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Humour and Politics: A Discursive Approach to Humour
, 2021 Power has always been a desirable target for humour. It seems politicians are easy to make fun of. In fact, humour and politics are interrelated from times immemorial and they are a favoured field of research in the Human and Social Sciences. The aim of this study is to show the potential of a discursive-enunciative category, the point of view (POV ...
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“I get it, but it’s just not funny”: Why humour fails, after all is said and done
The European Journal of Humour Research, 2018 Failed humour can be explained by communicative gaps, at either the semantic or pragmatic levels, but sometimes, after all is ‘said and done’, people resist humour for purely discursive reasons.
Adrian Hale
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Are Jordanians (still) 'humourless'?
The European Journal of Humour Research, 2023 This article discusses the stereotypical misrepresentations held about Jordanians being ‘humourless,’ and how had the 1989 political opening affected the production and reception of humour in the country.
Yousef Barahmeh
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Poola poliitiline huumor [PDF]
Mäetagused, 2013 This article is a survey of the most important communicative phenomena in the contemporary Polish political humour. It is also an attempt to describe political humour from a theoretical point of view and to compare it with political jokes from a period ...
Marcin Poprawa
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The writerly reporter: Saki as correspondent for The Outlook
The European Journal of Humour Research, 2014 In February of 1914 Saki began to write Potted Parliament (‘potted’ being the English expression for ‘in a nutshell’ or ‘for dummies’) for The Outlook, a London weekly. His commentary contains much satire.
Lorene M. Birden
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Editorial: Dis laf fit kill person - An overview of Nigerian humour
The European Journal of Humour Research, 2018 In Nigeria, in relation to the aforesaid functions, everyday citizens and professional humourists use humour to express their expectations from and disappointments in the socio-political leadership of the country.
Ibukun Filani
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‘Woman Suffrage Precipice’: The Gender Politics of Laughter in Elizabeth Robins’s The Convert (1907)
Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2022 An actress turned playwright and political militant, Elizabeth Robins was aware of the political uses of laughter. Her novel The Convert, in which laughter is explicitly linked to performance and action, is stimulating material for an investigation of ...
Nathalie Saudo-Welby
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Towards a typology of humorous wartime tweets
The European Journal of Humour Research, 2023 The idea of this research was born on 26 May 2022. The following day, we saw Elon Musk’s tweet from 26 May 2022: ‘Politics is a sadness generator’. We accepted the challenge to refute the statement and to prove that there is much space for humour in the ...
Olesia Yehorova +2 more
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The Life and Times of Ceaușescu Jokes
Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory, 2019 Political humour, as an indispensable part of popular culture, played a complex role under communism in Romania. It was a catalyst of the general discontent towards the catastrophic effects of Ceaușescu’s megalomaniac dictatorship, a forbidden, dangerous
Gabriela Glăvan
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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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