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Russian attitudes towards humour and laughter
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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Cultural dimensions and characteristics reflected in Hungarian TED talks
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
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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New European tricksters: Polish jokes in the context of European Union labour migration [PDF]
In the context of contemporary European labour migration, where the most publicised pattern of labour migration sees Eastern European migrants move West, the dominant scholarly interpretation of Polish jokes is not applicable for the analysis of much of ...
Ozieranski, P, Weaver, S
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Concept “humour” in the linguistic consciousness of the Russian-speaking population of Ukraine
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
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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Comedic resilience: Arab women’s diaries of national struggles and dissident humour [PDF]
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 ...
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Histidine nutrition and genotype affect cataract development in Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar L. [PDF]
The aim of this study was to investigate effects of dietary levels of histidine (His) and iron (Fe) on cataract development in two strains of Atlantic salmon monitored through parr-smolt transformation.
Bjerkas, E +5 more
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Humour socialisation. Why the Danes are not as funny as they think they are
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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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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