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Humor and allusions on screen

open access: yesThe European Journal of Humour Research, 2023
Contemporary texts often require a reader or viewer with vast background knowledge. One of the reasons behind this is intertextuality: every text is reliant, to a certain extent, on previous written, filmed, or painted artifacts.
Kateryna Pilyarchuk
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Conceptualising quality early childhood education: Learning from young children in Brazil and South Africa through creative and play‐based methods

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Early childhood has increasingly been acknowledged as a vital time for all children. Inclusive and quality education is part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, with the further specification that all children have access to quality pre‐primary education.
Laura H. V. Wright   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hearing Impairment, Sense of Humour and Communication Strategies

open access: yesScandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 2007
One purpose of this study was to describe sense of humour and communication strategies in a general population of adults who needed hearing aid (HA) fitting or refitting.
Anne-Sofie Helvik   +3 more
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VERBAL HUMOUR CREATED BY NON-OBSERVANCE OF COOPERATIVE PRINCIPLE IN MIRANDA [PDF]

open access: yesLanguage Literacy: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Language Teaching, 2021
Humour is one of essential aspects to communicate with other people comfortably. Most of verbal humours, especially implicit humours generate because people break Grice’s four conversational maxims. Concerning this phenomenon, this research aims to find out types of non-observance of cooperative principle found in verbal humour, which uttered by the ...
Bara Yamalita   +2 more
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Humour in the management of multiple sclerosis: a scoping review

open access: yesNeurologijos seminarai, 2023
Background. Although investigations of the use of humour in the management of people with multiple sclerosis (PwMS) are not numerous, some significant findings have created the need to go deeper into the topic. Main research question.
M. Šeduikienė, V. Matonis
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The processing of humour by individuals suffering from schizophrenia

open access: yesThe European Journal of Humour Research, 2016
Humour is an important component of social cognition. The last few years of cognitive research of schizophrenia provided a considerable amount of empirical evidence about social cognitive impairments in this serious neurodevelopmental disorder.
Eszter Varga   +6 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Humour and the creative powers of language, or when sentiments turn into centiments

open access: yesTaikomoji kalbotyra, 2016
Humour is part of human communication and can serve as an effective means for making contact, finding a way out of an embarrassing situation, or mitigating different political and social tensions.
Inesa Šeškauskienė   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Applications of Cognitive Mechanism of Verbal Humour to the Adjustment of Depressive Mood [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science, 2018
Aims: To apply the findings of neurolinguistic research to the practical technological artifact design, the cognitive mechanism of verbal humour is comprehensively investigated and designed with EEG-based Brain Computer interfaces and Mobile Health, under the guidance of technology design theory, to help with the adjustment of depressive mood ...
Li, Xueyan   +4 more
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An investigation on the types of humour in English Language Teaching among Malaysian lecturers in higher education

open access: yesThe European Journal of Humour Research
Humour in English Language Teaching (ELT) is known to be beneficial for both the educators and students. However, the literature addressing the types of humour used by Malaysian lecturers in higher education on this matter are yet to be explored.
Arif Hakimi Zulazli   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Transcreating humour for (re)dubbing into Arabic

open access: yesThe European Journal of Humour Research, 2022
The transfer of humorous elements in audio-visual texts is a challenging task as verbal expressions heavily rely on witty wordplay and are visually bound.
Rashid Yahiaoui
doaj   +1 more source

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