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Humour socialisation. Why the Danes are not as funny as they think they are
Globe, 2021 The article presents the main idea from my recently published book on Danes’ use of humour in professional relations with non-Danes. The key notion is humour socialisation.
Lita Lundquist
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Cultural dimensions and characteristics reflected in Hungarian TED talks
The European Journal of Humour Research, 2020 The present paper is aimed at exploring humour and cultural aspects in TED talks recorded at Hungarian independent TEDx standard events. Applying Speck’s (1991) humour taxonomy, a corpus of 30 Hungarian language talks have been classified based on Barry &
Emese Pozdena
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Feminist humor in the Ukrainian social media
Український соціум, 2023 Humour is instrumental in drawing attention to controversial topics like gender inequality. This empirical study aims to distinguish the culture-specifics of feminist humour in the Ukrainian social media sector by identifying women’s main techniques to ...
Khraban T. Ye.
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Concept “humour” in the linguistic consciousness of the Russian-speaking population of Ukraine
The European Journal of Humour Research, 2020 The purpose of this study was to define and to describe the semantic components of the stimulus word humour in the linguistic consciousness of young Russian-speaking people from Eastern Ukraine.
Iuliia Kobzieva +3 more
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Who We Are Is What Makes Us Laugh: Humour as Discourse on Identity and Hegemony
Interlitteraria, 2019 There exists a sociocultural function to humour that is geared towards maintaining order through a subversion (or inversion) of the more serious, structured status quo, and while there is a pragmatic side to the dispensation of humour across any given ...
Christian Ylagan
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The European Journal of Humour Research, 2022 Successfully joining a new workplace community is demanding, especially when this involves crossing national boundaries in addition to team boundaries.
Meredith Marra
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Humour and the creative powers of language, or when sentiments turn into centiments
Taikomoji kalbotyra, 2016 Humour is part of human communication and can serve as an effective means for making contact, finding a way out of an embarrassing situation, or mitigating different political and social tensions.
Inesa Šeškauskienė +2 more
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The European Journal of Humour Research, 2021 As Chinese people engaged with the Australian cultural scene in recent years, two posts about its humour attracted considerable attention from netizens in the People’s Republic of China.
Jocelyn Valerie Chey
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Humour at the Model United Nations: The Role of Laughter in Constituting Geopolitical Assemblages [PDF]
Geopolitics, 2013 Model United Nations (MUN) is a simulation in which students take on the roles of ambassadors to the United Nations, engaging in debate on ‘real’ issues from the perspective of their assumed national identities. This paper, based on a year of ethnography and interviews of a college-level MUN team, examines the role of humour in producing particular ...
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Spontaneous humour and Malaysia’s democratic breakthrough in 2018
The European Journal of Humour Research, 2021 The 2018 Malaysian general election was the first democratic change of government in the nation’s modern history. The victory of the Pakatan Harapan (Alliance of Hope – PH) coalition surprised several observers within and outside the country, especially ...
Shanon Shah
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