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Semantic jokes involve resolving an incongruity emerging from wordplay or from a violation of world knowledge. The research has shown individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) demonstrate a lower performance on humor tasks involving social ...
Bat-el Yankovitz +2 more
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Linguistic analysis of a humorous dialogic discourse (on the material of German-, English - and Russian everyday joke) [PDF]
The research shows what features and functions distinguish everyday joke from other types of text. It focuses on the genre of joke and its repetitive, dynamic elements in a descriptive context.
Tyukina Lydmila +2 more
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Computer literacy in secondary education: The performance and engagement of girls [PDF]
This research study examines performance and engagement in computer literacy of boys and girls (N = 873). Performance and engagement in computer literacy are established with CAST.
Voogt, Joke
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Discourse types in stand-up comedy performances: an example of Nigerian stand-up comedy
The primary focus of this paper is to apply Discourse Type theory to stand-up comedy. To achieve this, the study postulates two contexts in stand-up joking stories: context of the joke and context in the joke.
Ibukun Filani
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The variability of the jokes of Persian telegram before and after the telegram filtering in Iran [PDF]
The media along with modern technologies have been influential in the transformation of the cultural and social characteristics of a society. In this regard, humor and irony on general and jokes as a part of sub-culture may be effective in the process of
mohammad ali talebi +2 more
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«It’s Only a Joke!» What is an Offensive Joke among Adolescents?
All of us cannot imagine adolescents' daily communication without humor and making fun of each other. Jokes can help strengthen friendships, smooth out the awkwardness, or maintain status in the group, but sometimes jokes become a means of humiliation ...
Pavel Romanovich Gulyaev +3 more
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Dirty hands: Bribery in Russian anecdote [PDF]
The study of the speech-genre and formal-semantic properties of Russian anecdotes on bribery is based the corpus of anecdotes, which also include jokes of Russian-speaking Ukrainians, differing from Russian ones only in the names of the “protagonists ...
Vorkachev, Sergey Grigorievich
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It has often been remarked that jokes involve some form of distorted logic, but the details of this joke logic have not been fully explored. We offer a contribution to the methodology of this exploration by clarifying some abstract theoretical ...
Graeme Ritchie
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Courseware evaluation by teachers: An implementation perspective [PDF]
This study has investigated teachers' criteria for the use of courseware packages in the classroom. The starting point of the study was the assumption that it is the teacher who decides whether or not courseware will be used in the classroom.
Voogt, Joke
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