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Language and Semiotic StudiesNewspaper political cartoons, known for their satirical nature, employ semiotic and linguistic techniques to comment on or criticise political leaders and events humorously.
Osisanwo Ayo, Atoloye Lekan
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Humor during Crisis; an Examination over Humor related to covid-19 disease based on General Theory of Verbal Humor [PDF]
̒Ilm-i Zabān, 2021 Rudaki is one of the poets whose poetry collection has not been found and the The present paper has been written to examine the jokes about the outbreak of Covid-19 which have been circulated in the social media.
Vahid Tavoli +3 more
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Humor and Social Media: A Linguistic Analysis of Some Egyptian Coronavirus Memes [PDF]
Wadī Al-Nīl Lil Dirāsāt wa Al-Buẖūṯ Al-Insāniyyaẗ wa Al-Iğtimāʿiyyaẗ wa Al-Tarbawiyyaẗ, 2021 The paper aims at investigating verbal humor in some selected Egyptian web memes about Corona Virus. It also aims at identifying the different strategies and techniques used by memes' producers to create humor.
Menna Mohammed Salama El-Masry
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The Mote in Thine Eye': An Analysis of the Bible in Cartoon [PDF]
Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, 2021 The targeting of religion in editorial cartoons has become a source of controversy. Particular tensions emerged following the publication of the Danish cartoons, a set of cartoons representing the Prophet Mohammed, published in Jyllands-Posten in ...
Huw Thomas
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Talenta Conference Series: Local Wisdom, Social, and Arts (LWSA), 2021 The purpose of this research is to demonstrate how structural characteristics of conversational humour are related to the functions served by hilarious utterances and acts. Linguistically speaking, examining humour can provide us with a wealth of information about the society in which we live.
null Sisila Fitriany Damanik +1 more
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Dramaturgical Tricks in the Clementine Literature
Lea, 2023 The Clementine novel (written in the 4th century CE and set in the 1st century CE) incorporates a palette of comic features. Using the “Taxonomy of ” and the “Script Theory” developed by Attardo and Raskin within the framework of the General Theory of ...
Sergio Basso
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Towards a comprehensive theory of culturally constructed humour
The European Journal of Humour Research, 2020 In the present research, we discuss Humour Studies within Linguistics, focusing mainly on linguistic theories of humour including the Semantic Script Theory of Humour (SSTH; Raskin 1985), and the General Theory of Verbal Humour (GTVH; Attardo 1994 ...
Sajjad Kianbakht
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The European Journal of Humour Research, 2023 Contemporary texts often require a reader or viewer with vast background knowledge. One of the reasons behind this is intertextuality: every text is reliant, to a certain extent, on previous written, filmed, or painted artifacts.
Kateryna Pilyarchuk
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Indonesian humorous status in social media: An application of script-based semantic theory of humour
Studies in English Language and Education, 2020 This paper aims to analyse Indonesian humorous status in social media by applying the Script Semantic Theory of Humour (SSTH) and the parameters called Knowledge Resources (KRs) of the General Theory of Verbal Humour (GTVH). It is conducted by applying a
Sisila Fitriany Damanik, Mulyadi Mulyadi
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Online Satirical News as Instances of Liquid Racism: Evidence from Greek [PDF]
University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series, 2023 When discussing the relationship between humour and racism, research usually concentrates on ethnic or racist jokes or on other humorous texts which expressly target migrants or other minorities.
Villy Tsakona
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