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Women Supporting Women: changing traditional gender perceptions in African women stand-up comedy

Traduction et Langues, 2017
Stand-up comedians do not only aim to get their audience entertained. They also try to trigger audience epistemic and ideological engagement with different humour contents.
Ajayi Ibukun Osuolale
doaj  

An Outline of a Theory of Play

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Play is often dismissed as trivial, yet it is a fundamental and adaptive aspect of human and mammalian life. This paper develops a sociological theory of play, treating it as a total social fact that spans biological, psychological, and social dimensions.
Seth Abrutyn
wiley   +1 more source

“I Hear No Men Talking About It”

RSA Journal
In his 2023 stand-up special, From Bleak to Dark, comedian Marc Maron wonders why men do not address the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which ended the constitutional right to abortion in the United States.
Tuula Kolehmainen
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Identity Entanglement: Rethinking Marginality through the Intersectional, Liminal, and Antithetical

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
While identity research has given sustained attention to marginality, intersectionality, and the effects of power on identity, the formal interactional dynamics through which identities are constituted remain limited. I present identity entanglement as a useful framework for better understanding and articulating the relational complexities of identity.
Jules Vivid
wiley   +1 more source

Interviews with Comedians

This dataset comprises three interview transcripts with comedians and voluntary responses from 11 comedians to a semi-structured, online questionnaire, conducted and collected as part of the practice-led research for the PhD project Disrupting Live Music:
Davies, Ethan
core   +1 more source

Incidental Acquisition of Multiword Expressions Through Repeated Viewing: Sequential Use of L1 and L2 Captions

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Repeated viewing is reportedly a common learning and pedagogical strategy among autonomous second language (L2) learners and language teachers. This experimental study examined the extent to which sequential captioning use facilitates the acquisition of multiword expressions (MWEs) through repeated viewing under incidental learning conditions.
Kenneth W. Y. Li, Yaxin Ni
wiley   +1 more source

WORKING HARD TO BE FUNNY: LEBANESE COMEDIANS’ LABOR, GENDER AND THE PURSUIT OF AUTHENTIC CELEBRITY [PDF]

, 2021
Dr. Blake Atwood Dr. May Farah Dr. Elizabeth Matta SalehThere is a thriving comedic scene in Lebanon where online and standup comedians have used their skills in humor both to entertain and to critique their social, political, and cultural experiences ...
Adra, Maya
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The Hidden Hallyu Emerged: Exploring the Key Motives of Reading Adapted K‐Webtoons of South Korea

Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study aims to investigate why global fans read Korean webtoons (K‐webtoons) and how their motivations vary across different genres. Previous studies have approached the Korean Wave (Hallyu) from a national perspective, emphasizing its influence and primarily discussing K‐pop and K‐drama.
Hoseok Gwak, Ga‐rog Han, Taehyung Kim, Minseok Kim   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

From The Club Stage to the National Scene: How Mass Media Interpreted Two Comedians as Important Immigrant Voices [PDF]

, 2019
This article investigates how comedians with an immigrant background gain political relevance, taking two contemporary comedians from Norway and Sweden as cases. The study uses media's interpretive power as a way to explore Habermas’ ([1996].
Dahl, John Magnus Ragnhildson
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With a Great Story Comes Great Responsibility: Role of Narrative in Leadership Development

New Directions for Student Leadership, Volume 2025, Issue 185, Page 81-87, Spring 2025.
ABSTRACT Comic books reside uniquely within American culture. Historians have contended comics are more than just sequential artwork mixed with engaging stories, but rather, a framework by which the generations make sense of who they are. These stories are a reflection of cultural conscience; a lens through which we can view the world and a mirror ...
Sean Connable
wiley   +1 more source