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The idea of national humour and Americanisation in Australia and Britain

The European Journal of Humour Research, 2022
The widespread notion of a unique national humour involves an impulse to apply the commonplace assumptions of national identity that demand uniqueness of identity, history, language and culture for a political society.
Mark Rolfe
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Comedic resilience: Arab women’s diaries of national struggles and dissident humour [PDF]

Comedy Studies, 2019
AbstractThis article explores the potential strategic functions of humour in diaries that record national struggles by contemporary Arab women, namely Palestinian author Suad Amiry's Sharon and my ...
Hiyem Cheurfa
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The comic of the heroes – a case study of the role of humour in reflecting national identity [PDF]

Brno Studies in English, 2017
The paper deals with the role of humour in relation to myth-making in a small nation. Analysing an essay by a modern Slovak historian, the text documents how the collective awareness of the national insignificance of a community in search of its identity can be subject to subtle comic treatment.
Danica Maleková
exaly   +4 more sources

A laugh for the national project: Contemporary Canadian blackface humour and its constitution through Canadian anti-blackness

Ethnicities, 2018
This article investigates the ways that the ostensible humour associated with contemporary blackface incidents in Canada is constituted. It argues that the conditions of possibility for contemporary Canadian blackface humour are an anti-black libidinal economy dependent upon the tropes of biological racism, and a socially embedded, psychic association ...
Philip Howard
exaly   +3 more sources

Feeling superior? National identity and humour in British castles [PDF]

Tourism Recreation Research, 2019
This study explores how humour in tourism can communicate facets of national identity. In particular, the paper focuses on the presentation by guides of two English and two Scottish castles. Drawing on multiple sources, including an analysis of promotional materials, the text of the guide’s narratives, on-site observation, and TripAdvisor comments from
Carol X. Zhang, Philip Pearce
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International misrecognition: The politics of humour and national identity in Israel’s public diplomacy [PDF]

European Journal of International Relations, 2018
Recognition, or the lack of it, is a central concern in International Relations. However, how states cope with international misrecognition has so far not been thoroughly explored in International Relations scholarship. To address this, the article presents a theoretical framework for understanding international misrecognition by drawing on discursive ...
Adler-Nissen, Rebecca, Tsinovoi, Alexei
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Nordic Humour

Nordlit: Tidsskrift i litteratur og kultur, 2023
Starting from my former empirical studies but supplemented with fresh fictional “data” from Lars von Trier’s latest TV series Riget Exodus (2022), I first describe how Danes use humour in very characteristic ways, also in cross-cultural professional ...
Lita Lundquist
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National And Cultural Specifics Of Humour In English Political And Economic Programmes

European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences, 2021
The article is devoted to the study of stylistic means of creating humorous effect in British and American political and economic programmes, reflecting national and cultural humour characteristics. Nowadays people tend to be involved in economic situation; thus, the number of programmes on the topic is increasing both on TV and the Internet.
Elena Yuryevna Antipova
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Black humour in Ukrainian war memes

The European Journal of Humour Research
This article investigates the cognitive foundations of Ukrainian war-related black humour memes through their conceptual modeling. Black humour is reinterpreted as a meme genre through the lens of fundamental humour theories.
Ievgeniia Bondarenko
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Humour as a reflection of the national mentality in the context of teaching foreign languages and cultures

The scientific and methodological journal "Foreign Languages"
The article examines the phenomenon of humour as a manifestation of national mentality. It explains the expediency and importance of using humorous materials in teaching the French language and French culture: a lack of understanding of Frenchthinking and French intellectual heritage will make communication with native speakers difficult.
Yevhenii Melnyk
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