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Forms and functions of jokes disseminated during the Covid-19 pandemic in Jordan
The European Journal of Humour Research, 2023 People in Jordan have suffered the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. The Jordanian government took some pre-emptive measures to curb the spread of the virus, including the announcement of indefinite curfew and nationwide strict lockdown.
Ahmad Tawalbeh +3 more
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The European Journal of Humour Research, 2022 The empirical study presented in this article aims to determine some of the linguistic and cultural elements that can influence the production process and the reception of humour and to verify the applicability of the General Theory of Verbal Humor ...
Thuy Hien Le
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Humour in colloquial conversation
The European Journal of Humour Research, 2015 Researchers from the GRIALE group (Irony and Humour Research Group) have developed a theoretical method that can be applied to humorous ironic utterances in different textual genres, depending on the degree of the violation of conversational principles ...
María Belén Alvarado Ortega
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Shifting from meaning to its carrier: A common denominator for three strains of humour
The European Journal of Humour Research, 2018 Incongruity theories maintain that the core of humour is in interplay between meanings. Two incompatible meanings – of situations, verbal utterances or actions – are juxtaposed, one replacing the other or colliding with it.
Ron Aharoni
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The European Journal of Humour Research, 2020 The present study concentrates on the potential of mass culture texts to impose specific metapragmatic stereotypes (Agha 2007) through humour on the wider audience.
Vasia Tsami
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TRANSLATION OF THE EXTRACTS WITH HUMOROUS EFFECT: CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS
RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics, 2018 The article deals with the idea of changing general system how to decompose the extracts with humorous effect when carrying out the contrastive analysis of the original text and its translation.
Evgeniya Sergeevna Abaeva
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Anatomy of social media humour in Ghana
The European Journal of Humour ResearchThis study examines the use of humour on Ghanaian social media through a multimodal lens, focusing on how content creators use different modes such as verbal and multimodal (images, memes, and cartoons) modes to engage the audience. Drawing on Kress and
Andani Kholinar +1 more
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Grasping political cartoons? Not an easy matter
The European Journal of Humour Research, 2018 The article focuses on the interpretation of political cartoons and the means of expression a cartoonist uses to convey a message: visual metaphors, visual metonymies as well as metaphors inferred from the image and/or text.
Dafina Ivanova Genova
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The European Journal of Humour ResearchTranslating humour is comparable to working with poetry: one has to make sacrifices for the sake of equivalence. The task is further complicated when humour is anchored in multiple communication channels, such as the verbal and visual ones.
Kateryna Pilyarchuk
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Gender stereotypes depicted in online sexist jokes
The European Journal of Humour Research, 2019 This research aimed to explore gender stereotypes depicted in online sexist jokes collected from laughfactory.com. Linguistically speaking, jokes as a subtype of humour have become a common phenomenon in our everyday lives.
Anastasia Nelladia Cendra +2 more
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