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MULTIMODAL HUMOUR ON OVERPOPULATION IN JOEL PETT’S ENVIRONMENTAL CARTOONS
Mokslo Taikomieji Tyrimai Lietuvos Kolegijose, 2021 Cartoonists’ skill to reveal important problems, to influence and construct public opinion has become a great power. This study examines humour as a social instrument and focuses on the expression of humour, or irony in particular, in famous American ...
Živilė Nemickienė +2 more
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Hybrid humour as cultural translation: The example of Beur humour
The European Journal of Humour Research, 2019 Humour is a phenomenon that is pervasive in the human heritage in all its different ethnic and cultural diversity; however, humorous effects might exceed the mere pleasure or laughter to serve as a strategy of survival.
Merouan Bendi
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Anatomy of social media humour in Ghana
The European Journal of Humour ResearchThis study examines the use of humour on Ghanaian social media through a multimodal lens, focusing on how content creators use different modes such as verbal and multimodal (images, memes, and cartoons) modes to engage the audience. Drawing on Kress and
Andani Kholinar +1 more
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The European Journal of Humour Research, 2015 Four experiments with 48 participants were conducted to study humour perception and memorization. A computerized method (FVW) from Vienna Test System was used (Kessler, Pietrzyk & Puhr, 2003), as well as humour associations, the recall of three funny ...
Stanislava Stoyanova
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BLACK HUMOUR IN A FAIRY TALE: VERBALIZATION OF THE CONCEPT DEATH
Scientific Journal of National Pedagogical Dragomanov University. Series 9. Current Trends in Language Development, 2023 The paper deals with the study of the influence of black humour elements on R. Dahl’s story “Pig”, qualified by us as a fairy tale genre. The purpose of the research is to describe the verbalization of the author’s individual concept DEATH as a key component for revealing the black-humorous tonality of the story.
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Explaining verbal humour to the audience : the case of Plautine neologisms [PDF]
Graeco-Latina Brunensia, 2020 Plautus frequently uses new word formations to increase the comicality of his plays. Such facetious neologisms must have been understood by the audience, otherwise the jokes in the comedies would not have made any sense. However, there are a few passages in which the author explains his newly-coined lexemes through the words of the characters in the ...
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Neuropsychological assessment of the morphofunctional organization of humour perception processes
Неврология, нейропсихиатрия, психосоматикаA review of studies analysing the process of humour perception under normal conditions and its disturbances in brain damage is presented. The perception of humour is considered to be a multicomponent mental activity that occurs through a series of ...
M. A. Kantova +2 more
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Humorous phenomena in dramatic discourse
The European Journal of Humour Research, 2013 The paramount goal of this paper is to tease out a number of universal communicative phenomena which carry humour appreciated by the recipient of a drama series, based on data culled from a famous medical drama series, “House”.
Marta Dynel
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El gènere i l’humor en interaccions didàctiques d’alumnes de secundària
Feminismo/s, 2014 This article explores the form and function of humour as a strategy for dealing with the construction of intersubjective space from the articulation of three axes or focuses: the use of humour by teenagers, gender concerns and the issues around research ...
Meritxell Maza
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Hemispheric asymmetry of the brain as a psycho-physiological basis of individual and typological features of the formation of a sense of humour [PDF]
Medičnì Perspektivi, 2016 The article describes the psycho-physiological peculiarities of hemispheric asymmetry of the brain as the basis of individual and typological features of the formation of a sense of humour.
Shportun O.N.
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