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The South African Redistribution Imperative: Incongruities in Theory and Practice [PDF]
Journal of African Law, 2021 AbstractIt has partly been assumed that the constitutional obligation to pay compensation for expropriations is to blame for the slow pace at which land has been redistributed in South Africa. However, this assumption requires careful analysis and reflection, with reference to the imperfections of the policies and laws that set out to address ...
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Incongruity-based adaptive game balancing
, 2010 Commercial games possess various methods of game balancing. Each of them modifies the game’s entertainment value for players of different skill levels. This paper deals with one of them, viz.
Lankveld, G van +15 more
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Analyzing the humorous communicative interactions during the wartimes in Aceh
Studies in English Language and Education, 2020 Prolonged armed conflicts between the Government of Indonesia and the Free Aceh Movement/Gerakan Aceh Merdeka (GAM) happened from 1976 to 2005. The three-decade-vertical political conflicts have received worldwide attention in research, except its ...
Jarjani Usman, Fauzan Fauzan
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Humorous Judgments of Incongruity in Short Internet Videos [PDF]
, 2021 With an increased reliance on technology to exchange social communication, social media platforms have become vehicles for humorous content — often taking the form of short internet videos (Vine or TikTok).
Haines, Zachary A., Roche, Jennifer
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Impact of Relational Incongruity on Customer Ownership and Sales Outcome Performance: A Resource-Advantage Theory Approach [PDF]
, 2017 There exists heightened research attention afforded to the pivotal demands - both internal and external - that exist within the salesperson role set. Unprecedented pressures on salespersons to acquire, retain, and build enduring customer relationships to
Fergurson, Ricky
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Investigating vision in schizophrenia through responses to humorous stimuli
Schizophrenia Research: Cognition, 2015 The visual environment of humans contains abundant ambiguity and fragmentary information. Therefore, an early step of vision must disambiguate the incessant stream of information.
Wolfgang Tschacher +4 more
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Indonesian humorous status in social media: An application of script-based semantic theory of humour
Studies in English Language and Education, 2020 This paper aims to analyse Indonesian humorous status in social media by applying the Script Semantic Theory of Humour (SSTH) and the parameters called Knowledge Resources (KRs) of the General Theory of Verbal Humour (GTVH). It is conducted by applying a
Sisila Fitriany Damanik, Mulyadi Mulyadi
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The European Journal of Humour Research, 2017 John Morreall (2016) Laughing All the Way. Your Sense of Humour. Don’t Leave Home without It. Melbourne, Florida: Motivational Press, 288 pp.
Stanca Măda
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Mortal Bodies, Disgust, and Affective Incongruity in Stand-Up Comedy [PDF]
, 2022 Aging and death can function as unwelcome reminders of human mortality, and Western cultural history has tended to frame bodily transformations towards death as disgusting. In the context of humor and comedy, disgust has often transformed into ridiculing
Hakola, Outi
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The European Journal of Humour Research, 2017 Joking Asides: The Theory, Analysis and Aesthetics of Humour is a collection of twelve essays on humour, and more specifically on jokes, written by Elliot Oring, professor emeritus of anthropology and folklorist. In this review, I try to present his work,
Chiara Mazzocconi
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