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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]

open access: yesMedičnì 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.
doaj   +3 more sources

Language of COVID-19: a Verbal & Visual Analysis of Humor Prevalent in Caricature Genre of Media Discourse

open access: yesUniversity of Chitral Journal of Linguistics and Literature, 2022
Languages continue to develop, modify, and reshape during unprecedented situations (Paton, 2020). Language fluidity and its flexible nature tend to be weapons in the hands of linguists and artists to cope with unprecedented difficult times.
Sadia Mumtaz   +2 more
doaj   +3 more sources

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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BLACK HUMOUR IN A FAIRY TALE: VERBALIZATION OF THE CONCEPT DEATH

open access: yesScientific 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.
openaire   +1 more source

A reading of contemporary short stories dealing with food and humour [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Playing with food could be funny! Reading about animated sandwiches could be hilarious. Writing about the adventures of vegetables, chocolate and toothpicks could be creative.
Gavriilidis, Sofia, Kalaitzi, Christina
core  

Influence of Molecular Genetic Classes on Behavior in Prader‐Willi Syndrome

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A wide range of behavioral phenotypes has been described in PWS patients including autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The prevalence of behavioral disorders was studied in 292 participants over 3 years with genetically confirmed PWS (N = 164 females and N = 128 males) with deletion (N = 182) and mUPD (maternal uniparental disomy) (N = 99).
Ranim Mahmoud   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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
doaj  

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
doaj   +1 more source

De-Anglicising humour studies

open access: yes, 2020
This Commentary has two main aims. The first is to argue that systematic approaches to “humour” have been hampered and skewed by terminological Anglocentrism, i.e. by reliance on terms and categories which are English-specific, such as ‘amusing’, ‘joking’
Goddard, Cliff
core   +1 more source

The Diagnosis That Arrived Decades Late: Living Without and Then With Myhre Syndrome

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Medical Genetics Part C: Seminars in Medical Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Myhre syndrome (MIM #139210) is a rare multisystem disorder first described in 1981, characterized by short stature, neurodevelopmental delay, joint contractures, and cardiopulmonary complications. Its molecular basis, recurrent pathogenic variants in SMAD4, was not discovered until 2011. This narrative is based on a review of medical records,
Abdallah F. Elias
wiley   +1 more source

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