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Kianbakht, Sajjad. "Towards a comprehensive theory of culturally constructed humour." European Journal of Humour Research 8, no. 2 (2020): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.7592/ejhr2020.8.2.kianbakht.

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In the present research, we discuss Humour Studies within Linguistics, focusing mainly on linguistic theories of humour including the Semantic Script Theory of Humour (SSTH; Raskin 1985), and the General Theory of Verbal Humour (GTVH; Attardo 1994, 2017b). The study demonstrates different types of cultural conceptualisations (Sharifian 2017a, 2017b) that the interlocutors draw upon, such as cultural categories, cultural metaphors, and cultural schemas to create humour, and we argue that the General Theory of Verbal Humour does not account for culturally-constructed verbal humour. Hence, we arg

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Rębkowska, Agata. "Humor w badaniach nad przekładem." Romanica Wratislaviensia 63 (October 11, 2016): 157–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.19195/0557-2665/63.12.

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HUMOUR IN TRANSLATION STUDIES Humour, manifesting itself at different semiotic levels of a text, is considered to be one of the most common translation challenges. However, previous studies dealing with translation of humour mainly consist of various aspects of translating humorous phenomena expressed themselves especially at the linguistic level. The aim of the article is to present the most important linguistic theories of humor structural isotopy, semantic theory of scripts, the general theory of verbal humor, humor seen as a violation of the conversational maxims or as the game with implic

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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 (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.

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Bendi, Merouan. "Hybrid humour as cultural translation: The example of Beur humour." European Journal of Humour Research 7, no. 2 (2019): 87. http://dx.doi.org/10.7592/ejhr2019.7.2.bendi.

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Humour is a phenomenon that is pervasive in the human heritage in all its different ethnic and cultural diversity; however, humorous effects might exceed the mere pleasure or laughter to serve as a strategy of survival. Hybrid humour has an important societal role in breaking psychological barriers between people as well as in denouncing dominant discourses, criticizing realities and promoting resistance. This paper investigates hybrid humour as cultural translation, particularly Beur verbal humour in France. The first section of this paper explores the notion of cultural translation. In the s

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Shchirova, E. S. "THEORIES OF VERBAL HUMOR VS. UNTRANSLATABILITY." Philologos 44, no. 1 (2020): 93–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.24888/2079-2638-2020-44-1-93-98.

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Šeškauskienė, Inesa, Virginija Masiulionytė, and Birutė Ryvitytė. "Humour and the creative powers of language, or when sentiments turn into centiments." Taikomoji kalbotyra, no. 8 (January 16, 2017): 213–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/tk.2016.17512.

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Humour is part of human communication and can serve as an effective means for making contact, finding a way out of an embarrassing situation, or mitigating different political and social tensions. However, not all humans are born capable of generating and processing humour and it remains an open question whether it is possible to learn and develop this ability. Therefore, a sense of humour, but not an *ability of humour, would be a frequent collocation in many languages. Cognitive linguists claim that collocations are not accidental as combinability patterns point to certain conceptualisation

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Aharoni, Ron. "Shifting from meaning to its carrier: A common denominator for three strains of humour." European Journal of Humour Research 6, no. 3 (2018): 13. http://dx.doi.org/10.7592/ejhr2018.6.3.aharoni.

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Incongruity theories maintain that the core of humour is in interplay between meanings. Two incompatible meanings – of situations, verbal utterances or actions – are juxtaposed, one replacing the other or colliding with it. In this paper, I suggest that often the game is not played between two meanings, but between meaning and its carrier. I provide as examples two families of jokes and one general type of humour sharing this mechanism. One of the two families comprises jokes of self-reference, and the other consists of jokes based on deflation of symbols, which means using them in a concrete

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Nemesi, Attila L. "Semantic and Pragmatic Mechanisms of Humour in Animal Jokes." Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica 12, no. 2 (2020): 1–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ausp-2020-0010.

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AbstractThe purpose of this paper is to take a close look at the interplay of semantic and pragmatic components of animal jokes. Rather than insisting on the priority of one particular theoretical tradition and selecting a few illustrative examples, 30 animal jokes – most of them translated into English from Hungarian – are presented to help identify the different mechanisms that make them amusing. Adopting a theory-by-theory approach, it becomes clear that some jokes fit well the explanation of frame or script semantics, while others are best captured by one or another pragmatic framework and

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Forgas, Joseph P., and Diana Matovic. "Mood Effects on Humor Production: Positive Mood Improves the Verbal Ability to Be Funny." Journal of Language and Social Psychology 39, no. 5-6 (2020): 701–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0261927x20917994.

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Can mood influence people’s ability to produce humorous verbal messages? Based on recent theories linking affect to social cognition and information-processing strategies, this experiment predicted and found that positive mood increased people’s ability to generate more creative, humorous, and elaborate verbal contents. Participants viewed positive, neutral, or negative videos, then produced verbal captions to fit four different cartoon images. Their messages were rated for creativity, humor, and elaboration by two trained raters, and the processing latency to produce each message was also rec

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Huang, Xiaorui. "An Analysis of Verbal Humor in 2 Broke Girls from the Perspective of Conversational Implicature." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 10, no. 8 (2020): 969. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1008.16.

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Humor can be seen everywhere in social communication, and it often appears in conversation in the form of verbal humor. In western culture, humor, regarded as a sort of linguistic art, is a window to understand western culture. Thus, humor comprehension has important practical significance for English learners to better understand, master and use English. This study, based on theories of Conversational Implicature, attempts to analyze the production of verbal humor from the perspective of Cooperative Principle, and an abundance of humorous conversations from the sitcom, 2 Broke Girls, are coll

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Oring, Elliott. "Oppositions, overlaps, and ontologies: The general theory of verbal humor revisited." HUMOR 32, no. 2 (2019): 151–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/humor-2018-0066.

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Abstract The General Theory of Verbal Humor (GTVH) has dominated the discussion of humor theory for the last quarter of a century. It generated a great deal of interest in humor studies by scholars both within and outside the discipline of linguistics. Problems are resident in GTVH, however, which have been inherited from its predecessor the Semantic Script Theory of Humor (SSTH). Script Opposition and Script Overlap are not adequately defined, nor are they sufficient for the identification of a joke-carrying text. The resource of the Logical Mechanism posited by GTVH may have complicated rath

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Kostopoulou, Loukia. "Humor and intersemiosis in films: Subtitling Asterix and Obelix." Punctum. International Journal of Semiotics 06, no. 01 (2020): 185–202. http://dx.doi.org/10.18680/hss.2020.0009.

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Humor has long been the subject of research by scholars coming from different disciplines and fields. Raskin (1985) classified humor theories into three main categories: the incongruity theories, the hostility theories, and the release theories. This paper, drawing on the theory of incongruity, aims to investigate the interplay of verbal and nonverbal humor in audiovisual contexts. The research involves examining selected humorous scenes from the French film, Astérix aux Jeux Olympiques (2008), and its subtitled version in Greek. Humor in the Asterix and Obelix films is multifaceted. As in the

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Dubrovskaya, Polina D., and Kristina V. Manerova. "LINGUOCULTUROLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE MECHANISMS OF HUMOR CREATING IN STAND UP (ON EXAMPLE OF RUSSIAN AND GERMAN)." Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, no. 4 (2019): 62–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.22250/2410-7190_2019_5_4_62_74.

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The relatively new comedy genre stand-up comedy is just beginning to attract the attention of researchers from different areas of linguistics. A comparative linguistic and cultural analysis of selected sketches of the Russian and German stand-up comedians is aimed to establish universal and dissimilar typological features of the genre in two linguistic cultures, identify the reception of national culture of laughter in the genre, manifested in the subject of sketches, as well as compare the use of mechanisms for creating and perceiving verbal humor (incongruity theories, hostility theories and

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Usatova, A. S., and L. P. Prokhorova. "Script System and Black Humor in Plays by M. McDonagh." Bulletin of Kemerovo State University 23, no. 1 (2021): 286–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.21603/2078-8975-2021-23-1-286-296.

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The present paper focuses on intertextuality as a means of black humor in plays by Martin McDonagh, a famous British-Irish playwright. Nine of his plays have been translated into different languages and staged in theatres around the world. However, most theories of comic effect cannot explain the phenomenon of his popularity. This prompted the authors to search for the most accurate and least conditioned way to classify intertext as a means of comic effect in general and black humor in particular. As a result, they chose the semantic theory of humor by V. Raskin and the multidisciplinary gener

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Karpenko, Hanna. "Humor as a Part of Interpersonal Communication." Journal of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University 4, no. 1 (2017): 195–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.15330/jpnu.4.1.195-199.

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The article deals with the description and analysis of humor, irony, sarcasm in our life. Different points of view on humor are presented. Theories of the origin of humor (relief, incongruity, superiority) are described. It’s proved that humor is a part of interpersonal communication and it is irreplaceable characteristic and the quality people always seek in other ones. Some features of humor and the categories of irony (verbal, situational and dramatic) are demonstrated. The advantages of using humor by teachers in the classroom are stated. Some episodes from the lives of students in which t

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Taylor, J. M., and V. Raskin. "Towards the Cognitive Informatics of Natural Language." International Journal of Cognitive Informatics and Natural Intelligence 7, no. 3 (2013): 25–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijcini.2013070102.

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This paper deals with a contribution of computational analysis of verbal humor to natural language cognition. After a brief introduction to the growing area of computational humor and of its roots in humor theories, it describes and compares the results of a human-subject and computer experiment. The specific interest is to compare how well the computer, equipped with the resources and methodologies of the Ontological Semantic Technology, a comprehensive meaning access approach to natural language processing, can model several aspects of the cognitive behaviors of humans processing jokes from

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Wibisono, Sony. "TEKNIK DAN STRATEGI PENCIPTAAN HUMOR KOMEDIAN JAWA DALAM “BASIYO-NARTOSABDHO BESANAN”." Widyaparwa 48, no. 1 (2020): 28–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.26499/wdprw.v48i1.509.

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AbstractBasiyo, as a traditional comedian with a Javanese cultural background, greatly influenced the development of comedy in Indonesia. The humorous model of Basiyo and his friends through Dhagelan Matarampresents the monologue technique, which influenced Srimulat's jokes to the trend of single comedians in the contemporary era. The object of this research is one of his works, the auditive comedy "Basiyo -Nartosabdho Besanan" 1983 production. The study was conducted with a descriptive qualitative method using content analysis theory and Berger's verbal humor technique to get a description of

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Murphy, Scott Patrick. "Humor Orgies as Ritual Insult." Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 46, no. 1 (2016): 108–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0891241615605218.

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In-group members can display a sense of solidarity by earning license to direct verbal putdowns toward one another in the presence of others. An explanation of the process by which in-group members can maintain a sense of solidarity through putdowns in everyday life, however, is lacking in the literature. Set in a corner donut shop in southern California, this article describes how a group of old straight white middle-class men direct improvisational putdowns toward each other and explains how this banter maintains a sense of group solidarity for these men. The article puts forth a view of rit

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Tunde, Asiru Hameed, and Shamsuddeen Bello. "A Linguistic and Literary Analyses of Selected Cartoons on the Novel COVID-19 Pandemic in Nigeria." International Journal of Semiotics and Visual Rhetoric 5, no. 1 (2021): 28–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijsvr.2021010103.

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The world is currently facing a global pandemic, named COVID-19, which is seriously wreaking a devastating blow on the world healthcare system. Since the first index case was reported in Lagos, Nigeria, in February, the federal and state governments have put measures in place to curtail the spread of the virus in the country. Some of the measures include the constitution of the presidential task force (PTF), provision of isolation and treatment centres for confirmed cases, and pronouncement of lockdown order by the president and some state governors. Amidst these measures, cartoonists (artists

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Rochmawati, Dyah. "PRAGMATIC AND RHETORICAL STRATEGIES IN THE ENGLISH-WRITTEN JOKES." Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics 7, no. 1 (2017): 149. http://dx.doi.org/10.17509/ijal.v7i1.6868.

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Understanding verbal jokes in English is problematic for English as Foreign Language (EFL) readers since understanding the jokes requires understanding their linguistic, cultural and social elements. Since a joke constitutes a complex and paradoxical phenomenon, it needs multiple approaches of analyses—such as pragmatic and rhetorical analyses—in order to investigate the multiple layers of meanings it carries. Recently there has been a shift in humor studies, emphasizing linguistic humors and involving the field of rhetoric. These studies, however, have mostly addressed the connection between

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Reifman, Alan, Mykaela Ursua-Benitez, Sylvia Niehuis, Emma Willis-Grossmann, and McKinley Thacker. "#Happyanniversary: Gender and age differences in spouses’ and partners’ Twitter greetings." Interpersona: An International Journal on Personal Relationships 14, no. 1 (2020): 54–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.5964/ijpr.v14i1.3799.

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Research and theory suggest that men, on average, are inhibited from expressing vulnerable emotions such as love, whereas women do so more readily. Based on theories of gender socialization and social media uses and gratifications, we conducted a content analysis of gender differences in the domain of wedding and other relationship anniversary greetings delivered on Twitter (N = 414 tweets). We tested for gender as well as age differences in three areas: symbolic (emoji), photographic, and verbal content. As hypothesized, women were more likely to use emojis than were men. Most tweeters who in

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Clarke, John. "Looking and laughing in ancient Rome." Lampas 52, no. 2 (2019): 195–213. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/lam2019.2.007.clar.

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Summary Humor, both verbal and visual, is culture-specific. This essay examines humorous visual representations in their original archaeological and social contexts to understand Roman attitude-formation, or acculturation. Social theories of humor that distinguish between humor meant for individuals within a group (intragroup humor) and humor targeting individuals outside one’s group (intergroup humor) help explain the dynamics of the humor in Roman visual culture. Pompeii offers two examples of intragroup humor: representations in the Tavern of Salvius make fun of the non-elite people who fre

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Badara, Aris. "Stand-up Comedy Humor Discourse in Local Perspective in Indonesia." International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature 7, no. 7 (2018): 222. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.ijalel.v.7n.7p.222.

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Examining stand-up comedy humor discourse in local perspective in Indonesia is fascinating due to its uniqueness and complexity. This kind of discourse has some specific characteristics in terms of its creation and language use. A qualitative study was conducted with the data source from stand-up comedy records staged in 2016 by the stand-up comedy local community in Kendari, Southeast Sulawesi. The data were reduced to obtain the funniest humor discourse. Furthermore, the data were analyzed based on the creation technique and the construction elements of humor discourse in terms of linguistic

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Fitrawati, Fitrawati. "RAPPORT: ESSENTIAL HARMONIOUS FACTOR IN LANGUAGE CLASSROOM." Lingua Didaktika: Jurnal Bahasa dan Pembelajaran Bahasa 4, no. 1 (2010): 27. http://dx.doi.org/10.24036/ld.v4i1.7391.

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This article discusses on how teachers build and establish the harmonious environment between them and their students. This term is called as rapport. The writer has collected some theories from some experts about how to establish rapport in the language classroom. In the line with the experts opinions, it is very important for teachers to maintan the rapport in their classroom. Understanding rapport in more depth, it can be said that it has to do with appreciating where other people are coming from, understanding their point of view and seeking to develop and maintain a connection with them.

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Cendra, Anastasia Nelladia. "BBC Radio Drama Series Cabin Pressure: Abu Dhabi for Giving Listening Exposure to Students: A View from Humour Perspective." Indonesian Journal of EFL and Linguistics 2, no. 2 (2017): 107. http://dx.doi.org/10.21462/ijefll.v2i2.39.

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Using authentic materials to give listening exposure is essential to improve English language learners’ listening skill and using radio is one way to do so. To reduce anxiety in listening, choosing humorous material can be done as humour has been proven beneficial in classroom context, for example, in reducing stress. Using the partial result of a study conducted by the same author and completed by library study about ethics of using humour in the classroom, this study is to investigate whether verbal humour found in BBC Radio Drama Series Cabin Pressure: Abu Dhabi is suitable to be used in cl

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Krikmann, Arvo. "Contemporary Linguistic Theories of Humour." Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore 33 (2006): 27–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.7592/fejf2006.33.kriku.

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REEKMANS, T. "Verbal Humour in Plutarch and Suetonius' Lives." Ancient Society 23 (January 1, 1992): 189–232. http://dx.doi.org/10.2143/as.23.0.2005880.

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REEKMANS, T. "Notes On Verbal Humour in theHistoria Augusta." Ancient Society 28 (January 1, 1997): 175–207. http://dx.doi.org/10.2143/as.28.0.630075.

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van Rooij, Iris, and Mark Blokpoel. "Formalizing Verbal Theories." Social Psychology 51, no. 5 (2020): 285–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335/a000428.

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Abstract. We present a tutorial for formalizing verbal theories of psychological phenomena – social or otherwise. The approach builds on concepts and tools from the mathematics of computation. We use intuitive examples and illustrate the intrinsic dialectical nature of the formalization process by presenting dialogues between two fictive characters, called Verbal and Formal. These characters’ conversations and thought experiments serve to highlight important lessons in theoretical modeling.

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Dore, Margherita. "Intertextuality and failed taboo humour in advertising." European Journal of Humour Research 8, no. 3 (2020): 99. http://dx.doi.org/10.7592/ejhr2020.8.3.dore.

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Humour is often exploited in advertising to enhance the positive image of a brand or corporate company, as well as to promote products or services. Advertisers seek the involvement of the audience via covert or overt references that, in their opinion, may trigger humour and, hypothetically, result in a positive customer response. However, using intertextual humour in advertising can sometimes be risky because, even though the ideal interlocutor is supposed to be familiar with the humorous reference the author alludes to, the latter can never be certain of whether it will be favourably received

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Zekavat, Massih. "Reflexive humor and satire: a critical review." European Journal of Humour Research 7, no. 4 (2020): 125. http://dx.doi.org/10.7592/ejhr2019.7.4.zekavat.

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Because most theories of humour emphasize its intersubjective and/or semantic nature, they fail to fully appreciate and explain self-directed humour. Through a critical exploration of the implications of different theories of humour and satire, this paper argues that the spectrum of reflexive humour and satire can be categorized according to the figure of the satirist and the target of satire, both of whom can feature individual or collective social selves. Depending on the satirist and the scope of satire, the functions of reflexive humour may range from securing psychological homeostasis to

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Vincent-Durroux, Laurence, Kerry Mullan, Caroline David, Christine Béal, and Cécile Poussard. "Mastering second language humour: the ultimate challenge." European Journal of Humour Research 8, no. 4 (2020): 82. http://dx.doi.org/10.7592/ejhr2020.8.4.vincent-durroux2.

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This small-scale study on verbal humour takes place within a larger project entitled “From perception to oral production”, which aims to identify the links between comprehension and production processes and the sources of difficulty for French learners of English. The data consist of three comparable corpora of filmed semi-structured interviews with first (L1) and second (L2) language students: French-French L1; English-English L1; and English L1 with L2. The interviews revolve around the same extract of an American romantic comedy, which the students were asked to describe and comment upon. I

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REEKMANS, Tony. "Notes on Non-Verbal Humour in theHistoria Augusta." Ancient Society 32 (January 1, 2002): 315–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.2143/as.32.0.64.

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Malyuga, E. N., and M. V. Chernysheva. "Verbal means of humour in American economic discourse." Issues of Applied Linguistics, no. 26 (2017): 89–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.25076/vpl.26.08.

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Ajtony, Zsuzsanna. "Verbal Humour in Screen Translation: Officer Crabtree’s Case with the Fronch and Hungarian Longwodge." Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica 12, no. 2 (2020): 25–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ausp-2020-0011.

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AbstractThe present study aims to gain insight into the translation of audiovisual humour displayed in the verbal manifestations of Officer Crabtree, the fictional character in the BBC sitcom ‘Allo ‘Allo! (1982–1992), especially focusing on its Hungarian dubbed version of the series. Being a research domain with insights from audiovisual translation (AVT), humour studies, and discourse analysis, the article introduces the reader to AVT, more particularly, to dubbing, to research carried out in the domain of audiovisual humour, and to humour studies, especially focusing on incongruity and super

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Avdagić, Kemal. "Black humour processing in the light of the conceptual integration theory and the benign violation theory." ExELL 7, no. 1 (2019): 70–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/exell-2020-0007.

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Abstract The aim of the paper is to reveal that humour processing is an exertion which requires both, mental and emotional capacities. To prove the point, two theories for humour processing were employed: the conceptual integration theory and the benign violation theory. The paper shows that theories, though different, possess certain common elements and represent useful tools in humour processing. The conceptual integration theory, with its input spaces, blending processes and generic space, together with the benign violation theory and its detection of humorous elements within tragic situati

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Lowe, N. J. "I Comedy: Definitions, Theories, History." New Surveys in the Classics 37 (2007): 1–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0017383508000430.

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Comedy’, from Greek komoidia, is a word with a complex cultural history. Its modern, as opposed to its ancient, use covers all formally marked varieties of performed humour, whether scripted or improvised, group or solo, in any medium: theatre, film, television, radio, stand-up, and various hybrids and mutations of these. It is also, by extension, applied more loosely to novels and other non-performance texts that share recognizable features of plot, theme, or tone with the classical tradition of comic drama; and used more loosely still as a casual synonym for humour’. As a countable noun, how

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Couder, Olivier. "Problem solved? Absurdist humour and incongruity-resolution." Journal of Literary Semantics 48, no. 1 (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 th

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Ribeiro, Brian. "A distance theory of humour." Think 6, no. 17-18 (2008): 139–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1477175600003080.

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Brian Ribeiro offers a sketch of a new theory of humour, pitched at roughly the same level of detail, and intended to have roughly the same level of inclusiveness, as the other available philosophical ‘theories’ of humour.

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Calmus, Arnaud, and Stéphanie Caillies. "Verbal irony processing: How do contrast and humour correlate?" International Journal of Psychology 49, no. 1 (2013): 46–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ijop.12003.

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Greenberg, Edward. "Humor as a threat-coding mechanism." European Journal of Humour Research 8, no. 1 (2020): 14. http://dx.doi.org/10.7592/ejhr2020.8.1.greenberg.

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The integration of humour’s classical theories such as relief, superiority, and incongruity suggest that the differences and patterns in what we find funny are largely dependent on attaching an “explicably safe” meaning to novel entities. It is argued that humour is a substantial organising influence in human socialisation and personal threat perception. Built on such work as Caleb Warren and A. Peter McGraw’s notion of humour in explicated ambiguity, Tom Veatch’s paradox of humour as a “normal” violation, and V.S. Ramachandran’s False Alarm Theory of humour, an integrational theory is develop

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Dynel, Marta. "Taking cognisance of cognitive linguistic research on humour." Review of Cognitive Linguistics 16, no. 1 (2018): 1–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/rcl.00001.dyn.

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Abstract This article is meant to give a state-of-the-art picture of cognitive linguistic studies on humour. Cognitive linguistics has had an immense impact on the development of humour research and, importantly, humour theory over the past few decades. On the one hand, linguists, philosophers and psychologists working in the field of humour research have put forward proposals to explain the cognitive processes underlying specifically humour production and reception (e.g. the incongruity-resolution framework and its refinements). On the other hand, humour research has drawn on theories and con

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Macfarlane, Jan. "Positive psychology: humour and its role within mental health nursing." British Journal of Mental Health Nursing 10, no. 3 (2021): 1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/bjmh.2021.0012.

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This is the eleventh article in a series that explores the meaning of positive psychology and the importance it has on the wellbeing of the mental health workforce. It focuses on positive psychology interventions that help to develop humour and considers how the uplifting effect of humour can be experienced through contemporary use in the field of mental health nursing. This article will connect theories of humour that link to wellbeing. It introduces the concept of positive psychology and its links with humour. Finally, it follows with the application of humour within the nursing context. The

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Owiti, Beatrice. "Humour in Pakruok Among the Luo of Kenya: Do Current Theories of Humour Effectively Explain Pakruok?" International Journal of Linguistics 5, no. 3 (2013): 28. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/ijl.v5i3.3369.

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Tajuddin, Jaslina Mohd, and Jamaludin Mohaiadin. "Malay Children Verbal Reception towards Contextual Features in Fast Food Advertisements." GATR Global Journal of Business Social Sciences Review 1, no. 2 (2013): 01–08. http://dx.doi.org/10.35609/gjbssr.2013.1.2(1).

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Objective This study examines the relationship between Malay children verbal reception and contextual features in fast food advertisements. Methodology/Technique There are four items have been used to measure verbal reception and 26 items to measure contextual features. Structured questionnaire was developed based on previous literatures and a total of 50 pre-school children participated in this study. Findings The findings disclosed that there is a positive correlation exists between verbal receptions and rewarding, imitation and humour and negative correlation between verbal reception, model

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Rus, Violeta Ioana. "A multimodal analysis of conventional humorous structures on sensitive topics within rural communities in Romania." European Journal of Humour Research 5, no. 1 (2017): 19. http://dx.doi.org/10.7592/ejhr2017.5.1.rus.

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When it comes to humour, performing humorous structures means not only producing amusement, but also implies the ability of perceiving the comical, ludicrous or absurd in human life. In this paper, I consider humour as a way in which people in the rural community express themselves freely, without boundaries or constraints. Therefore, the interest of the present article is to identify and analyse sensitive humorous topics in Romanian rural communities. In conducting the study, the following steps were taken: I videotaped people from the Upper Valley of the river Mureș (selected with sociolingu

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Aharoni, Ron. "Detachment of empathy: a common denominator for two theories of humour." European Journal of Humour Research 8, no. 1 (2020): 55. http://dx.doi.org/10.7592/ejhr2020.8.1.aharoni.

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This is a sequel to a previous paper (Aharoni 2018), in which I suggested that the game of humour is played not between two meanings of the same carrier, but between meaning and its carrier: the two are detached from each other by some means. In the present paper I want to substantiate this thesis by some evidence, the main one being referred to in the title of the paper. It is that two well-known theories of humour, both presently neglected to a large extent, are based on this mechanism. In both the carrier of meaning is not words, but actions. In fact, one of the main messages of the paper i

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Pieczonka, Joanna. "Explaining verbal humour to the audience : the case of Plautine neologisms." Graeco-Latina Brunensia, no. 1 (2020): 159–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/glb2020-1-11.

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Yamalita, Bara, I. Gusti Agung Sri Rwa Jayantini, and I. Komang Sulatra. "VERBAL HUMOUR CREATED BY NON-OBSERVANCE OF COOPERATIVE PRINCIPLE IN MIRANDA." Language Literacy: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Language Teaching 5, no. 1 (2021): 80–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.30743/ll.v5i1.3582.

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Humour is one of essential aspects to communicate with other people comfortably. Most of verbal humours, especially implicit humours generate because people break Grice’s four conversational maxims. Concerning this phenomenon, this research aims to find out types of non-observance of cooperative principle found in verbal humour, which uttered by the characters in British Situational Comedy Miranda. Qualitative method was adapted to analyze the data, which was conducted through identifying, classifying, interpreting the data. Humorous utterances from nine episodes of Miranda were the primary so

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Korostenskienė, Julija, and Miglė Pakrosnytė. "Analysis of Humour in Tv Series Friends and Its Translation Into Lithuanian." Sustainable Multilingualism 11, no. 1 (2017): 155–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/sm-2017-0017.

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Summary The present study examines humour in the tenth season of the TV sitcom Friends and its translation from English into Lithuanian. With humour often believed to be culture-specific, humour translation presents a notorious issue in translation practice, as jocular content in the target language is often criticised for being poor and vague. Grounded in Raskin’s (1985) theory of verbal humour and adopting Schjoldager’s (2008) inventory of translation microstrategies, the article examines the components and mechanisms of humour in the source language and analyses the strategies applied to hu

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