Nordlit, 2023 Starting from my former empirical studies but supplemented with fresh fictional “data” from Lars von Trier’s latest TV series Riget Exodus (2022), I first describe how Danes use humour in very characteristic ways, also in cross-cultural professional settings.
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The 'Humour' element in engineering lectures across cultures:An approach to pragmatic annotation [PDF]
, 2016 Humour is one of the most difficult pragmatic devices for lecturers and students to engage with, and for researchers to identify systematically. Humour does not always travel well across cultures.
Alsop, Sian
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New European tricksters: Polish jokes in the context of European Union labour migration [PDF]
, 2016 In the context of contemporary European labour migration, where the most publicised pattern of labour migration sees Eastern European migrants move West, the dominant scholarly interpretation of Polish jokes is not applicable for the analysis of much of ...
Ozieranski, P, Weaver, S
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Editorial for special issue on education and humour: Education and humour as tools for social awareness and critical consciousness in contemporary classrooms [PDF]
, 2015 It is not new to consider the instructive power of humour. Both Plato and Aristotle, through their superiority theories, saw the benefit of wit as a social corrective, although they remained suspicious of the uneducated laughter of the masses (Plato in ...
Lindo, LM, Mora, RA, Weaver, S
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The association between sense of humour and trauma-related mental health outcomes: two exploratory studies [PDF]
, 2017 Two studies (n = 73, n = 132) explored the association between sense of humour and trauma related well-being outcomes. It was found that sense of humour was not associated with reports of posttraumatic growth as measured by the Posttraumatic Growth ...
Boerner, Michaela +2 more
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Approaching the audio description of humour [PDF]
, 2010 Este artículo tiene como propósito principal ofrecer una introducción a la audiodescripción (AD) y realizar una aproximación a la cuestión de la AD, a la vez que se comenta brevemente la situación actual de esta práctica y se mencionan algunos de los ...
Martínez-Sierra, Juan José
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I’m not joking! The strategic use of humour in stories of racism [PDF]
, 2017 This study examines the use of humour by Black football coaches in England as a rhetorical device against racism. The paper draws on humour studies and critical race theory to illustrate signs of humour as defence.
Andronoviene L +27 more
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Antimicrobial Peptides from Fruits and Their Potential Use as Biotechnological Tools—A Review and Outlook [PDF]
, 2012 This article explores the relation between humour and control, drawing on participant observation in an organization in which humour was central to daily life.
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Sexist humour and social identity: The role of sexist humour in men’s ingroup cohesion, sexual harassment, rape proclivity and victim blame [PDF]
, 2015 Jokes have been recognised as ways in which negative attitudes and prejudice can be communicated and enacted in hidden ways (e.g., Allport 1954; Freud 2004 [1905]).
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