American Democracy: Citizenship and the Rhetoric of Stand-Up Satire." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1404219407.
Full textBanting, Blayne Alexander. "Proclaiming the Messiah's mirth, a rhetorico-contextual model for the interpretation and proclamation of humour in selected gospel sayings." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/mq27576.pdf.
Full textAfflerbach, Kevin Andrew. "Humorous Developments: Ridicule, Recognition, and the Development of Agency." UNF Digital Commons, 2015. https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/etd/602.
Full textDardompré, Carey. "La lodyans, un romanesque haïtien perspectives historique, poétique and didactique. Perspectives historique, poétique and didactique." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018USPCA027.
Full textThis study will seek to explore lodyans (in Creole) or « l’audience » (in French) as a Haitian literary genre. Lodyans can be described as the art of telling stories. Hughes St. Fort in his review of Haitian Laughter written by Georges Anglade (2006), cites the writer who describes it as follows: ‘‘The lodyans is a uniquely Haitian literary genre whose roots are found in the deepest soil of Haitian culture, at the same level as Haitian Creole language and Haitian vodou. The person who tells the lodyans or stories is known as a lodyanseur’’. From the 1905 to present, many Haitian writers have been used loydyans as a background for their literary works. Among them we cite the following: Justin Lhérisson, Fernand Hibbert, Maurice Sixto, and Gary Victor. This group also includes Georges Anglade, the first to write a theory of the genre; René Depestre, Frankétienne and Dany Laferrière who are not lodyanseurs, but are very influenced by the writing style of those known as such. Based on the works of these lodyanseurs, and the critique of Mikhail Bakhtin, we wish to prove that lodyans is a classical genre even when it borders on the grotesque
Carini, Michele. "Strategie testuali dell'umorismo nelle Confessioni d'un Italiano : Studio di forme e contenuti." Thesis, Paris 3, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA030122.
Full textThis research articulates three main axes: a philological and semantic reading of Ippolito Nievo’s work, which is strictly associated with the study of the critical bibliography; the reasoned hypothesis of the fundamental existence of the humourous principle in the novel’s own structure and the systematic study of its theoretical problematisation; and, the location and methodical use of the most appropriate analytical instruments for an analysis of the novel based on these choices. Theoretical thought about the very notion of humor began during the first thirty years of the 20th century with Freud, Bergson and Pirandello’s renowned studies. What’s more, Francesco Orlando and Tzvetan Todorov’s arguments linked the Freudian perspective to structural linguistics as well as to Chaïm Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca’s neo-rhetorics. Thus, the analysis of the first chapter of Confessioni establishes an argumentative function of the notion of humor’s formal and fundamental phenomena. It also clearly reveals the strategic relevance of this fundamental section of the novel through the presence of a sort of koinè that becomes evidently manifest during the first chapter, but it also appears throughout the entire work
Wistedt, Fredrika. "Skrattet i sprickorna : En retorisk studie av hur enthymem skapas i doxa." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Retorik, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-33705.
Full textJendari, Aziz. "Ironie et poésie. Théorie et pratique de l'écriture oblique dans l'oeuvre de Francis Ponge." Phd thesis, Ecole normale supérieure de lyon - ENS LYON, 2011. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00701171.
Full textAufray, Antoine. "Weil da so « jakommen Sie mal morgen » : étude discursive et syntaxique du discours rapporté en allemand oral contemporain." Thesis, Paris 4, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA040128.
Full textThis study based on two corpora of oral communication (interviews and stand up comedy shows) investigates the functions and forms of reported speech in spoken German. We first present the classical and modern conceptualizations of reported speech as found in grammars of the German language, linguistic typology and in the more recent theories of J. Authier-Revuz, L. Rosier, and linguists of the interactional sociolinguistics and conversation analysis orientation (D. Vincent, S. Günthner, D. Tannen), all of which can be seen as inspired in some way by the views of Bakhtin/Vološinov. Following their footsteps, we argue that reported speech can be seen as a discourse strategy that explicitly stages polyphony and the layering of voices within discourse and therefore must be investigated with respect to its rhetorical effects. Adopting the perspective of the functional theories of syntax, we see oral discourse as a process whose product can be divided in moves (M) and discourse acts, expressed by propositions as predication units within the move. The study of reported speech must therefore be analyzed on two different levels: at the discourse level we seek to evaluate the rhetorical and pragmatic effects achieved by the use of (mostly direct) reported speech in the two corpora. Then we describe the role played by reported speech in the predication at the inter- and intrapropositional level within the move. As the discourse analysis shows, reported speech in informal oral communication can be a highly figurative device. This aspect of the use of reported speech accounts in part for specific syntactic constructions that have not always been taken into account in the grammars of standard German
Wood, Katelyn Hale. "Give it to your damn selves: exploring black feminist humor and thought." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2009-05-94.
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"Surface Conflict - Underlying Compatibility: Reconciling Conflicting Theories of Language." Doctoral diss., 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.9469.
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Faina, Joseph Michael. "New media is a joke : tracing irony, satire, and remediation in online discourse." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/28352.
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McKenzie, John Marshall II. "Televised political satire: the new media of political humor and implications for presidential elections." 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1200.
Full textWang, Ciou-ting, and 王秋婷. "The Rhetoric of Humor in the Political Variety Show : A Case Study of "The Largest Party of People"." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/50117444828841897919.
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This paper focus on two levels of Television Rhetorical Criticism, one is “Rhetorical Format”, another is “Rhetorical Vision”. For example of “The largest party of people”, the framework and the research methods are The Rhetoric of Humor by Karyn Rybacki and Donald Rybacki and generic criticism of rhetorical criticism. To generalize four volumes of “Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA)”, I analyzed the frequency of the punch line of 7 humor skills in “The largest party of people”: parody, wordplay, invective, irony, satire, sarcasm, wit. Further to realized what the rhetorical format and rhetorical vision are and the meanings of the presentation of rhetorical properties. The result of “The largest party of people”, “Irony” is used most often. It’s the humor basic pattern of setup and punch line to transfer from the anger and grumble. By poking fun at a practice or belief. The satire can function as a conservator of culture, defending it against people and institutions that threaten its existence. In addition, I also discovered that, at the beginning of three volumes, the topic of the show is criticizing the procedures of ECFA by Ma’s Administration. After the debate between Ma Ying-jeou and Tsai Ing-wen, the topics of the show was changed to the abilities of policy implementation of Ma’s Administration. It’s shows two issues. One is that it’s difficult to appear the political neutrality of producer. Another is that the producer will follow the program rating of audience in Taiwan to change their contents. It seems that the criticism presentation of the program, however, it only copy the original social ideology and follow the point of the most audience.
Terrell-Curtis, Kara Beth. "Representative form and the visual ideograph : the Obama "Hope" poster." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/3884.
Full textIn 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.