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The European Journal of Humour Research, 2022 Successfully joining a new workplace community is demanding, especially when this involves crossing national boundaries in addition to team boundaries.
Meredith Marra
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The Divisive Power of Humour: Comedy, Taste and Symbolic Boundaries [PDF]
, 2013 Using British and Dutch interview data, this article demonstrates how people from different social classes draw strong symbolic boundaries on the basis of comedy taste.
Bellevance G +10 more
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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 +2 more
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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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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 +2 more
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Black humour in Ukrainian war memes
The European Journal of Humour ResearchThis 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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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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Does Humour Influence Perceptions of the Ethicality of Female-Disparaging Advertising? [PDF]
, 2018 This article responds to calls for further research on ethical issues in advertising. The study examines whether advertising strategies which use female-disparaging themes are perceived as ethical, and what effect this has on ad and brand attitudes.
Balabanis, G., Grougiou, V., Manika, D.
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Humour scandals in the Finnish political public sphere in 1990–2020
The European Journal of Humour ResearchHumour 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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