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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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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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The Good Humour Club or Doctors’ Club and Sterne’s Political Romance
The Shandean, 2020This essay argues that Sterne’s satire in A Political Romance pokes fun not just at the disagreement between lawyer Francis Topham and Dean of York John Fountayne, as is well known by Sterne scholars, but also at the role of a convivial club in that ...
Helen Williams
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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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From Humour to Impact: Internet Memes in Political Discourse through (de)legitimization
Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative CultureInternet memes, as artifacts of digital culture, quickly spread political ideas and critiques, transcending traditional media. Despite their prevalence, understanding how memes use semiotic elements and (de)legitimization strategies to shape political ...
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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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'Strike while the Humour is Hot: Metaphor and Humour in Political Discourse
2010The 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
2005Humour 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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The Language of Humour and Its Transmutation in Indian Political Cartoons
, 2023Vinod Balakrishnan, Vishaka Venkat
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