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Forceful or Funny? Audience Interpretations of Narrative Persuasion in Satirical Entertainment Media

Communication Studies, 2021
It has been established that narrative entertainment messages have the power to produce persuasive outcomes in audiences, but the specific message components that influence audience responses are n...
John M Tchernev, Whitney Walther-Martin
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THE FUNNY SIDE OF DRUG DEALING: RISK, HUMOR, AND NARRATIVE IDENTITY

Criminology, 2017
In this study, we explore the role humor plays in the narrated identities of drug dealers, in their negotiation of the threat of formal punishment, and in their cultural membership and authority. By drawing from interview and observation data gathered from 33 active drug dealers residing in St.
Timothy Dickinson
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Funny enemies: the ‘humorous performative’ in the Stalinist master narrative

Journal of Political Ideologies, 2012
The article introduces the category of ‘humorous performativity’ as a characteristic feature of Stalinist public, judicial and political discourse. Taking the lead from Judith Butler's analysis of discursive performativity, the article suggests ways in which the application of the notion of ‘humorous performativity’ can deepen our understanding of the ...
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Breaking the Narrative Ties that Bind in Shyam Selvadurai’s Funny Boy

English Studies in Canada, 2012
IN THE CULMINATING CHAPTER of Shyam Selvadurai's novel, Funny Boy, are all the necessary ingredients for a possible rescue fantasy: a principal asks a student to read two British poems about the golden days of yesteryear at a school recital. One poem, "The Best School of All," is meant to help the audience reminisce about their own school days and to ...
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Domestic Violence: The Narrative Architectures of Michael Haneke's Funny Games

JNT-Journal of Narrative Theory, 2017
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Funny, Yet Sorrowful: Narratives of Empowerment and Empathy in Woman- Against-Woman Struggles

2013
As in many places around the world, in Malawi stories about marital conflicts and sex scandals provide engaging and entertaining topics of conversation. Despite the universality of the topic, however, these stories are shaped by locally and regionally distinctive concerns, plot structures, imagery, and motifs.
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to This Issue: Comedy and Life Narratives

a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, 2022
Laurie McNeill, John David Zuern
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Displaced and Minor Children in Selected Canadian Literature: An Analysis of Ethnic Minority Child Narratives as "Minor Literatures" in Funny Boy, Lives of the Saints, and Obasan

2004
This study examines the ethnic minority experience and its effects on approaches to childhood in Shyam Selvadurai's Funny Boy, Joy Kogawa's Obasan, and Nino Ricci's Lives of the Saints. The novels' protagonists, Arjie, Naomi, and Vittorio, are marginalized not only geographically, but also in terms of age, language, race, and sexual orientation.
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Effects of Fitness Dance and Funny Running on Anxiety of Female Ph.D. Candidates

Sustainability, 2023
Fengxin Sun, Yongsheng Zhu, Changjun Jia   +2 more
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