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Nordlit: Tidsskrift i litteratur og kultur, 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 ...
Lita Lundquist
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Iperstoria, 2019 This paper contributes to the growing field of research on English as a business lingua franca (BELF) and extends discussion on the role of culture and cultural knowledge in business interactions. It aims to provide insights into the relationship between
Tiina Räisänen
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The social construction of humour
Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa, 2001 Fiji journalistic cartoons, especially when making political critiques, tend to be too shallow with an irritating tendency to state and show the obvious, a cardinal sin in cartooning.
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Humour as a Boundary-Breaker in Social Work Practice
Ethics and Social Welfare, 2023 Professional boundaries are an important aspect of social work theory and praxis – yet it is an underexplored topic within the research literature. Research often explores specific types of professional boundary issue rather than exploring social workers’ boundary stories or boundary narratives.
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Editorial: Humour and social media [PDF]
The European Journal of Humour Research, 2017 Editorial: Humour and social ...
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Humour in Firm-initiated Social Media Conversations
International Journal of Digital Culture and Electronic Tourism, 2018 Humour plays an important role in driving firm-consumer conversations on social media, yet the examination of humour from a rhetorical perspective remains unheeded in marketing and tourism literature. Drawing on the linguistic concepts of moves, speech acts, humour and rhetorical appeals, this research aims to develop a conceptual model for applying ...
Ge, Jing, Gretzel, Ulrike, Zhu, Yunxia
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The Role of Humour in the Social Care Professions: An Exploratory Study [PDF]
The British Journal of Social Work, 2019 Abstract Six social care professionals were recruited to take part in in-depth interviews that sought to explore their phenomenological experiences of humour within their place of work. Using an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) approach, the results suggest that humour serves various important functions within social care ...
Fogarty, Molly, Elliot, Dely Lazarte
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Critique sociale, humour et Valence
Cahiers d’Études Romanes, 2015 Le but de cet article est de montrer que les œuvres de Ferran Torrent publiées dans ces quinze dernières années (à partir de 1999) s’inscrivent intégralement dans le genre du roman noir, bien qu’avec des modifications, pour constituer, d’une part, un portrait acéré des changements sociaux, politiques et urbanistiques de la ville de Valence gouvernée ...
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Social Criticism through Humour in the Digital Age [PDF]
European Comic Art, 2018 Numerous authors of comics and graphic novels have used the economic crisis in the Iberian Peninsula as a narrative frame for social criticism. Prominent amongst them is the Catalan cartoonist Aleix Saló, who burst onto the comics scene with his animated YouTube video Españistán, a book trailer for his graphic novel Españistán: Este país se va a la ...
Javier Muñoz-Basols +1 more
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Political ridicule and humour under socialism [PDF]
European Journal of Humour Research, 2014 Socialism produces distinct forms of humorous ridicule that are relatively rare in capitalist, bourgeois democracies. These forms are arranged in a hierarchy that reflects the distribution of power in this type of social and political order, one which differs markedly from a bourgeois democracy or indeed even a traditional or dictatorial authoritarian ...
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