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Contingent dynamics of political humour
The European Journal of Humour Research, 2021 This article introduces the themes of the special issue. It offers a provisional working conception of “political humour.” It then notes some of the tendencies and challenges for scholarship on political humour, namely, that political humour interacts ...
Sammy Basu, Massih Zekavat
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Pragmeme of Political Humour in Selected Nigerian Political Cartoons
Journal of Language and Education, 2019 Political humour is a recurring element in print media and other genres, touching various areas of Nigerian political discourse. A number of research studies have investigated political humour in contemporary Nigerian political discourse.
Tolulope Oluremi
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Humour scandals in the Finnish political public sphere in 1990–2020
The European Journal of Humour ResearchHumour 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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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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Emperors’ Nicknames and Roman Political Humour
Klio, 2020 SummaryThe article examines unofficial imperial nicknames, sobriquets and appellatives, from Octavian Augustus to Julian the Apostate, in the light of traditions of Roman political humour, and argues that in the political field during the Principate there were two co-existing competing modes of emperors’ naming: along with an official one, politically ...
Alexander V. Makhlaiuk
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Pragmeme of political humour in selected political cartoons in Nigerian newspapers
Journal of Languages, Linguistics and Literary Studies, 2023 Several studies have been conducted regarding the object of humour based research but few attention has been given Cartoon Motivated humour (CMH) in Nigerian discourse. Thus, this study explores a pragmatic study of political humour in selected political cartoons.
O. Adeoti
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Language and Semiotic StudiesNewspaper political cartoons, known for their satirical nature, employ semiotic and linguistic techniques to comment on or criticise political leaders and events humorously.
Osisanwo Ayo, Atoloye Lekan
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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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Political Humour in the Social Network Sites
Studies in Media and Communication, 2018 “Social network sites” first began to be used as new tools of political communication during the 2008 Presidential Election in the United States, and their importance became even more apparent during the Arab Spring. In the course of this, the social network sites became a new and widely discussed channel of communication. In addition to its ability to
A. Sezgin
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Humour as political aesthetics in street protests during the political Ice Age [PDF]
The European Journal of Humour Research, 2020 This article analyses humour as a part of carnival aesthetics in urban social movements. It regards humour’s place in street protests as an aesthetic experience that brings forth an interplay of joy, imagination and freedom. Drawing from social movement theory regarding collective identity and collectivism, aesthetic theory and Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory
Tijen TUNALI
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