Political Humor, Sharing, and Remembering: Insights from Neuroimaging. [PDF]
J Commun, 2021 Coronel JC +4 more
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Seriousness, Irony, and Cultural Politics: A Defense of Jorge Portilla [PDF]
, 2013 This essay discusses Jorge Portilla’s phenomenological analysis of values and freedom in his essay, “The Phenomenology of Relajo.” Portilla argues that genuine freedom requires seriousness and sincerity; it requires wholehearted participation in cultural
Gallegos, Francisco
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Cognitive Studies | Études cognitivesThe paper deals with the discursive dimension of two episodes of the Russo–Ukrainian war: The rebellion of Yevgeny Prigoshin (founder of the Wagner private military company) on 23 June 2023, and his death in an airplane crash on 23 August 2023.
Orest Semotiuk
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Seeing Through the Invisible Pink Unicorn [PDF]
, 2010 This paper explores the quasi-religious aspects of the Invisible Pink Unicorn (IPU), an internet based spoof of religion. IPU message boards situate a moral orientation in an ongoing interactional process that sacralizes parody and an idealized form of ...
Abel, Andrew Stuart, Schaefer, Andrew P.
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Differences in use and function of verbal irony between real and fictional discourse: (mis)interpretation and irony blindness [PDF]
, 2014 This paper presents a contrastive approach to the presence of two distinct types of verbal irony in real (natural, unscripted) versus fictional (scripted) discourse, with a special focus on irony blindness, i.e.
Kapogianni, Eleni
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A Blend of Absurdism and Humanism: Defending Kurt Vonnegut’s Place in the Secondary Setting [PDF]
, 2018 This essay argues that Kurt Vonnegut blends a unique humanist stance into his absurdist plots and characters, ultimately urging readers to confront the absurd with a kindness and human decency his protagonists often find rare.
Johnson, Krisandra R
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“Why the Anomaly that is Super Bowl Marketing is a Justifiable Investment” [PDF]
, 2018 By now, we have well established that the Super Bowl is the holy grail of marketing, the championship for the battle of the brands, and the ultimate showcase of creative prowess which determines bragging rights. This American phenomenon is the exception,
Brothers, Anthony Cole
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Las puertas del campo : censura y coacción informativa durante la transición, reflejadas en el humor gráfico de la prensa diaria (1974-1977) [PDF]
, 2009 Este artículo estudia el reflejo que el humor gráfico ofreció de la coercitiva legislación sobre medios de comunicación vigente a lo largo de la transición española, a través de las viñetas publicadas por cinco diarios nacionales entre febrero de 1974 ...
Segado Boj, Francisco
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Humor in Ukrainian political discourse
Culture of the Word, 2019 The research focuses on the problem of humor in Ukrainian political discourse, which is interpreted as a manifestation of human activity. The peculiarities of the combination of political and game discourses in Ukrainian political communication were clarified, which resulted in the active use of humorous components in the speeches of politicians ...
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[Review of] James A. Clifton. The Prairie People: Continuity and Change in Potawatomi Indian Culture, 1665-1965 [PDF]
, 1979 Until very recently, Indian history existed in the doldrums of guilt and ethnocentric misunderstanding. Since Indians were preeminently the great American obstacle to the inexorable process of United States expansion and progress, they have been ...
Morrison, Kenneth M.
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