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Using counterfactuals to display facts – the case of satirical humor

ExELL (Explorations in English Language and Linguistics), 2016
Satire has not been given the humorologists’ attention to an extent that would do justice to the amount of humor satire actually holds. Therefore, the intention of this paper is to shed light on satire as humorous discourse, with an emphasis on ...
Maslo Adi
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Contemporary political satirists

The European Journal of Humour Research, 2023
The conventional understanding of the church’s prophetic witness is that it is founded on the prophets portrayed in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. They communicated God’s message in relation to various issues such as religious practices and loyalty to ...
Jacob De Bruyn
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“Never in my life have I heard such a load of absolute nonsense. Wtf.” Political satire on the handling of the COVID-19 crisis

Russian Journal of Linguistics, 2021
This paper problematises political satire in a time when the COVID-19 virus has provoked numerous deaths worldwide, and had dramatic effects on social behaviour, on a scale unknown in western nations since World War II.
Douglas M. Ponton
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Book review. Milner Davis, Jessica (ed.) (2017). Satire and Politics: The Interplay of Heritage and Practice. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

The European Journal of Humour Research, 2019
Satire and Politics: The Interplay of Heritage and Practice, edited by Jessica Milner Davis, explores the multifaceted connections between satire and politics in the Anglosphere, with a particular focus on Australasia.
Jeanne Mathieu-Lessard
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Laugh, but Don’t Seek: A Reassessment of the Gateway Hypothesis

International Journal of Communication, 2021
In this article we revisit the gateway hypothesis, which argues that political satire programs open the door to people using more hard news content.
Michaele D. Myers, Jay D. Hmielowski
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Post-colonialism and Political Satire in South Africa [PDF]

Maǧallaẗ Kulliyyaẗ Al-ādāb Ǧāmiʿaẗ Būrsaʿīd, 2020
South Africa suffered from the British colonial rule after which the Dutch settlers took over the country and exercised an excessive discriminatory regime.
Enas Abdallah Abdelwahab Abdelkader
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The dominant rhetorical elements in the satirical Khorus Lari's Divan [PDF]

متن شناسی ادب فارسی, 2009
Satire which consists in critical innuendos to social viles and evils without direct derision aims at righting the wrongs and improving human frailties.
A.A Bagheri Khalili
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The Liberalization Process of Satire in Postauthoritarian Democracies: Potentials and Limits in Mexico’s Network Television

International Journal of Communication, 2021
The potential of television satire, an important means of denunciation of abuses of power and incompetence by politicians, can be limited in post-authoritarian democracies, where previous arrangements between political elites and media may hinder what ...
Martín Echeverría, Frida V. Rodelo
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Satiric voice of African griot denouncing political demagoguery in Ahmadou Kourouma’s En attendant le vote des animaux sauvages

Akofena, 2023
: The article talks about Ahmadou Kourouma‘s novel entitled  En attendant le vote des bêtes sauvages( 1998) in which Kourouma makes his readers appreciate  that the fruits of effective governance in the post-colonial Africa should be stemmed on political
Stephen Asamane ABIRE & George Souk DABLE
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The Disinformation Dilemma: Moderating Political Satire Under the DSA in Light of the European Convention on Human Rights

European Journal of Risk Regulation
This article examines the growing tension between protections for political satirical expression under article ten of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and emerging European regulatory efforts to combat disinformation through content ...
Therese Enarsson
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