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Political correctness and political humour in Soviet Estonia and beyond
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Humour and Politics in Africa:
2023Humour and Politics in Africa provides an innovative analysis of the diversity and complexity of humour – and its political significance – across Africa. This political significance, the book argues, goes beyond the framing of humour-as-resistance. As the book explores, humour is used for – and does – a vast array of political work that may be viewed ...
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Chapter 1. Humour in politics and the politics of humour
2011In this chapter, the authors offer a working definition of political humour and summarise its main aspects as discussed in the relevant literature: the genres where political humour surfaces or dominates; the reasons why political criticism is so often encoded in humorous terms; and the (side-)effects of political humour.
Villy Tsakona, Diana Elena Popa
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Humour and Politics in Africa: An Overview
2023This chapter provides a comprehensive background of the both the history of and contemporary literature on humour and politics in Africa. Africa has rich humorous traditions that are frequently overlooked but which underpin many contemporary forms of humour.
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2022
Employing a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary humanities and social science approach, this chapter discusses how different forms of humour have been mobilised to negotiate, subvert, or sustain various paradigms of structural oppression, highlighting the shift between the sacred and the profane in humour as a genre of Resistance Art.
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Employing a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary humanities and social science approach, this chapter discusses how different forms of humour have been mobilised to negotiate, subvert, or sustain various paradigms of structural oppression, highlighting the shift between the sacred and the profane in humour as a genre of Resistance Art.
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2011
If politics is a serious matter and humour a funny one, this volume investigates how and why the boundaries between the two are blurred: politics can be represented in a humorous manner and humour can have a serious intent. Political humour conveys criticism against the political status quo and/or recycles and reinforces dominant views on politics. The
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If politics is a serious matter and humour a funny one, this volume investigates how and why the boundaries between the two are blurred: politics can be represented in a humorous manner and humour can have a serious intent. Political humour conveys criticism against the political status quo and/or recycles and reinforces dominant views on politics. The
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Political Humour in the Blogosphere
Textus, 2008A multimodal phenomenon combining multiple sign systems, net-mediated humour is structurally different from offline humour, as it takes place within the semiotic coordinates of a digital environment. No wonder, then, that an increasingly popular web genre such as the political blog should have been quick to exploit these new humorous text types and ...
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Conversational Humour and (Im)politeness
2019Conversational Humour and (Im)politeness is the first systematic study that offers a socio-pragmatic perspective on humorous practices such as teasing, mockery and taking the piss and their relation to (im)politeness. Analysing data from corpora, reality television and interviews in Australian and British cultural contexts, this book contributes to ...
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