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Transferring multilingual humour intralingually: the case of “Big Night” [PDF]
The European Journal of Humour Research, 2019 Multilingual films usually tackle significant social and political issues. Sometimes, these films adopt linguistic diversity to create confusion and to trigger humour, accomplishing a comic effect.
Giulia Magazzù
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The European Journal of Humour Research, 2023 Teachers’ humour has a special place in the educational context with multiple benefits for themselves and their students. As a complex concept, humour is strongly related to individual personality, which is also complex and diverse.
Elena Mirela Samfira, Ionel Samfira
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Nordlit: Tidsskrift i litteratur og kultur, 2023 Starting from my former empirical studies but supplemented with fresh fictional “data” from Lars von Trier’s latest TV series Riget Exodus (2022), I first describe how Danes use humour in very characteristic ways, also in cross-cultural professional ...
Lita Lundquist
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The European Journal of Humour Research, 2022 Although research on humorous practices of Anglo-Australians has received much attention, the understanding of those practices by members of various multilingual communities in Australia has not been much studied. In this paper, we look at metapragmatic
Wei-Lin Melody Chang +1 more
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Russian attitudes towards humour and laughter
The European Journal of Humour Research, 2017 Different phenomena related to humour and laughter, such as humour styles, gelotophobia, gelotophilia and katagelasticism, were investigated in a series of psychological studies in Russia.
Alyona Ivanova +2 more
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Russian Journal of Linguistics, 2021 This paper problematises political satire in a time when the COVID-19 virus has provoked numerous deaths worldwide, and had dramatic effects on social behaviour, on a scale unknown in western nations since World War II.
Douglas M. Ponton
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The Use of Idioms and Wordplay in The Big Bang Theory Sitcom
Półrocznik Językoznawczy Tertium, 2020 Language is a powerful communication tool. A skilful person uses words and manipulates them for different purposes; be that for persuading clients in buying different products or joining a congregation; soothing aggravated patients and consoling people ...
Lendita Kryeziu
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Keep the thread up! From humour to poetry. Silence as a spur to read and speak
Ondina - Ondine, 2021 The purpose of this article is to proceed with a semiotic examination of several wordless picturebooks focussed on the use of a thread, Considering that it is the visual image which first and foremost prompts the meaning in iconotexts, we shall deal with
Jean Perrot
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Raised eyebrows as gestural triggers in humour: The case of sarcasm and hyper-understanding
The European Journal of Humour Research, 2014 The growing interest in humour within the field of Cognitive Linguistics during the past few years has led to the conclusion that humour exploits inferences through linguistic imagery and is highly creative.
Sabina Tabacaru, Maarten Lemmens
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Poofy Dresses and Big Guns: A poststructuralist analysis of gendered positioning through talk amongst friends [PDF]
, 2006 This article uses data collected from a class of eight to nine year-olds to show the specific ways children are defining their gendered positions within the context of their same-sex friendship groups.
Willett, Rebekah
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