artykuły
On going too far
Abstract In the vernacular ideology of humour there are definite ideas about where the limits of joke acceptability lie. In practice, many joke performances seem
When the quip hits the fan: What cartoon complaints reveal about changes in societal attitudes to race and ethnicity
Abstract A study of editorial cartoons published over the last 40 years, that have been the subject of complaint to the New Zealand Press Council
Political ridicule and humour under socialism
Abstract Socialism produces distinct forms of humorous ridicule that are relatively rare in capitalist, bourgeois democracies. These forms are arranged in a hierarchy that reflects
Humour as resistance: Disaster humour in post-9/11 United States
Abstract This paper studies the evolution of political humour in media in the United States after 9/11. Previous research has identified patterns in the evolution
Television humour and preferred meanings in the Catalan identity debate
Abstract This article analyses a sports-related satirical-parody television series as a generator of preferred meanings that may be associated with an ideological context of a
A statistical analysis of satirical Amazon.com product reviews
Abstract A corpus of 750 product reviews extracted from Amazon.com was analyzed for specific lexical, grammatical, and semantic features to identify differences between satirical and
Humour and enjoyment reducers in cinema and theatre comedy
Abstract In this research, I am trying to define a new concept which I shall call Enjoyment Reducer, referring to verbal or visual content, incorporated
Book review: Ruiz Gurillo, L. & Alvarado Ortega, M. B. (eds). (2013). Irony and Humor: From Pragmatics to Discourse. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. vi+270 pp.
Abstract Book review: Ruiz Gurillo, L. & Alvarado Ortega, M. B. (eds). (2013). Irony and Humor: From Pragmatics to Discourse. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. vi+270 pp.
Book review: Schmidt, S. (2014). Seriously Funny: Mexican Political Jokes as Social Resistance. Translated by Schmidt, A. Tucson, AZ: The University of Arizona Press. 296 pp.
Abstract Book review of Schmidt, S. (2014). Seriously Funny: Mexican Political Jokes as Social Resistance. Translated by Schmidt, A. Tucson, AZ: The University of Arizona Press.
Understanding obscenity and offensive humour: What’s funny?
Abstract Humourisation of the offensive occupies a position of distinctive prominence in our study of how we experience humour. The offensive is often found to
Book review: Weingärtner, T. (2013). Comedy-Boom in Japan: Performative und mediale Rahmung von Humor in der aktuellen Populärkultur. Munich: Iudicium. 430 pp.
Abstract Book review: Weingärtner, T. (2013). Comedy-Boom in Japan: Performative und mediale Rahmung von Humor in der aktuellen Populärkultur [Framing of humour through performance and
“I see,” said Tom icily: Tom Swifties at the beginning of the 21st century
Abstract This paper gives a definition and historical background of the Tom Swifty, addresses different types of punning employed in Tom Swifties, and discusses topics
“Jerome at the BBC”: Subversion, caricature, and humanity in Three Men in a Boat
Abstract Through characters who openly express distress over imagined pains, “Jerome at the BBC” treats BBC’s Three Men in a Boat as a playful critique
Raised eyebrows as gestural triggers in humour: The case of sarcasm and hyper-understanding
Abstract The growing interest in humour within the field of Cognitive Linguistics during the past few years has led to the conclusion that humour exploits