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L’uso strategico della comicità nel discorso politico di Silvio Berlusconi
Studia Romanica Posnaniensia, 2013 The aim of this article is to illustrate some of the mechanisms existing in political discourse which employ emotions and humor as a persuasive means. The study is based on authentic texts produced by Silvio Berlusconi.
Kamila Miłkowska-Samul
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Spanish monuments in caricature, 1860-1920 [PDF]
, 2017 Este texto analiza caricaturas de monumentos publicadas en los periódicos de Madrid y Barcelona. El argumento se centra en los procedimientos de alteración de la imagen.
Reyero, Carlos
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Trumping Tropes with Joke(r)s: The Daily Show “Plays the Race Card” [PDF]
, 2013 The race card is at once a trope and a topic that reductively prefigures racial meaning and performance. As a trope, it frames most racial discourse as a cheat or violation and thus prevents deliberation over material realities of race.
Gilbert, Christopher J. +1 more
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Farmed and Dangerous? A Case Study of Chipotle’s Branded Entertainment Series and Polarized Reactions to its Satirical Depiction of Farming and Agribusiness [PDF]
, 2016 This study follows Chipotle’s innovative strategy of using branded entertainment and satire to enhance its brand image and positive consumer perceptions, while negatively portraying an entire industry.
Anderson, Betsy +2 more
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Laughing at Politicians to Make Justice: The Moral Component of Humor in Appraising Politicians
SAGE Open, 2023 A recent line of research in the field of humor has proposed the existence of two morally based comic styles. One of them, corrective humor (or satire), seeks to ridicule and mock to establish justice.
Andrés Mendiburo-Seguel +3 more
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Conceptual Operations in Multimodal Political Humor [PDF]
نشریه پژوهشهای زبانشناسیThis paper examines how different construals realized in semiotic modes create humor in Persian multimodal political discourse. The paper also elucidates the mechanisms of intersemiotic relations between images and linguistic items in political humor. To
Hadaegh Rezaei
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The Use of Humor as a Pragmatic Device in Indonesian Studium Generale Lectures
Suar Betang, 2020 This paper concerns the use of humor as a pragmatic device in academic discourse. The previous studies in this area has shown that, though unlikely, humor is commonly used in academic discourse—both that of written and spoken nature.
Mohammad Rizqi
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Political Implications of Humor [PDF]
, 2014 This paper discusses some political implications of humor, using as a point of departure the mechanisms that explain the sources of the comical. First, I briefly present the main explanations offered for why we laugh.
Panaet, Dan
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The Diagnosis That Arrived Decades Late: Living Without and Then With Myhre Syndrome
American Journal of Medical Genetics Part C: Seminars in Medical Genetics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Myhre syndrome (MIM #139210) is a rare multisystem disorder first described in 1981, characterized by short stature, neurodevelopmental delay, joint contractures, and cardiopulmonary complications. Its molecular basis, recurrent pathogenic variants in SMAD4, was not discovered until 2011. This narrative is based on a review of medical records,
Abdallah F. Elias
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MediAzioniThis article focuses on the intersection of meme theory, taboo humor, and political discourse, using the “Let’s Go Brandon!” meme and meme cycle as a case study for examining humor in contemporary political discourse and tribalism in the United States ...
Anthony Dion Mitzel
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