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The intralingual subtitling of interdialectal wordplay in the Arabic-speaking world

The European Journal of Humour Research
The present study aims to contribute to the research field of the intralingual subtitling of dialects. It attempts to bring to the fore the unique way in which humorous interdialectal communication, in the ST, notably wordplay, is rendered into one ...
Hajar Ben Bouazza, Hicham Boughaba
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Humor as a representation of community identity

The European Journal of Humour Research
The presence of humour in every human activity makes it an interesting object of research to explore from the perspective of culture, language, function, and discourse mechanism. The aim of this research is discovering how verbal humour can represent the
Ronny Yudhi Septa Priana, Siti Karlinah, Dadang Rahmat Hidayat, Dian Wardiana Sjuchro   +3 more
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Verbal humour in Pataclaun: the phenomenon of paronomasy

Lengua y Sociedad, 2018
El artículo contiene una recopilación de algunos diálogos presentados en el programa Pataclaun (1997-1999) que permiten la visualización y explicación del fenómeno de la paronomasia, definido por López (2005) como un juego del lenguaje que involucra a fenómenos lingüísticos como la polisemia, paronimia, homonimia y resegmentación.
Mendoza Villanueva, Mariana, Paredes Castillo, Lucero   +1 more
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On the use of scale distortion for visual humour

The European Journal of Humour Research
In contrast to verbal humour, visual humour remains a relatively underdeveloped area of research. In this exploratory study, we investigate whether scale incongruity – i.e., discrepancy between the expected and actual experience of the size of an object 
Clara Swaboda, Tristan Miller
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The trickster and the prison house: The Bakhtinian dimension of ‘the carnivalesque’ in Breyten Breytenbach’s True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist

Literator, 1995
This paper undertakes an analysis of Breytenbach’s prison book in terms of the autobiographer's psychological response to his experience of incarceration.
I. Dimitriu
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Humour discourse in ESL classrooms

The European Journal of Humour Research
This critical literature review explores the functions, pedagogical applications, and implications of humour discourse in English as a Second Language (ESL) classrooms, drawing on ten empirical studies published between 2021 and 2025.
Ali Sorayyaei Azar, Huang Ying
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Humorous TV ads and the 3WD: Evidence for generalizability of humour appreciation across media?

The European Journal of Humour Research, 2017
Individuals differ in their appreciation of jokes and cartoons with respect to the structure of the humorous material (e.g., whether the jokes and cartoons are can be categorised in terms of incongruity-resolution or in terms of nonsense), as well as ...
Jennifer Hofmann, Willibald Friedrich Ruch   +1 more
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The semiotics and metapragmatics of humour in contemporary theatre

The European Journal of Humour Research
This study explores the semiotic boundaries of humour in theatre by examining Lena Kitsopoulou’s postmodern free adaptation of Aristophanes’ comedy Wasps.
Vicky Manteli
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Strategies of Verbal Humour in Menander’s Dyskolos: From Linguistics to Dramaturgy

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Is the Unserious Serious? National Traits behind a Comic Mask

Styles of Communication, 2010
The central focus of attention in the present research paper is constituted by humourous discourse as a valid source of ethnicity markers. What follows is that the analysis at hand is grounded in the ethnolinguistic findings on language, predominantly in
Dorota Buszynska
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