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Poofy Dresses and Big Guns: A poststructuralist analysis of gendered positioning through talk amongst friends [PDF]
, 2006 This article uses data collected from a class of eight to nine year-olds to show the specific ways children are defining their gendered positions within the context of their same-sex friendship groups.
Willett, Rebekah
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Old Jokes, New Media – Online Sexism and Constructions of Gender in Internet Memes [PDF]
, 2018 The Internet is a space where the harassment of women and marginalised groups online has attracted the attention of both academic and popular press.
Billig M. +11 more
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Humour scandals in the Finnish political public sphere in 1990–2020
The European Journal of Humour ResearchHumour is a part of contemporary mediated political struggles. At times, humour itself becomes politicised, turning into public controversies or humour scandals.
Juha Herkman, Joonas Koivukoski
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Humour and Leadership at School [PDF]
, 2010 Humour and Leadership at School This study establishes a relationship between the capacity of humour appreciation and the way leadership is held at school. The individual leadership characteristics of some school leaders have been compared with their
Adão, Teresa, Oliveira, Ana Maria
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Reading between the laughter lines: Alan Riach explores the complex world of literary humour [PDF]
, 2016 No abstract ...
Riach, Alan
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Echoes of counterculture in Stefano Benni's humour [PDF]
, 2005 Stefano Benni’s first novel, Terra! (1983) - a sci-fi spoof and a satire of contemporary life - set the trend for his subsequent fiction. Blending fantasy, pop culture, literary pastiche and current affairs, Benni’s political and social satires have been
Boria, M
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Humour processes for creative engineering design [PDF]
, 2016 Humour has long been associated with creativity, however the link has rarely been applied to engineering design. This paper highlights analogies between humour creation and engineering design, and discusses opportunities to develop new processes and ...
Hatcher, Gillian +5 more
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“I get it, but it’s just not funny”: Why humour fails, after all is said and done
The European Journal of Humour Research, 2018 Failed humour can be explained by communicative gaps, at either the semantic or pragmatic levels, but sometimes, after all is ‘said and done’, people resist humour for purely discursive reasons.
Adrian Hale
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Humour and humanism. The role of funniness in an imperfect life
The European Journal of Humour ResearchThis article explores the relationship between humour and humanism. We argue that humour is a pivotal part of human life, and demonstrate that it plays a significant role in the writings of various humanist authors.
Jarno Hietalahti
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Applying humour in Malaysian university settings: The perceptions of lecturers
Social Sciences and Humanities OpenThis study investigated lecturers’ application of humour in Malaysian university settings. Eleven local Malaysian university lecturers from different local universities participated in this qualitative study.
Mazlin Mohamed Mokhtar +5 more
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