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Political Humour in the Blogosphere

Textus, 2008
A 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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Studies in Political Humour

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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'Strike while the Humour is Hot: Metaphor and Humour in Political Discourse

2010
The main target of this paper is to explore the relationship between humour and metaphor in order to attain a better understanding of the cognitive and affective components of jokes. Cognitive theory is outlined (G. Lakoff, M. Turner, G.Fauconnier, K. Feyaerts, G. Brône, T. Veale, etc.) and used in humour interpretation.
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Humour and the Conduct of Politics

2005
Humour has been intertwined with politics since ancient times, when the pharoahs in Egypt and emperors in China first appointed court jesters. In ancient Athens, democracy was born alongside comedy in the fifth century. Aristophanes’s Lγsistrata was the first in a long line of anti-war comedies.
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Hizbullah’s Humour:

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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Conversational Humour and (Im)politeness

2019
Conversational 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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A Thing of Humour? Exploring Gender and Hostile Humour in Alberta Political Cartoons

2018
This thesis addresses the intersections existing between gender, violence and political humour in Alberta political cartoons. I ask the following question: do cartoonists more frequently use hostile humour to represent women premiers, and, if so, what do these representations communicate about gender and political leadership and Alberta political ...
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No more jokes: Comic complexity, Adult Swim and a political aesthetic model of humour

European Journal of Cultural Studies, 2022
Nicholas Holm
exaly  

Performance of Humour in Political Cartoons

2023
Vinod Balakrishnan, Vishaka Venkat
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Caveat emptor: boycott through digital humour on the wave of the 2019 Hong Kong protests

Information, Communication and Society, 2021
Marta Dynel, Fabio Indìo Massimo Poppi
exaly