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Differences in use and function of verbal irony between real and fictional discourse: (mis)interpretation and irony blindness [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This paper presents a contrastive approach to the presence of two distinct types of verbal irony in real (natural, unscripted) versus fictional (scripted) discourse, with a special focus on irony blindness, i.e.
Kapogianni, Eleni
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Research on the Role of Humor in Well-Being and Health

open access: yesEurope's Journal of Psychology, 2014
In this interview, Dr. Arnie Cann discusses his research and views on the ubiquitous role of humor in psychological health and well-being. The interview begins with Professor Cann recounting how he originally became interested in studying humor.
Arnie Cann, Nicholas A. Kuiper
doaj   +1 more source

10. Putting the ‘Fun’ Back in ‘Funeral’ [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius writes in his notebooks: “You are a little soul carrying a corpse,” quoting the Greek stoic philosopher Epictetus.
Brommage, Thomas
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MAPPING OF HUMOR DISCOURSE IN SOCIAL MEDIA WITH ORIENTATION OF CHARACTER EDUCATION

open access: yesPaedagoria, 2020
Abstrak: Artikel ini bertujuan memetakan wacana humor di media sosial facebook yang berorientasi pendidikan karakter. Pendekatan penelitian ini adalah deskriptif kualitatif. Datanya berupa wacana humor berkarakter di media sosial.
Hari Kusmanto   +2 more
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Political Implications of Humor [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This paper discusses some political implications of humor, using as a point of departure the mechanisms that explain the sources of the comical. First, I briefly present the main explanations offered for why we laugh.
Panaet, Dan
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Finding Light in the Darkness: The Role of Humor [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The human story of confrontations with darkness can be lightened with the aid of humor and ...
Ansello, Edward F.
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Sense of Humor, Stable Affect, and Psychological Well-Being

open access: yesEurope's Journal of Psychology, 2014
A good sense of humor has been implicated as a quality that could contribute to psychological well-being. The mechanisms through which sense of humor might operate include helping to reappraise threats, serving as a character strength, or facilitating ...
Arnie Cann, Chantal Collette
doaj   +1 more source

A Crowd-Annotated Spanish Corpus for Humor Analysis

open access: yes, 2018
Computational Humor involves several tasks, such as humor recognition, humor generation, and humor scoring, for which it is useful to have human-curated data.
Castro, Santiago   +4 more
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Preface to Computational Humor 2012 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Like its predecessors in 1996 (University of Twente, the Netherlands) and 2002 (ITC-irst, Trento, Italy), this Third International Workshop on Computational Humor (IWCH 2012) focusses on the possibility to find algorithms that allow understanding and ...
Nijholt, Anton
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THE USES OF HUMOR IN SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE: ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL WORKERS’ EXPERIENCE

open access: yesSocialinis Darbas: Patirtis ir Metodai, 2016
The article discusses how humor could enrich social work practice and guideline social workers. Social work field is not that traditionally relates with humor. While social work scholars argue that social work field is full of contradictions and humor
Gabrielė Vaitulionytė   +1 more
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