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Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 2017
ABSTRACTIn this paper I argue that the rape joke is the joke par excellence. The ur-joke. Jokes speak the truth like dreams and symptoms and errors. The rape joke does not simply speak a truth—the truth about rape, or rapists—its truth is oddly the truth of joking itself and the tragicomedic vicissitudes of human sexuality.
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ABSTRACTIn this paper I argue that the rape joke is the joke par excellence. The ur-joke. Jokes speak the truth like dreams and symptoms and errors. The rape joke does not simply speak a truth—the truth about rape, or rapists—its truth is oddly the truth of joking itself and the tragicomedic vicissitudes of human sexuality.
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Jewish Jokes, Anti-Semitic Jokes and Hebredonian Jokes
2017Throughout Europe and North America Jews probably figure more frequently in jokes than any other ethnic group and there are three sources of these jokes. They are Jewish Jokes, Anti-Semitic Jokes and Hebredonian Jokes. Jokes that can also be told in much the same form about, say, the Scots, the Netherlanders or the Cardis, who are not the victims of ...
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JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1989
To the Editor. — Research findings are beginning to accumulate that suggest humor and laughter might be therapeutic and could be used to reduce disease symptoms. 1 Applications have been developed already, for example, humorrooms in hospitals. Since clinical evaluations still seem to be lacking, the present report of a first attempt at implementing ...
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To the Editor. — Research findings are beginning to accumulate that suggest humor and laughter might be therapeutic and could be used to reduce disease symptoms. 1 Applications have been developed already, for example, humorrooms in hospitals. Since clinical evaluations still seem to be lacking, the present report of a first attempt at implementing ...
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Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing, 2006
T S t IT IS 10:20 on Tuesday morning. You arrive in the Phase I PACU for a 10:30 AM to 7:00 PM shift, change clothes, check the assignment board, and find you are to recover the patient who underwent the 8:00 AM carotid endarterectomy (CEA), who will go to ICU postoperatively.
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T S t IT IS 10:20 on Tuesday morning. You arrive in the Phase I PACU for a 10:30 AM to 7:00 PM shift, change clothes, check the assignment board, and find you are to recover the patient who underwent the 8:00 AM carotid endarterectomy (CEA), who will go to ICU postoperatively.
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Marketing Theory, 2015
Unflattering representations of salesmanship in mass media exist in abundance. In order to gauge the depiction of selling in mass media, this article explores the nature and public perceptions of salesmanship using editorial cartoons. A theory of cartooning suggests that editorial cartoons reflect public sentiment toward events and issues and therefore
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Unflattering representations of salesmanship in mass media exist in abundance. In order to gauge the depiction of selling in mass media, this article explores the nature and public perceptions of salesmanship using editorial cartoons. A theory of cartooning suggests that editorial cartoons reflect public sentiment toward events and issues and therefore
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Scientific American
Abstract This chapter focuses on the linguistic functioning of jokes. Jokes entertain; but they do much more; among other things, they also communicate information in different, and typically quite complex, ways. The chapter explores the nature of humor, discusses a definition of jokes, and assesses some different accounts of how jokes ...
Ishani Maitra, Mary Kate McGowan
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Abstract This chapter focuses on the linguistic functioning of jokes. Jokes entertain; but they do much more; among other things, they also communicate information in different, and typically quite complex, ways. The chapter explores the nature of humor, discusses a definition of jokes, and assesses some different accounts of how jokes ...
Ishani Maitra, Mary Kate McGowan
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Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management, 2008
In a corpus of jokes, a human might judge two documents to be the "same joke" even if characters, locations, and other details are varied. A given joke could be retold with an entirely different vocabulary while still maintaining its identity. Since most retrieval systems consider documents to be related only when their word content is similar, we ...
Lisa Friedland, James Allan 0001
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In a corpus of jokes, a human might judge two documents to be the "same joke" even if characters, locations, and other details are varied. A given joke could be retold with an entirely different vocabulary while still maintaining its identity. Since most retrieval systems consider documents to be related only when their word content is similar, we ...
Lisa Friedland, James Allan 0001
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Joking remarks and joking intentions
Abstract This chapter, which focuses on joking remarks, distinguishes between two senses of ‘to joke’: to say something one believes to be false with the intent to amuse, or to say something either true or false with the intent to amuse.openaire +1 more source
1990
ÖZ ESÎN M. Tayları Yüksek Lisans Tezi, Sosyoloji Bölümü Tez Yöneticisi: Doç. Dr. Yakın Ertürk Ağustos 1990, 86 sahi f e Tezin ilk kısmında, gülme ve fıkraları konu edinen sosyolojik literatürün beşeri bilimler ve Batı düşüncesi ile ilişkisi irdelenmektedir.
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ÖZ ESÎN M. Tayları Yüksek Lisans Tezi, Sosyoloji Bölümü Tez Yöneticisi: Doç. Dr. Yakın Ertürk Ağustos 1990, 86 sahi f e Tezin ilk kısmında, gülme ve fıkraları konu edinen sosyolojik literatürün beşeri bilimler ve Batı düşüncesi ile ilişkisi irdelenmektedir.
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