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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.
Maleková, Danica
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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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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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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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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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International Sport Coaching JournalThe purpose of this study was to explore interpretations and implications of head coaches’ use of humour in three national Paralympic teams from the perspective of athletes and integrated support staff. We conducted six focus groups with 19 Paralympic athletes and individual interviews with 10 support staff members across the teams.
Danielle Alexander-Urquhart +3 more
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Power and satire in the front-page images of Mariano Rajoy: visual motifs as political humour
The European Journal of Humour Research, 2021 This article explores the use of photography and visual motifs as forms of political humour in contemporary media. By studying the representation of former Prime Minister of Spain Mariano Rajoy in the front pages of three Spanish newspapers (El Mundo, El
Manuel Garin, Daniel Pérez-Pamies
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Trevor Noah and the contingent politics of racial joking
The European Journal of Humour Research, 2021 This article takes up the transnational comedy career of Trevor Noah as a way to explore how the political work of racial comedy can manifest, circulate and indeed communicate differently across different racial-political contexts.
Jennalee Donian, Nicholas Holm
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