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Pure and Simple: Music as a Personal and Comedic Resource in Car Share [PDF]
, 2017 This chapter examines Peter Kay’s Car Share (BBC1, 2015) to consider the ways it represents pop music as both a resource which the characters draw on to make sense of their lives and, by virtue of this, a fertile site for comedy.
Mills, Brett, Rimmer, Mark
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Short and sweet? Structuring Humor and Morality in American Sitcoms
Angles, 2015 Seinfeld (NBC, 1989-1998), perhaps the most popular sitcom of recent years, famously insisted it was a show about nothing, about the pettiest details of everyday life.
Shannon Wells-Lassagne
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Humorous and Non-Humorous Effects in Sitcoms: a Relevance-Theoretic Perspective
Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Linguistica, 2020 Humorous utterances can be divided into those which are created for their own sake (that is, to amuse others), dubbed autotelic humour, and those which communicate truthful and/or untruthful meanings germane to the ongoing conversation, dubbed speaker ...
Magdalena Wieczorek
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NREM Sleep Oscillations Are Associated With Anxiety and Negative Affect in Young Adults
Journal of Sleep Research, Volume 34, Issue 5, October 2025.ABSTRACT Non‐rapid eye movement sleep (NREM) oscillations are critical for cognitive and affective processing. While several studies link anxiety and depression symptoms to sleep quality, a critical gap remains in elucidating the role of NREM physiology in sleep‐dependent processing of affect and anxiety symptoms. The goals of the present study were to
Hazal Arpaci +5 more
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Mile vs tranzicija: sitcom, milecom i više od toga [PDF]
, 2022 Maja Marsenić
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Social and Personality Psychology Compass, Volume 19, Issue 10, October 2025.ABSTRACT Although many believe that discrimination and racism against Arabs and Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) communities started after the events of 9/11, prejudice and discrimination toward this group was documented as early as the 1900s.
Germine H. Awad +6 more
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Demanding stories: television coverage of sustainability, climate change and material demand [PDF]
, 2017 This paper explores the past, present and future role of broadcasting, above all via the medium of television, in shaping how societies talk, think about and act on climate change and sustainability issues.
Allwood JA +17 more
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La sitcom: nueva forma de comicidad, consumo, divertimento e Identidad en la postmodernidad
Cuadernos de Lingüística Hispánica, 2016 Este artículo tiene como objetivo principal reflexionar sobre la noción de lo cómico en la sociedad postmoderna y su representación en el escenario televisivo: la Sitcom; con el fin de hacer un acercamiento comprensivo a las dinámicas y relaciones ...
DORIS ADRIANA GALINDO CASTELBLANCO +1 more
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Transforming the traditional sitcom: Abed in Community
TV Series, 2012 At first glance, NBC’s freshman comedy Community appears to be the perfect example of a high-concept sitcom: the main character Jeff Winger is a lawyer who has been disbarred for fake diplomas, and who therefore has to go back to school at a community ...
Shannon Wells-Lassagne
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Conservation Science and Practice, Volume 7, Issue 9, September 2025.Greenspace ballot initiatives (GBIs) are vital for conservation funding, and their success depends on effective voter outreach. This study examines how communication strategies, specifically celebrity endorsements and temporal framing, influence voter attitudes, revealing that celebrity endorsements are particularly persuasive among less‐engaged voters,
Suiwen (Sharon) Zou +2 more
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