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Les Enfants risibles: comic portrayals of childhood in French fiction
Abstract Les Enfants risibles: comic portrayals of childhood in French fiction References Anglade, J. (1962). Hervé Bazin. Paris: Gallimard. Anon. (1967). Georges Duhamel 1884-1966. Paris:
A series of experiments on humour perception and memorization – a case of humour associations and remembering humorous stories
Abstract Four experiments with 48 participants were conducted to study humour perception and memorization. A computerized method (FVW) from Vienna Test System was used (Kessler,
Jokes optimise social norms, laughter synchronises social attitudes: an evolutionary hypothesis on the origins of humour
Abstract A prominent humour theory suggests that most jokes will violate a subjective moral principle. This paper explores the ramifications of Thomas Veatch’s social violations
Book review: Winter-Froemel, Esme and Zirker Angelika (eds.) (2015), Enjeux du jeu de mots. Perspectives linguistiques et littéraires [Stakes of wordplay. Linguistic and literary perspectives]. De Gruyter: Berlin/Boston.
Abstract Book review: Winter-Froemel, Esme and Zirker Angelika (eds.) (2015), Enjeux du jeu de mots. Perspectives linguistiques et littéraires [Stakes of wordplay. Linguistic and literary
The power of metonymy in humour: stretching contiguous relations across different layers of meaning
Abstract This paper is grounded in Cognitive Linguistics (CL), which sees metonymy as a conceptual phenomenon, in which one conceptual entity (the source) provides mental
The humorous language of street dissent: A discourse analysis of the graffiti of the Gezi Park protests
Abstract Owing to its critical and creative potential, humour has often been used as one of the preferred means of resistance in social and political
Translating humour in audiovisual media
Abstract The article investigates humour translation in audiovisual media concentrating on two modes of audiovisual translation: dubbing and subtitling. The corpus consists of humorous scenes
The Hungarian joke and its environs
Abstract Hungarian humour went through significant changes in the 20th century. Though the urban middle-class way of living and culture had developed by the early
An orchard invisible: Hidden seeds of wisdom in the English and Croatian proverbial apples
Abstract In the paper we analyse humorous modified proverbs in light of the theory of conceptual integration. Unlike traditional proverbs, which teach us something and
Towards the automatic detection and identification of English puns
Abstract Lexical polysemy, a fundamental characteristic of all human languages, has long been regarded as a major challenge to machine translation, human–computer interaction, and other
The relationship between gelotophobia, shame, and humiliation
Abstract Gelotophobia (fear of being laughed at), when it comes to the social context, is usually investigated in the context of bullying. Other studies of
The processing of humour by individuals suffering from schizophrenia
Abstract Humour is an important component of social cognition. The last few years of cognitive research of schizophrenia provided a considerable amount of empirical evidence
Book review: Bouissac, Paul (2015). The Semiotics of Clowns and Clowning: Rituals of Transgression and the Theory of Laughter. Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics. London: Bloomsbury, 218 pp.
Abstract Book review: Bouissac, Paul (2015). The Semiotics of Clowns and Clowning: Rituals of Transgression and the Theory of Laughter. Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics. London: