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Translating Linguistic and Situation-based Jokes from Arabic into English

open access: yesمجلة الآداب, 2022
Jokes have increasingly become the medium through which people in different Arab countries express their concerns. Social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter are full of jokes tackling various spheres of life.
Tawffeek Abdou Saeed Mohammed Al-Kenani
doaj   +1 more source

Stereotypy w dowcipach macedońskich [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The goal of the article Stereotypes in Macedonian Jokes is to demonstrate that jokes are based on stereotypes which tend to be consolidated and disseminated by means of jokes.
Błaszak, Magdalena
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Huumoripoleemikad ja uurijaeetika [PDF]

open access: yesMäetagused, 2014
The link between jokes and social reality is visible in the way that jokes adapt to different socio-political contexts by dealing with the most salient issues of such contexts.
Liisi Laineste
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Substandard linguistic items in Russian canned jokes

open access: yesШаги
This article analyzes Russian canned jokes with substandard linguistic items. Two types of such jokes are distinguished: (1) jokes where obscene words serve the point and (2) jokes where obscene words increase the humorous effect.
E. Ia. Shmeleva, A. D. Shmelev
doaj   +1 more source

Globalisation and ethnic jokes: A new look on an old tradition in Belarus and Estonia

open access: yesThe European Journal of Humour Research, 2017
Christie Davies, the renowned humour researcher and a passionate propagator of the comparative method in studying jokes, stressed the necessity of establishing a relationship between two sets of social facts: the jokes themselves on the one hand, and the
Liisi Laineste, Anastasiya Fiadotava
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Sexual jokes at school and students’ life satisfaction: findings from the 2017/18 Swedish Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study

open access: yesBMC Research Notes, 2021
Objective In a previous study we demonstrated that the occurrence of sexual jokes in the class was associated with higher levels of psychological health complaints.
Sara Brolin Låftman   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Genre and stylistic markers of Ukrainian folk jokes

open access: yesThe European Journal of Humour Research, 2023
This article focuses on the study of Ukrainian social and domestic folk jokes that contain information about the life of people, their habits, customs, traditions, and relations, and ridicule the weak sides of Ukrainians. The research material comprises
Olena Yemelyanova   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Treasures in jokes and cartoons: You really must be joking! [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Humour has been practically neglected in the teaching of English in Malaysia and Asia as well, perhaps due to the conservative nature of its people. Yet, we go through cartoons in the dailies, enjoy jokes over the radio and try by all means not to miss ...
Vellaykuti, Pokar
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Protein pyrophosphorylation by inositol pyrophosphates — detection, function, and regulation

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Protein pyrophosphorylation is an unusual signaling mechanism that was discovered two decades ago. It can be driven by inositol pyrophosphate messengers and influences various cellular processes. Herein, we summarize the research progress and challenges of this field, covering pathways found to be regulated by this posttranslational modification as ...
Sarah Lampe   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Structural instability impairs function of the UDP‐xylose synthase 1 Ile181Asn variant associated with short‐stature genetic syndrome in humans

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
The Ile181Asn variant of human UDP‐xylose synthase (hUXS1), associated with a short‐stature genetic syndrome, has previously been reported as inactive. Our findings demonstrate that Ile181Asn‐hUXS1 retains catalytic activity similar to the wild‐type but exhibits reduced stability, a looser oligomeric state, and an increased tendency to precipitate ...
Tuo Li   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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