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Ja Pa and Jokes in Nigerian Skits: Humour and the Imagineering of a National Dystopian Consciousness

Journal of African Cultural Studies
The Yoruba coinage ja pa has recently emerged as an impactful urban catchphrase in Nigeria for voicing desired and actual emigration. When used by young people, it is especially humorous, electrifying and impressionistic, articulating their perception of
P. Oloko
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What is the temperamental basis of humour like in China? A cross‐national examination and validation of the standard version of the state–trait cheerfulness inventory

International Journal of Psychology, 2019
The State–Trait Cheerfulness Inventory–trait version (STCI‐T60) consists of three dimensions of cheerfulness, seriousness, and bad mood integrated to measure the temperamental basis of the sense of humour. The present study replicated the three‐dimensional factor structure of the STCI in China using 60 items consistent with other standard trait ...
Lau C., Chiesi F., Saklofske D. H., Yan G.   +3 more
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'Totalitarian Humour'? National Socialist Propaganda and Active Audiences in Entertainment

History Workshop Journal, 2015
What are the dynamics of communication in authoritarian systems and dictatorships? For a long time historians were drawn to simple models of stimulus and response: the dictator speaks and the people react. But in recent years, it has been repeatedly pointed out that propaganda, like any form of communication, runs in two directions.
Patrick Merziger
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4 Dissident Laughter: Diaries of National Struggles and the Aesthetics of Humour

2023
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Ethnic humour in cartoons

Language and Dialogue, 2023
Cartoons are designed as a response to a social event and aim to create a humorous effect in the audience through their multimodal discourse. The interpretation requires contextual and cultural information which has to be shared by the cartoonist and
Răzvan Săftoiu, Noémi Tudor
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5. Humour in the Volksgemeinschaft: The Disappearance of Destructive Satire in National Socialist Germany

2011
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How digital platforms facilitate parody: online humour in the construction of Hong Kong identity

Comedy Studies, 2022
Previous works on Hong Kong identity and popular culture focused on films, television and music. Few studies investigate humour outside of these media and the humour of online communities. This study argues that humour is an important vehicle of identity
Charles Lam
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Framing War with Humour A Multimodal Critical Discourse and Verbal Humour Analysis of Pakistani Memes on the 2025 Pakistan–India Conflict

Journal of Arts and Linguistics Studies
This Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis and Verbal Humour Analysis of Pakistani Memes examines how Pakistani Generation Z employs Instagram memes as a participatory medium to express their perspectives on national identity and geopolitical dynamics ...
Mohib Ullah, Rabeea Maryam, Kamran Ashraf   +2 more
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Raising Minstrelsy: Humour, Satire and the Stereotype in The Birth of a Nation and Bamboozled

Canadian Review of American Studies, 2003
How much does blackface minstrelsy – the first form of American mass culture – share in modern depictions of blackness in popular television and cinema? What (if anything) can be done about the form’s disturbing legacy? Scholarly criticism over the past decade has grappled with these questions to uncertain effect and with limited success, sometimes ...
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‘I Need the White Pill!’ – A Creative Exploration of How Minority Flemish Youth Employ Ethnic Humour for Identity Construction

Cultural Sociology
This article explores how young people with minoritized ethnic (mostly Moroccan or Turkish backgrounds) and religious (Muslim) identities in Flanders employ humour for identity construction.
Anke Lion
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