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Asymmetry in script opposition

open access: yes, 2010
This article examines the relationship between targets and script distribution in humour, starting from some basic notions of GTVH. Script asymmetry, considered here as a property of Script Opposition, is defined in terms of a perceptual difference ...
Amadeu Viana
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Metaphor, humour and characterisation in the TV comedy programme Friends

open access: yes, 2015
The recent surge of interest in the application of Cognitive Linguistics (CL) theories to humour research has produced a fair amount of literature (Giora 1991, 2001; Coulson 2001, 2003; Brò‚ne and Feyaerts 2004; Kyratzis 2003 just to name a few).
dore margherita
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Challenges and strategies of subtitling humour : a case study of the American sitcom Seinfeld, with particular reference to English and Arabic [PDF]

open access: yes
The present study investigates issues in the subtitling of humour in the American sitcom, Seinfeld. The study also identifies the subtitling strategies used by Arab translators to solve the technical, linguistic and cultural problems of translating ...
Alharthi, AAA
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Script oppositions and humorous targets: promoting values and constructing identities via humor in Greek conversational data

open access: yes, 2006
Recent pragmatic research focuses on the issue of identity construction via humor. In this paper, we intend to investigate how could the General Theory of Verbal Humor (in Attardo 2001, henceforth GTVH) contribute to the analysis of humor as a means of ...
Archakis, A.   +3 more
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Humor across languages: A pragmatic comparison of flouting Maxim in Trevor Noah's Comedy and Its YouTube auto-translation [PDF]

open access: yes
ENGLISH In an era where global audiences increasingly rely on automated subtitles to access content across languages, humor remains one of the most challenging elements to translate due to its reliance on cultural nuance, linguistic play, and ...
Habibah, Alfy Rifngatul
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The influence of changes in tumor hypoxia on dose-painting treatment plans based on 18F-FMISO positron emission tomography. [PDF]

open access: yesInt J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys, 2008
Lin Z   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The narrative joke: Conceptual structure and linguistic manifestation

open access: yes, 2007
The research tackles the issue generally overlooked by scholars in humor research: how jokes are created by a joke-teller. Based on major findings in the leading trend in humor research—Semantic Script-based Theory of Humor and General Theory of Humor ...
Petrenko, Maxim
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