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"Dissecting the poisoned honey" Sexist Humor in Egypt: A linguistic analysis of sexism in Colloquial Cairene Arabic jokes [PDF]

open access: yesAnàlisi: Quaderns de Comunicació i Cultura, 2014
This paper attempts to shed light on sexism in Egyptian Internet jokes. It examines how language, as an institution largely controlled by men, is manipulated and used to disparage women in this discursive mode of humor.
Heba Nayef, Mohamed El-Nashar
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Jokes are not Innocent: Representation of Punjabis in Pashto Jokes

open access: yesUniversity of Chitral Journal of Linguistics and Literature, 2018
In this paper, the researcher analysed racist or ethnic jokes as a genre of discourse to investigate the issue of representation of Punjabis in Pashto jokes.
Muhammad Waqar Ali
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Neural Correlates of Hostile Jokes: Cognitive and Motivational Processes in Humor Appreciation

open access: yesFrontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2016
Hostile jokes provide aggressive catharsis and a feeling of superiority. Behavioral research has found that hostile jokes are perceived as funnier than non-hostile jokes.
Yu-Chen Chan   +3 more
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New European tricksters: Polish jokes in the context of European Union labour migration [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
In the context of contemporary European labour migration, where the most publicised pattern of labour migration sees Eastern European migrants move West, the dominant scholarly interpretation of Polish jokes is not applicable for the analysis of much of ...
Ozieranski, P, Weaver, S
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It’s the way he tells them (and who is listening):men’s dominance is positively correlated with their preference for jokes told by dominant-sounding men [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
While much research has explored humorous exchange in relation to mate choice, recent perspectives have emphasized the importance of humor for monitoring interest within social partnerships more generally.
Cowan, Mary Louise   +4 more
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Géographie mondiale des blagues

open access: yesM@ppemonde, 2022
Jokes between countries are useful to reveal the ethnotypes existing in each of them, representing them in cartographic form allows to perceive their distribution and the spatial projection of mockery: who are we laughing at, who are the scapegoats for ...
Hervé Théry
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Logic and reasoning in jokes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Peer reviewedPublisher ...
Ritchie, Graeme
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Les « plaisanteries » des collègues de travail : terrain d’oppression et de résistance à la violence pour les personnes LGBTQ+

open access: yesGenre, Sexualité et Société, 2023
Based on the results of an interview survey in Quebec on the factors of inclusion and exclusion of LGBTQ+ people in different areas of their lives, this article deals with an aspect that has not yet been widely exploited as a subject of study, the ...
Émilie Morand   +3 more
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Outbreak of a new phytoplasma disease of onion in the Czech Republic

open access: yesPlant Protection Science, 2000
In 1999, split vegetation tops in onions, cv. Stutgartska, grown in the surroundings of Prague, Bohemia, were observed. Such plants developed two or more bulbs from one originally planted.
Jaroslav Polák, Milan Jokeš
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«It’s Only a Joke!» What is an Offensive Joke among Adolescents?

open access: yesИнтеракция. Интервью. Интерпретация, 2021
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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