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A discourse analysis of national identity in Nigerian stand-up humour

Discourse Studies, 2020
This article explores the comedic construction of national identity in Nigerian stand-up comedy. By national identity, I mean collective perspectives on the sociopolitical and cultural realities of postcolonial Nigeria. While critical discourse analysis provided the framework for interpretation, data was derived from purposively sampled recorded ...
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National And Cultural Specifics Of Humour In English Political And Economic Programmes

European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences, 2021
The article is devoted to the study of stylistic means of creating humorous effect in British and American political and economic programmes, reflecting national and cultural humour characteristics. Nowadays people tend to be involved in economic situation; thus, the number of programmes on the topic is increasing both on TV and the Internet.
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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.
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‘A Nation that Laughs Together, Stays Together’: Deconstructing Humour on Twitter During the National Lockdown in South Africa

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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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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