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Nordlit: Tidsskrift i litteratur og kultur, 2023 Starting from my former empirical studies but supplemented with fresh fictional “data” from Lars von Trier’s latest TV series Riget Exodus (2022), I first describe how Danes use humour in very characteristic ways, also in cross-cultural professional ...
Lita Lundquist
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Spontaneous humour and Malaysia’s democratic breakthrough in 2018
The European Journal of Humour Research, 2021 The 2018 Malaysian general election was the first democratic change of government in the nation’s modern history. The victory of the Pakatan Harapan (Alliance of Hope – PH) coalition surprised several observers within and outside the country, especially ...
Shanon Shah
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The competitive functions of humours in young women’s gossip
Feminismo/s, 2014 Studies on gender and humour in spontaneous conversation have noted that women’s humorous practices in these contexts are characterized by their cooperative features and by their functionality primarily oriented to the reinforcement of solidarity and/or ...
Virginia Acuña Ferreira
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Flipping situations and ending plots: An approach to coherence in humour
Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación, 2023 Recent linguistic research on humour and conversation has been successfully achieved on pragmatic and sociolinguistic grounds. My contribution should try to follow this (bi)methodological trail, deepening on the study of conversation and its ...
Amadeu Viana
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Approaching conversational humour culturally: A survey of the emerging area of investigation
Language and Communication, 2017 This introductory article gives a state-of-the-art picture of the research on conversational humour in cultural contexts. The most important categories of conversational humour are briefly introduced, followed by an overview of the existing research on ...
Valeria Sinkeviciute, Marta Dynel
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Epistemics and conversational humour in intercultural first conversations
Pragmatics and Beyond New Series, 2023Amir Sheikhan, Michael Haugh
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The spontaneous co-creation of comedy: Humour in improvised theatrical fiction
Journal of Pragmatics, 2021Daniela Landert
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Conceptualizing conversational humour as (im)politeness: The case of film talk
Journal of Politeness Research, 2016Marta Dynel
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