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La leadership politica in Italia alla luce della tradizione comica nazionale
Political leadership in Italy in the light of the national comical traditionThis essay deals with humour and satire in politics. The issue of humour is contextualized within a wider cultural phenomenon called ‘show civilisation’ or ‘schermopolis’, i.e ...
Maria Pia Pozzato
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L’écriture en crise pour un pays en crise. "Alger, journal intense" de Mustapha Benfodil
Depuis son roman Archéologie du chaos (amoureux) paru en 2007, Mustapha Benfodil s’applique à mettre en œuvre le programme énoncé par l’un de ses personnages : DECONSTRUIRE L’ORDRE NARRATIF NATIONAL.
Sylvie Brodziak
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Definitions of the humorous in Chris Rock and Russell Peters fan blogs: A discussion of the problem of incongruity [PDF]
There is an old and unsolved problem in the philosophy of humour that examines the conditions under which some incongruities are deemed funny and some are not.
Weaver, S
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Does Humour Influence Perceptions of the Ethicality of Female-Disparaging Advertising? [PDF]
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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Terror i tvillingtårnene – dystopi og ironi? 9/11 i Darlah og En terrorist i senga
Terror in the Twin Towers – dystopia and irony? 9/11 in Darlah and En terrorist i senga. Through globalization of our media society, children as well as adults are endlessly exposed to information and images from all over the world.
Kjersti Lersbryggen Mørk
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Trevor Noah and the contingent politics of racial joking
This article takes up the transnational comedy career of Trevor Noah as a way to explore how the political work of racial comedy can manifest, circulate and indeed communicate differently across different racial-political contexts.
Jennalee Donian, Nicholas Holm
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A Preliminary Investigation into the Use of Humor in Sport Psychology Practice [PDF]
‘Creative efforts’, such as the use of humor,have been found to be beneficial to the nurse-patient, teacher-student , and psychologist-patient alliance. Potentially humoruse might benefit the working alliance in applied sport psychology, yet to datethere
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Forms of humour in the surrealist poetry of Nikos Engonopulos and Andreas Embirikos
The present article deals with humour in the surrealist works of Nikos Engonopulos and Andreas Embirikos. The first part provides a methodological framework based on classical views of authors such as H. Bergson, L. Pirandello, S. Freud, and A.
Nicole Votavová Sumelidisová
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Emotional responses to world inequality [PDF]
Drawing on discussions with Kenyan, Mexican and British teachers, this paper reports on emotional responses to international socio-economic inequality. Emotional regimes are explored to identify what ‘appropriate’ responses to inequality are in a variety
Barford, A
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This article analyses a New Year’s revue from 1929 by Helsinki-born Jac Weinstein (1883–1976) and the image of the Jewish merchant. Many stereotypes concerning ethnicity and gender are at play in the revue and the line between humour, Jewish self ...
Simo Muir
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