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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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A Complexity Science Account of Humor
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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Canned jokes in Russian public political discourse
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
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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A Pragmatic Analysis of Implicatures in Covid-19 Coronavirus English Jokes
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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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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Polish Jokes about Americans [PDF]
The objective of the present paper is to analyze the character of Polish jokes about Americans and to find out what these jokes say about Poles. The latter question results from the assumption that stereotypes reveal more about those who propagate them ...
Brzozowska, Dorota, Dorota Brzozowska
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Is this a joke? Metalinguistic reflections on verbal jokes during the school years
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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