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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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#ForgiveUsForWeHaveSinned: Conceptual integration theory and political Internet humour

The European Journal of Humour Research, 2017
The aim of the paper is to uncover the extent to which different forms of political Internet humour can criticise current political affairs in a developing democracy such as Bosnia and Herzegovina. Specifically, applying a cognitive linguistic theory of
Nihada Delibegovic Dzanic, Sanja Berberovic   +1 more
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Can ethnic humour appreciation be influenced by political reasons? A comparative study of the Basque Country and Calalonia

The European Journal of Humour Research, 2013
The aim of this paper is to compare the appreciation of humor that a sample of citizens in Spain has expressed about two different types of ethnic humor produced by two successful television programs from two autonomous communities in Spain: the Basque ...
Carmelo Moreno
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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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Humour scandals in the Finnish political public sphere in 1990–2020

The European Journal of Humour Research
Humour is a part of contemporary mediated political struggles. At times, humour itself becomes politicised, turning into public controversies or humour scandals.
Juha Herkman, Joonas Koivukoski
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Laughing right

The European Journal of Humour Research
This article examines how Jordanian political humour has been strategically employed in social media spaces since the 2011 Arab uprisings. It explores how right-wing ideologies have given rise to Jordanian political humour, particularly of a populist ...
Yousef Barahmeh
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The Belarus-Poland migrant crisis

The European Journal of Humour Research
The migrant crisis on the Polish-Belarusian and Lithuanian-Belarusian borders has resulted in border crossing restrictions and the construction of walls separating Poland and Lithuania from Belarus.
Anastasiya Fiadotava, Władysław Chłopicki   +1 more
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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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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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Data‐Driven Materials Science for Energy‐Sustainable Applications

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Data‐driven approaches powered by artificial intelligence are transforming materials discovery for energy sustainability. This review examines how auto‐generated high‐quality materials databases and domain‐specific language models accelerate research in photovoltaics, thermoelectrics, batteries and magnetic materials. Applications involve extraction of
Jacqueline M. Cole
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