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Humour and the creative powers of language, or when sentiments turn into centiments

Taikomoji kalbotyra, 2016
Humour is part of human communication and can serve as an effective means for making contact, finding a way out of an embarrassing situation, or mitigating different political and social tensions.
Inesa Šeškauskienė, Virginija Masiulionytė, Birutė Ryvitytė   +2 more
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Overcoming awkwardness

The European Journal of Humour Research, 2021
As Chinese people engaged with the Australian cultural scene in recent years, two posts about its humour attracted considerable attention from netizens in the People’s Republic of China.
Jocelyn Valerie Chey
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Spontaneous humour and Malaysia’s democratic breakthrough in 2018

The European Journal of Humour Research, 2021
The 2018 Malaysian general election was the first democratic change of government in the nation’s modern history. The victory of the Pakatan Harapan (Alliance of Hope – PH) coalition surprised several observers within and outside the country, especially ...
Shanon Shah
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Socialist film co-productions. The case of the Polish-Czechoslovak film co-production What Will My Wife Say to This? (1958) by Jaroslav Mach [PDF]

, 2015
This article offers an analysis of the Polish-Czechoslovak co-production What Will My Wife Say to This? (Co řekne žena, 1958, directed by Jaroslav Mach) as seen from the perspective of production-related and cultural factors.
Ciszewska, Ewa
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Addressing Social Issues Using Humors in Mayat (1978) Dramatic Text by Hatta Azad Khan

Responsible Education, Learning and Teaching in Emerging Economies, 2022
Objective: In the dramatic world, humour has been part of releasing tension for readers. Hatta Azad Khan is a renowned Malaysian dramatist who always addresses social issues in his writings.
Abdul Walid Ali, Saad Omar, Muhammad Faisal Bin Ahmad   +2 more
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Liquid racism and the Danish Prophet Muhammad cartoons [PDF]

, 2010
This is the author's accepted manuscript. The final published article is available from the link below. Copyright @ 2010 The Author.This article examines reactions to the October 2005 publication of the Prophet Muhammad cartoons in the Danish newspaper ...
Alibhai-Brown, Y., Ammitzbøll, P., Anon., Bauman, Z., Bauman, Z., Berger, A.A., Billig, M., Bleich, E., Butler, K., Carens, J.H., Dyke, G., Fisk, R., Freud, S., Gatrell, V., Grice, A., Griffin, D., Hansen, R., Hansen, R., Hari, J., Hari, J., Hasan, K., Lawson, D., Malik, N., Modood, T., Modood, T., Olsen, J.M., Raif, S., Rose, F., Sardar, Z., Shamsad, R., Simon Weaver, Stott, A., Verkaik, R., Weaver, S., Westergaard, K., Whittam Smith, A.   +35 more
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Le Salon international de l’humour de Piracicaba, un laboratoire culturel innovant ancré dans la contestation politique sous le régime militaire brésilien

IdeAs, 2021
Born in 1974 during the repressive period of the Brazilian military regime, the Humor Exhibition of Piracicaba, which became "International" in 1976, was created on the initiative of local cartoonists and municipal representatives, in the small town ...
Mélanie Toulhoat
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Black humour in Ukrainian war memes

The European Journal of Humour Research
This article investigates the cognitive foundations of Ukrainian war-related black humour memes through their conceptual modeling. Black humour is reinterpreted as a meme genre through the lens of fundamental humour theories.
Ievgeniia Bondarenko
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Humour scandals in the Finnish political public sphere in 1990–2020

The European Journal of Humour Research
Humour is a part of contemporary mediated political struggles. At times, humour itself becomes politicised, turning into public controversies or humour scandals.
Juha Herkman, Joonas Koivukoski
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‘Laugh a defiance, Laugh in hope’: Suffrage Comedy and Humour as Political Protest

Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2022
In the context of the women’s movement at the turn of the 20th century and the campaign for the vote, the Actresses’ Franchise League produced and performed a body of plays known as « suffrage drama », many of which were comedies.
Eleanor Stewart
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