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Social Policy &Administration, Volume 60, Issue 2, Page 286-297, March 2026.ABSTRACT Verbal communication between bureaucrats and citizens crucially determines the dynamics and outcomes of public encounters. However, so far, scholars have not sought to quantitively measure it, which limits our knowledge of the role language plays in shaping interactions between bureaucrats and clients.
Steffen Eckhard, Laurin Friedrich
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Brazilian English Language Teaching Journal, 2021 Devido à importância de se aprender a usar a língua em diversas situações, sitcoms podem ajudar no desenvolvimento da competência pragmática, por sua linguagem contextualizada e semelhante à vida real.
Cezar, Leticia Mello
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Roman comedy and TV fiction: Plautus and sitcom [PDF]
, 2011 Este trabajo ofrece un análisis comparativo de las características propias de la comedia palliata de Plauto (comediógrafo romano del siglo II a.C.) y de los elementos definitorios de la sitcom, género televisivo de gran aceptación popular.
López Gregoris, Rosario +1 more
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Television and the popular: viewing from the British perspective [PDF]
, 2010 The academic discipline of television studies has been constituted by the claim that television is worth studying because it is popular. Yet this claim has also entailed a need to defend the subject against the triviality that is associated with the ...
Bignell, Jonathan
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The sitcom and its textual analysis: evolution of the constructive elements of the format [PDF]
, 2020 Esta investigación tiene como objetivo el estudio de la situation comedy, o comedia de situación, desde finales de 1940 hasta el 2018, describiendo las distintas modalidades que han ido surgiendo en torno a ella, los modos constructivos ...
Martín Sánchez, Darío
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Conversational Humor in Intercultural Communication
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 488-497, February 2026.ABSTRACT This study identifies failed attempts at conversational humor that were either not appreciated or resulted in impoliteness as produced by English as a lingua franca (ELF) users from the Southeast Asian countries of Thailand, Indonesia, and Myanmar who were engaging in intercultural communication.
Zhaoyi Pan
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Między Oryginałem a Przekładem, 2019 Denotation – Humour – Taboo This analysis takes as its subject jokes about Poles that appeared in two US-American sitcoms: The Big Bang Theory (Teoria wielkiego podrywu) and 2 Broke Girls (Dwie spłukane dziewczyny), as well as their official Polish TV ...
Kwiryna Proczkowska
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Same-Sex Marriage and Other Moral Taboos: Cultural Acceptances, Change in American Public Opinion and the Evidence from the Opinion Polls [PDF]
, 2017 This article analyzes the evolution of gay and lesbian rights and same-sex marriage in American public opinion. It describes how Obergefell v. Hodges, state-level decisions and the public opinion trends can be considered as the outcome of a grassroots ...
Morini, Marco
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Social and Personality Psychology Compass, Volume 20, Issue 1, January 2026.ABSTRACT Volitional reconsumption—the deliberate choice to rewatch movies and television episodes already seen—is an increasingly common and economically significant form of contemporary media use enabled by on‐demand and mobile streaming. This article synthesizes research tracing how reconsumption has evolved from broadcast‐era reruns to a ...
Karen E. Shackleford +4 more
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Communication & Society (Formerly Comunicación y Sociedad), 2018 Desde que se produjo la apertura televisiva en los años noventa en España, el desarrollo de géneros, formatos y narrativas alrededor de la producción de ficción ha evolucionado de forma notoria, dando lugar a todo un escenario de formas y narraciones ...
Tatiana Hidalgo-Marí
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