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Maxim of Cooperative Principle Violation by Dodit Mulyanto in Stand-up Comedy Indonesia Season 4

open access: yesJournal of Pragmatics Research, 2019
This study focuses on cooperative principle violation done by Dodit Mulyanto in Stand Up Comedy Indonesia season 4 using Grice’s theory. Grice expressed cooperative principle to suggest that in conversational interaction people work on the assumption ...
Ahmad Ulliyadhi Satria Raharja   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Stand-up Comedy as a Genre of Intimacy [PDF]

open access: yesEthnologies, 2009
Through their use of amplification, stand-up comedians are able to engage an audience at a natural register, employing the modes of everyday, interpersonal, conversational speech, avoiding for the most part the distancing required for most forms of cultural performance.
openaire   +2 more sources

LXRα and PPARα Mediated Hepatic Lipid Metabolic Disruption Induced by the UV Filter EHMC in 2D and 3D HepaRG Cell Models

open access: yesFood Safety and Health, EarlyView.
Dietary UV filter EHMC induces hepatic steatosis in HepaRG cells at noncytotoxic concentrations. Mechanistically, EHMC binds nuclear receptors (LXRα, PPARα), upregulating SREBP‐1 to accelerate fatty acid synthesis. These findings highlight the potential metabolic toxicity of widespread EHMC exposure through food sources.
Shanglin Yang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Comparative Analysis of Stand-up Comedy in Contemporary China and A Collection of Classic Chinese Jokes

open access: yesLingual
Notwithstanding the fact that 幽默 youmo ‘humour’ is a neologism and transliteration coined in the 1920s, the conception has been existing in Chinese civilisation for millennia. The earliest extant treatise on humour in Chinese literature is regarded to be
Aiqing Wang
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Standing-Up to the Politics of Comedy

open access: yes, 2014
This study examines the discourses of the U.S.’s 10 top-earning comedians in 2009 and 2010 through systematic textual analyses. Building from two prior case studies and working toward a communicative worldview for comedy as a pervasive mode of public communication, the results indicate that there are several generic clusters emerging across these acts ...
openaire   +2 more sources

The new meaning of retirement for bridge employees: Situating bridge employment through the lens of the Kaleidoscope Career Model

open access: yesHuman Resource Development Quarterly, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 89-112, Spring 2025.
Abstract Retirees re‐entering the workforce, popularly termed as bridge employment, is a phenomenon that is anticipated to increase in the coming years. Though research establishes that these employees have unique aspirations and work motives (see Mazumdar et al., 2020), primary research on how the retirement transition and bridge employment shape each
Bishakha Mazumdar   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Identity and difference without opposition : constructing and exposing strategic subjectivities for social comic comment [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Includes abstract.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 34-37).This explication is an investigation into comedy as a medium for constructing strategic subjectivities and the potential holds for diffusing experiences of difference in contemporary ...
Price, Alicia MV
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The Africa We Want: A Perspective on the African Code Against Cancer To Be Developed for Sub‐Saharan Africa

open access: yesInternational Journal of Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA) faces a unique cancer burden, characterized by a disproportionately high mortality‐to‐incidence ratio, a large share of infection‐related cancers, and distinct environmental exposures. Implementation of national policies on primary prevention is limited, and public literacy regarding cancer risk and curability remains ...
Anthony Kityo   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Presupposition contributions in stand-up comedy (discourse analysis of Raditya Dika’s stand-up comedy on YouTube)

open access: yesJournal of Applied Studies in Language, 2018
This study aims to find out how a comic establishes strategy through presupposition in contributing to building a humour effect in stand-up comedy. A qualitative descriptive method was employed in this research to get full and depth conception. 15 stand-up comedy videos hosted by Raditya Dika on YouTube are used in this research. All data obtained then
openaire   +4 more sources

An Analysis of Rhetorical Strategies in the Gendered Performances of Nigerian Male Stand-up Comedians

open access: yesTraduction et Langues, 2017
Gender relations are enacted in the day-to-day lived experiences of men and women. Mundane practices such as talks and jokes may not only reflect the prevailing gender relations in society, but may also offer opportunities to contest them.
Chris Lekan Olawale
doaj  

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