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Interpersonal competence, social assertiveness and the development of humour
British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 1986Social and personality correlates of humour were studied with a college age sample ( n = 446) and a small sample of elderly women ( n = 27). In the college sample, self‐monitoring of expressive behaviour and social assertiveness were more important ...
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The social meaning and function of humour in physiotherapy practice: An ethnography
Physiotherapy Theory and Practice, 2010An ethnographic study was undertaken over a period of 8 months to explore the social meaning and function of humour in the practice of a team of physiotherapists in a UK National Health Service hospital. Interviews were carried out following the observations to gain the therapists' perspectives in an open critical exploration of assumptions and ideas ...
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Language and Humour in Cameroon Social Media
2016This chapter explores language use that incites laughter in Cameroon e-mail, Facebook, Yahoo Messenger and mobile telephone SMS. The incongruity and the incongruity-resolution theory (Ritchie, 1999; Mulder & Nijholt, 2002) and Gricean maxims were useful in the analysis of 270 electronic chats and messages. Results indicate patterns of language that
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A philosophical approach to satire and humour in social context
2020The topic of my dissertation is satire. This seems to excite many people, and over the past four years I have heard many variations of a similar refrain: “Oh, wow. You’re studying satire? That’s very topical. You must have a lot of material to work with.” There is a way in which this is true, though I suspect in a way that diverges from the way that ...
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Strategic humour: Public diplomacy and comic framing of foreign policy issues
British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 2022Dmitry Chernobrov
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Merry Hell: Humour Competence and Social Incompetence
2005Most of us like to think we have a good sense of humour, so much so, in fact, that in personal advertisements it is the most common characteristic people use to advertise themselves and request others to have. Attempts to understand such a central aspect of our self-identity date from at least Plato1 (c.350 BCE) and more recently humour has ...
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The politics and aesthetics of humour in an age of comic controversy
European Journal of Cultural Studies, 2022Ivo Nieuwenhuis, Dick Zijp
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