Patron Saints in the times of Christianization. Some reflections about Great Moravian dedications
Folia Historica Cracoviensia, 2017 The study sums up previous research of Great Moravian dedications. The research of this issue is rather challenging – mainly because a lot of then churches existed only for a short period of time. Many of Great Moravian churches were built during the 9th
Petr Jokeš
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Jokes are not Innocent: Representation of Punjabis in Pashto Jokes
University 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
Frontiers 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]
, 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]
, 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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The perils of parody : joking with stereotypes in a postcolonial context in Cien años de soledad [PDF]
, 2016 This article examines the comic treatment of the characters in Cien años de soledad. It challenges the previous studies of the novel’s comedy, which have tended to conclude that its comic formulas are necessarily subversive and carnivalesque.
McAleer, Paul
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Outbreak of a new phytoplasma disease of onion in the Czech Republic
Plant 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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Géographie mondiale des blagues
M@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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In Defense of Comic Pluralism [PDF]
, 2017 Jokes are sometimes morally objectionable, and sometimes they are not. What’s the relationship between a joke’s being morally objectionable and its being funny? Philosophers’ answers to this question run the gamut.
Sharadin, Nathaniel
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Genre, 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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