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Can’t Take a Joke? The Asymmetrical Nature of the Politicized Sense of Humor [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
In an effort to tease out possible expressions of dispositional differences in people of different political ideologies, this study uses media preference and consumption data from the 2008 National Annenberg Election Survey (NAES08-Online) to examine ...
Gans, Roger
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The Birth of Tragedy in the Cinquecento: Humanism and Literary History [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Humanist literary historians treated Aristotle’s ‘Poetics’ in a distinctive way: as a historical source. How had the Greek tragedy arisen, what was its relation to the comedy, and how was it performed?
Haugen, Kristine Louise
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“Train and Hope”: The Role of Restorative Justice Coordinators in Sustaining a Culture of Care in Schools

open access: yesConflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the role of restorative justice coordinators in supporting teachers and schools in adopting a whole‐school approach to restorative justice in education. Coordinators are often tasked with implementing a train‐and‐hope model, in which they receive initial training in restorative justice but are largely left unsupported ...
Crystena Parker‐Shandal   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Meaning of Slang Language in 22 Jump Street Movie [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This research focused on the meaning of slang language used by the characters in 22Jump Street Movie. The research was conducted by using qualitative method. Thedata were collected from the movie script.
Pulungan, E. J. (Eren)
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Tick‐Tock, the Time Has Come: Leveraging TikTok to Understand, Prevent, and Treat Eating Disorders

open access: yesInternational Journal of Eating Disorders, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective TikTok—a highly engaging social media platform with a powerful algorithm that displays short videos—has become massively popular in recent years. As research highlights the concerning relationship between image‐based content on social media and disordered eating symptoms, TikTok may serve as an optimal platform to understand eating ...
Macarena Kruger   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Life’s Too Short to be polite: Exploiting impoliteness and rudeness in Gervais And Merchant’s humour about physical difference

open access: yesAltre Modernità, 2019
What follows is a qualitative analysis of the use of impoliteness for comic effect in the British comedy series Life’s Too Short written by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant. Because each episode centres on Warwick Davis, an actor with restricted growth,
Dermot Heaney
doaj   +1 more source

Introduction: Tricksters, humour and activism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This special issue, entitled ‘The Trickster Activist in Global Humour and Comedy’, investigates the relevance of the concept of the trickster for explaining activist expressions that emanate from comedians, or that appear in comedy and humour more ...
Bassil-Morozow H   +9 more
core   +1 more source

TikTok and Eating Disorders: A Narrative Review

open access: yesInternational Journal of Eating Disorders, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective TikTok has rapidly become one of the world's most influential social media platforms, distinguished by its algorithmically personalized video feed. Its design prioritizes continuous, engagement‐optimized content delivery, raising questions about how such environments may shape eating disorder risk, symptom maintenance, and recovery ...
Scott Griffiths   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Political In Between: Streaming Stand-Up Comedy and Feminist Reckoning in Contemporary Mainland China

open access: yesGlobal Storytelling
China’s strict censorship not only depoliticizes stand-up comedy but creates obstacles for feminist activities. With an experimental approach that compares comedy shows online and offline, this paper asks in which ways comedy and feminism can gesture the
Shaoyu Tang
doaj   +2 more sources

La comedia urbana de corte celestinesco: Corpus, cronología, contextualización ritual, estructura y motivos recurrentes

open access: yesCriticón, 2016
This paper scrutinises a group of plays crucial to a better understanding of the itinerary that leads to our classical theatre: that of the urban comedy of Celestinesque type, also known by the critics as naharresca comedy or Romantic comedy.
Laura Puerto Moro
doaj   +1 more source

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