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LANGUAGE STYLE OF HUMOR ON STAND-UP COMEDY VIDEO

Journal of Applied Linguistics and Literature, 2019
This research explained about language styles which used in stand-up comedy script brought by Chris Rock. Chris Rock owns famous joke material that is affected by the black comedy pioneers like Richard Pryor and Redd.
Merry Rullyanti, Nurdianto Nurdianto
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An Approach to the Quotations of Hellenistic Comedy in Athenaeus

Aitia
Athenaeus of Naucratis is, due to the number of quotations offered in The Deipnosophistai, the main source of what we know of Hellenistic Comedy.
Jordi Pérez Asensio
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Grotesque realism in "Revizor" by N.V. Gogol

Известия Южного федерального университета: Филологические науки, 2016
The article is dedicated to the famous comedy «Revizor» by the great Russian writer N.V. Gogol. In the comedy the writer creates a carnival atmosphere in which people feel more freedom and more relaxed.
Zolotarev Igor Leonardovich
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Existentialism and Monty Python: Kafka, Camus, Nietzsche, and Sartre [PDF]

, 2006
This essay utilizes the work of the comedy group, Monty Python, as a means of introducing basic concepts in Existentialism, especially as it pertains to the writings of Nietzsche, Sartre, and ...
Slowik, Edward
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A Comedy of Errors or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Sensibility‐Invariantism about ‘Funny’ [PDF]

, 2012
In this article, I argue that sensibility‐invariantism about ‘funny’ is defensible, not just as a descriptive hypothesis, but, as a normative position as well.
Doerfler, Ryan
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Contrasting roles of school and public libraries in lower primary pupils' reading

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Libraries represent an important institutional component of children's reading socialisation, yet their role is often treated as uniform despite substantial differences between school and public libraries. This study examines how visits to school and public libraries relate to pupils' reading attitudes, practices and self‐assessed reading ...
Kateřina Balcarová, Jiří Balcar
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Seriously Funny [PDF]

, 2011
Programme note for Pitlochry Festival Theatre's production of Arthur Wing Pinero's Victorian comedy "The Trelawny of the Wells" (performed in 2011 as part of Pitlochry's 60th Anniversary Season)
Heinrich, A.
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‘School is their whole world’: Teachers' perspectives on loneliness among children and adolescents from England and mainland China

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract As front‐line observers and active participants in pupils' daily lives, teachers closely monitor pupils' social interactions, emotional states and behavioural changes. Their unique perspective enables them to detect problems in the social lives of their pupils that may not be immediately visible to peers, parents or mental health professionals.
Yixuan Zheng, Charlotte Bagnall, Caroline Bond, Elizabeth Birchinall, Pamela Qualter   +4 more
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Cringe Overhang: The Perlocutionary Effects of Cringe Comedy

European Journal of Analytic Philosophy
Cringe comedy can make people so uncomfortable, the cringe continues even after the comedy has stopped. This paper explains this effect, which I call “cringe overhang”. If audiences weakly connect to the characters, they laugh.
Alexander Sparrow
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Teaching the Divine Comedy's Understanding of Philosophy [PDF]

, 2012
This essay discusses five main topoi in the Divine Comedy through which teachers might encourage students to explore the question of the Divine Comedy’s treatment of philosophy. These topoi are: (1) The Divine Comedy’s representations in Inferno of noble
Aleksander, Jason
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