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The Reflection of Traumatic Memories in Estonian Autobiographical Comics

open access: yesГалактика медиа: журнал медиа исследований, 2022
Humour has been celebrated as a way to cope with trauma – through disaster jokes, wartime humour and death-related humour in general, the joke-tellers alleviate the painful experiences and memories of these. But there is another side to this coin. Humour
Liisi Laineste, Maria V. Semykolennykh
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A series of experiments on humour perception and memorization – a case of humour associations and remembering humorous stories

open access: yesThe European Journal of Humour Research, 2021
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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Les connecteurs discursifs comme moyen de produire un effet humoristique dans « La vie devant soi » de Romain Gary et sa traduction en polonais – étude traductologique

open access: yesStudia Romanica Posnaniensia, 2013
The subject of the paper is linguistic humour examined from the point of view of its functioning in intralinguistic literary communication (monolingual) as well as from a much broader point of view which comprises the problem of crosslinguistic and ...
Magdalena Szeflińska-Baran
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Cognitive and Affective Aspects of Verbal Humor: A Visual-World Eye-Tracking Study

open access: yesFrontiers in Communication, 2022
Many theories of verbal humour postulate that the funniness of jokes is caused by an incongruency in the punchline whose resolution yields a feeling of mirth.
Laura Israel   +2 more
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Wordplay-based humor

open access: yesThe European Journal of Humour Research
Translating humour is comparable to working with poetry: one has to make sacrifices for the sake of equivalence. The task is further complicated when humour is anchored in multiple communication channels, such as the verbal and visual ones.
Kateryna Pilyarchuk
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Online Satirical News as Instances of Liquid Racism: Evidence from Greek [PDF]

open access: yesUniversity of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series, 2023
When discussing the relationship between humour and racism, research usually concentrates on ethnic or racist jokes or on other humorous texts which expressly target migrants or other minorities.
Villy Tsakona
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Analysis of Humour in Tv Series Friends and Its Translation Into Lithuanian

open access: yesDarnioji daugiakalbystė, 2017
The present study examines humour in the tenth season of the TV sitcom Friends and its translation from English into Lithuanian. With humour often believed to be culture-specific, humour translation presents a notorious issue in translation practice, as ...
Korostenskienė Julija   +1 more
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Humour generation and multimodal framing of political actor in the 2015 Nigerian presidential election campaign memes

open access: yesThe European Journal of Humour Research, 2018
Internet memes significantly constitute an outlet for extensive popular political participation in election contexts. They instantiate humour and represent political candidates so as to affect voters’ behaviour.
Akin Tella
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ON THE SIMILARITY AND DISTINGUISHABILITY OF HUMOUR AND FIGURATIVE SPEECH; pp. 14–40 [PDF]

open access: yesTrames, 2009
The article aims to discuss the relationships between (verbal) humour and figurative speech, primarily focusing on the current theoretical dispute between the repre­sentatives of the ‘classical’ linguistic theories of humour (particularly Salvatore ...
Arvo Krikmann
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¿Y dónde está la gracia? El humor en el aula de ELE

open access: yesForo de profesores de Español como Lengua Extranjera, 2017
Resumen: El presente trabajo muestra el fenómeno pragmático del humor como un instrumento idóneo para suscitar la reflexión sobre el uso y funciones del lenguaje en los estudiantes de ELE.
Esther Linares Bernabeu
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