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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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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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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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Russian attitudes towards humour and laughter
The European Journal of Humour Research, 2017 Different phenomena related to humour and laughter, such as humour styles, gelotophobia, gelotophilia and katagelasticism, were investigated in a series of psychological studies in Russia.
Alyona Ivanova +2 more
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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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The European Journal of Humour Research, 2013 The paper explores the reception of Aristophanes’ first extant comedy The Acharnians (425 BC) in post-war Greek modern theatre by the two government-sponsored theatre institutions of Greece, namely the National Theatre of Greece (NTG) and the National ...
Vicky Manteli
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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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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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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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