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2021
From the seemingly mundane jokes about everyday life in lockdown to the viral video of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa struggling to put on his mask correctly, there was never a dull moment on Twitter during the lockdown period. Indeed, the comic relief was no doubt a welcome diversion amidst the stringent stay-at-home rules of the hitherto ...
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From the seemingly mundane jokes about everyday life in lockdown to the viral video of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa struggling to put on his mask correctly, there was never a dull moment on Twitter during the lockdown period. Indeed, the comic relief was no doubt a welcome diversion amidst the stringent stay-at-home rules of the hitherto ...
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'Totalitarian Humour'? National Socialist Propaganda and Active Audiences in Entertainment
History Workshop Journal, 2015What 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.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Chapter 10. Humour and… Stalin in a National Theatre of Greece postmodern production
2011This study focuses on the function of humour in a postmodern performance which explored Stalinism as a paradigm of power politics and suggested that Stalinism is comparable to Modern Greek theatre. The performance suggests that non-conformist art can be denied acceptance and/or success and that both Stalinism and Modern Greek theatre are powerful ...
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Feeling superior? National identity and humour in British castles
Tourism Recreation Research, 2020Carol Zhang, Philip L. Pearce
exaly
2020
Humour is one of the most prevalent features of social life. It pervades human interaction and even occurs in situations where it is not normally regarded as appropriate. Humour has several other functions in human conversation besides just making people laugh. Using a form of joke prevalent among students at the National University of Lesotho known as
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Humour is one of the most prevalent features of social life. It pervades human interaction and even occurs in situations where it is not normally regarded as appropriate. Humour has several other functions in human conversation besides just making people laugh. Using a form of joke prevalent among students at the National University of Lesotho known as
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Strategic humour: Public diplomacy and comic framing of foreign policy issues
British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 2022Dmitry Chernobrov
exaly