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Possibilities and limits of political humour in a hybrid regime
The European Journal of Humour ResearchThis article focuses on the Hungarian Two-Tailed Dog Party (MKKP), which can be defined as a joke party. MKKP uses humour to criticise the corruption flourishing around the governing party Fidesz as well as its simplified and racist form of political ...
Anniina Hyttinen
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Glottodidactica, 2022 The main focus of the article is intercultural jokes as carriers of stereotypes. After discussing the meaning of humour in a foreign language lesson, the concepts of joke and intercultural joke will be explained.
Agnieszka Pawłowska-Balcerska
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FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.TisIBP8, a fungal‐derived hyperactive ice‐binding protein, helps Caenorhabditis elegans survive dehydration. It localizes near cell membranes, reduces cell damage, and helps maintain membrane structure during drying. These results suggest that ice‐binding proteins can protect cells from dehydration stress as well as freezing stress.
Daiki Shimose +9 more
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A reading of contemporary short stories dealing with food and humour [PDF]
, 2019 Playing with food could be funny! Reading about animated sandwiches could be hilarious. Writing about the adventures of vegetables, chocolate and toothpicks could be creative.
Gavriilidis, Sofia, Kalaitzi, Christina
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Synergy: International Journal of Multidisciplinary StudiesElevated academic anxiety is common among students with learning difficulties (LD), which negatively affects their learning outcomes, involvement, and confidence.
Abhishek Panigrahi +2 more
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Intertextuality and failed taboo humour in advertising
The European Journal of Humour Research, 2020 Humour is often exploited in advertising to enhance the positive image of a brand or corporate company, as well as to promote products or services. Advertisers seek the involvement of the audience via covert or overt references that, in their opinion ...
Margherita Dore
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Power and satire in the front-page images of Mariano Rajoy: visual motifs as political humour
The European Journal of Humour Research, 2021 This article explores the use of photography and visual motifs as forms of political humour in contemporary media. By studying the representation of former Prime Minister of Spain Mariano Rajoy in the front pages of three Spanish newspapers (El Mundo, El
Manuel Garin, Daniel Pérez-Pamies
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FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.The neurokinin 1 receptor exists as full‐length (NK1L) and C‐terminally truncated (NK1S) splice variants. We show that NK1S heterodimerizes with NK1L, impairing Gαq coupling and Ca2+ mobilization while enhancing β‐arrestin1 recruitment. NK1S suppresses substance P‐driven gene expression and cell migration, revealing NK1S as an endogenous biased ...
Lan Phuong Nguyen +8 more
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Uneasy Humour as Discovery: Collocation and Empathy as Whewellian Consilience [PDF]
, 2017 In about 350 BC Aristotle committed to writing in one of his major works (Metaphysics) what may well be judged today to be the most enduring linguistic and philosophical paradox of all time.
Louw, William
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πολὺν γέλων: laughter, humour & Greek tragedy [PDF]
, 2023 This DPhil builds upon the relatively limited prior research into laughter and humour in Greek tragedy. Recent and long-standing social theories of laughter are introduced to account for the textual instances of γέλως ‘laughter’ vocabulary in extant ...
Middleton, Alison
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