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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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'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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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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Performance of Humour in Political Cartoons

2023
Vinod Balakrishnan, Vishaka Venkat
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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  

The Politics of Humour

2011
Kessel, Martina, Merziger, Patrick
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HUMOUR AND IRONY IN MODERN POLITICAL DISCOURSE

2018
Politicaldiscourse has recently been the center of attention of many academics as wellas laymen, which is explained by the strenuous international situation in theworld. According to Critical Discourse Analysis, politicians use politicallanguage as a means of gaining power (Van Dijk, 2009) through differentstrategies, the main of which are persuasion ...
GORNOSTAEVA, Anna, SEMENOVSKAYA, Maria
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Seriously Frivolous: A Narrative Review of the Global Effects of Political Humour on Political Sophistication

Aksh - the Advance Journal, 2022
Sudarshan Yadav
exaly  

Laughing at Revolutionary Times: The Socio-Linguistic and Pragmatic Functions of Jordanian Political Humour After the Arab Spring

Contemporary Levant, 2023
exaly