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The Victorian Meme Machine: Remixing the Nineteenth-Century Archive. [PDF]
, 2015 In summer 2014 Bob Nicholson began working with the British Library Labs on a new project that aims to find and revive Victorian jokes. It began with two key aims: to build a high-quality, open access, research database of one million Victorian jokes ...
Nicholson, Bob
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A Complexity Science Account of Humor
Entropy, 2023 A common assumption of psychological theories of humor is that experienced funniness results from an incongruity between stimuli provided by a verbal joke or visual pun, followed by a sudden, surprising resolution of incongruity.
Wolfgang Tschacher, Hermann Haken
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A Pragmatic Analysis of Implicatures in Covid-19 Coronavirus English Jokes
مجلة الآداب, 2022 The present study aims at examining implicature in covid-19 Coronavirus jokes in the light of a neo-Gricean approach. For carrying out a meaningful analysis of jokes, an eclectic model is adopted.
Sahira Mousa Salman +2 more
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Canned jokes in Russian public political discourse
The European Journal of Humour Research, 2013 The paper addresses a well-documented genre of Russian canned jokes from a socio-pragmatic perspective. The goal of the paper is twofold: firstly, it aims at examining a relatively new phenomenon of telling jokes in public political discourse.
Ksenia Shilikhina
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KOHESI GRAMATIKAL DAN LEKSIKAL DALAM KUMPULAN JOKES "THE GOD LOVES GOLFERS" KARYA RAY FOLEY
Prasasti: Journal of Linguistics, 2018 Penelitian ini menganalisis kumpulan jokes berbahasa Inggris. Pendekatan yang dilakukan dalam penelitian ini menggunakan analisis wacana. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk: (1) mendeskripsikan penanda kohesi gramatikal dalam teks jokes karya Ray Foley, (
Sri Wahyuni Samaratul Zanah +2 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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The European Journal of Humour Research, 2018 This paper is a tribute to Belarusian folklorist and ethnographer Uladzimir Sysou (1951-1997) whose extensive legacy includes collecting 139 jokes during his field research in southern Belarus in 1995.
Anastasiya Fiadotava
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Practical jokes: don Delillo´s ratner´s star and literary games [PDF]
, 2018 “Literary games” are strategies employed by writers to draw attention to, to disrupt, and even to subvert the conventions of literary production and reading.
Pritchard, Simon J.
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Gender stereotypes depicted in online sexist jokes
The European Journal of Humour Research, 2019 This research aimed to explore gender stereotypes depicted in online sexist jokes collected from laughfactory.com. Linguistically speaking, jokes as a subtype of humour have become a common phenomenon in our everyday lives.
Anastasia Nelladia Cendra +2 more
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Is this a joke? Metalinguistic reflections on verbal jokes during the school years
EuroAmerican Journal of Applied Linguistics and Languages, 2016 The ability to produce and comprehend multiple meanings in words and expressions, such as those included in linguistic humor, develops during the school years and is directly related to the development of metalinguistic reflection.
Karina Hess Zimmermann
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