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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IN ENGLISH STAND-UP COMEDY

English Review: Journal of English Education, 2016
This descriptive qualitative research was about the analysis of figurative language in English stand-up comedy. The purposes of this study were to identify the types of figurative language and to describe the functions of figurative language found in the
Maharani Widya Putri, Erwin Oktoma, Roni Nursyamsu   +2 more
doaj  

Shameful or shameless? Anxieties about mothers and women's autonomy on the Central African Copperbelt, 1956–1964

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article deals with anxiety about and the shaming of modern urban mothers and wives on the mines of the late colonial Central African Copperbelt. Women's various labours and public presence lead to ambivalent depictions, such as the ‘careless mother’, that were part of a broader array of anxieties about women's autonomy on the mines ...
Stephanie Lämmert
wiley   +1 more source

Timing structures in live comedy: A matched-sequence approach to mapping performance dynamics. [PDF]

PNAS Nexus
Pope VC, Stewart R, Chew E.
europepmc   +1 more source

‘Expression is power’: Gender, residual culture and political aspiration at the Cumnock School of Oratory, 1870–1900

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article investigates the ways in which late‐nineteenth‐century students at Northwestern University's Cumnock School of Oratory mobilised elocution training and parlour performance to foster mixed‐gender public discourse. I use student publications to reconstruct parlour meetings in which women and men adapted traditions of conversational ...
Fiona Maxwell
wiley   +1 more source

Can a noisy venue be bad for comedy? [PDF]

PLoS One
Gorenz D, Schwarz N.
europepmc   +1 more source

Scandalisation, gender and space in ancient Rome: The case of Cicero and Clodia

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyses the public attack on Clodia Metelli, a Roman aristocratic woman, by the orator Marcus Tullius Cicero in a trial in 56 BCE. Drawing on modern scandal theory, this article analyses how Cicero uses scandal dynamics to turn Clodia, the witness in the case, into the culprit.
Muriel Moser
wiley   +1 more source

Dataset of transcribed Indonesian stand-up comedy videos with audience laughter annotations from Kompas TV's YouTube channel. [PDF]

Data Brief
Supriyono, Wibawa AP, Suyono, Kurniawan F, Pranolo A, Saubari N, Wang K.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Virility, fascism and regeneration in post‐Civil War Spain: On interpretations of literary Romanticism under the Franco regime

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract In the years immediately following the Spanish Civil War, the political culture of Falangism developed a deeply gendered regenerationist discourse, which proposed that regeneration would only be possible if the nation recovered its virile attributes.
Zira Box
wiley   +1 more source

The Bayes factor to discriminate Molière and Corneille as authors of classical French plays. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Bozza S, Cammarota V, Roten CA, Roten V, Jover A, Taroni F.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Selling soldiering: Marketisation, gender complementarity and the promise of military femininity in 1990s Sweden

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the first large‐scale attempts to recruit women as soldiers and officers in 1990s Sweden, focusing on the techniques and promises employed by the Swedish Armed Forces (SAF). Building on a wide range of documents and audiovisual sources, we demonstrate how the SAF utilised various marketing techniques, including ...
Sanna Strand, Fia Cottrell‐Sundevall
wiley   +1 more source