Humor and Social Media: A Linguistic Analysis of Some Egyptian Coronavirus Memes [PDF]
The paper aims at investigating verbal humor in some selected Egyptian web memes about Corona Virus. It also aims at identifying the different strategies and techniques used by memes' producers to create humor.
Menna Mohammed Salama El-Masry
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Pandemic as Reflected in English and Russian [PDF]
The article deals with verbal and non-verbal means of reflecting the present situation of pandemic in humour from linguo-cultural and intercultural point of view.
Marina A. Kulinich
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The Mote in Thine Eye': An Analysis of the Bible in Cartoon [PDF]
The targeting of religion in editorial cartoons has become a source of controversy. Particular tensions emerged following the publication of the Danish cartoons, a set of cartoons representing the Prophet Mohammed, published in Jyllands-Posten in ...
Huw Thomas
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Humor during Crisis; an Examination over Humor related to covid-19 disease based on General Theory of Verbal Humor [PDF]
Rudaki is one of the poets whose poetry collection has not been found and the The present paper has been written to examine the jokes about the outbreak of Covid-19 which have been circulated in the social media.
Vahid Tavoli +3 more
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Contrastive Study of Script Opposition and Target in Satires of Golestan and Masnavi (with Emphasis on the General Theory of Verbal Satire) [PDF]
Satire is one of the main features of both Golestan and Masnavi. The research hypothesis is that the script opposition of idea affects the target and worldview affects script opposition of the idea and target.
Seyyed Naser Jaberi Ardakani +1 more
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Flirting with the Israeli Prime Minister, humorously
This article examines a specific type of supportive, make-believe, playful humour called here flirting humour, which serves to create a positioning of symmetry and intimacy, while posing a mitigated threat to the face of the addresser and addressee.
Galia Hirsch, Pnina Shukrun-Nagar
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DECONSTRUCTION OF LEADING CHARACTERS IN ZOOTOPIA MOVIE SCRIPT
This study entitledDeconstruction of Leading Characters in ZootopiaMovie Script. This study discussed about Deconstruction of characters which aimed to deconstruct the opposition of major and minor characters in the movie script Zootopia, and also ...
Aina Sa'adah Batubara +2 more
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Pau-Pau Rikadonna I Daramatasia (PRID) is a very popular story and has an important position in the lives of Bugis people in South Sulawesi as well as in other region. In the script form, the story has three versions: Bone, Barru, and Pangkep.
Bermawy Munthe, Mustari Mustari, Maharsi
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Humour in online comments regarding Montenegro’s accession to NATO
The empirical analysis in this paper deals with establishing humour examples based on script opposition patterns in online comments regarding Montenegro’s accession to NATO.
Milena Dževerdanovic-Pejović
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The Policies of Balai Pustaka as the Dutch Colonial Government’s Publishing Agency in 1917-1942
The Ethical Policy (1901) generated many intellectuals who were able to express their ideas and opinion of nationalism and opposition through written media. The colonial government felt restless and needed a sensor agency for the intellectual’s works. In
Sulistya Putri +2 more
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