Christie Davies and substantive reality
Victor Raskin
Abstract The paper offers a substantive view of humor and claims that Davies’ comparison of humor testifies to his interest in substance as well. References
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“Vivi Pericolosamente”: Christie Davies, Italians and dangerous things
Delia Chiaro
Abstract This essay provides a brief overview of English jokes targeting Italians, and sets out to show how internet memes are a progression of traditional
Two lessons from Christie Davies
Salvatore Attardo
Abstract Two important methodological lessons are highlighted, using examples from Christie Davies’ work: the significance of negative evidence and of terminological precision. References Davies, C.
Carabinieri?
Giovannantonio Forabosco
Abstract Research was conducted using a series of light bulb jokes (Forabosco, 1994). The original target of the jokes were the Poles, retargeted into “carabinieri”
The consolations of humor
Elliott Oring
Abstract This examination of the corpus of anecdotes about the Mormon missionary J. Gordon Kimball (1953-1938), is used to point out, first, that there seem
Polish highlander jokes and their targets
Władysław Chłopicki,Dorota Brzozowska
Abstract The aim of the paper is to show the characteristic features of jokes about Polish highlanders and analyse them to identify the comic script
Globalisation and ethnic jokes: A new look on an old tradition in Belarus and Estonia
Liisi Laineste,Anastasiya Fiadotava
Abstract Christie Davies, the renowned humour researcher and a passionate propagator of the comparative method in studying jokes, stressed the necessity of establishing a relationship
“Make love, not war…Get married and do both”: Negative aspects of marriage in anti-proverbs and wellerisms
Anna T. Litovkina
Abstract In the present study I am going to explore negative aspects of marriage and the ways it is viewed and conceptualized in the body
“This is not a political party, this is Facebook!”: Political jokes and political (mis)trust in crisis-ridden Greece
Villy Tsakona
Abstract The present study attempts to combine Raskin’s (1985) and Davies’ (2011) methodological approaches to political jokes to investigate Greek political jokes targeting politicians and
How to do things with jokes: Speech acts in standup comedy
Debra Aarons,Marc Mierowsky
Abstract How to do things with jokes: Speech acts in standup comedy In How to Do Things with Words (1962), the philosopher John Austin claimed
Computational humor and Christie Davies’ basis for joke comparison
Julia Rayz
Abstract While historically computational humor paid very little attention to sociology and mostly took into account subparts of linguistics and some psychology, Christie Davies wrote
True German and phony English laughter: Schmidt-Hidding was still Schmidt
Christian F. Hempelmann
Abstract Schmidt-Hidding’s (b. 1903, d. 1967) lexical field study on the area of Humor und Witz [humor and wit/jokes] (1963b) receives attention in humor research
Humorous TV ads and the 3WD: Evidence for generalizability of humour appreciation across media?
Jennifer Hofmann,Willibald Friedrich Ruch
Abstract 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
Book Review. Ruiz-Gurillo, Leonor (ed.) (2016). Metapragmatics of Humour: Current Research Trends. IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature 14. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 309 pp.
Ksenia M. Shilikhina
Abstract The volume Metapragmatics of Humour: Current Research Trends edited by Leonor Ruiz-Gurillo is a collection of papers aiming at analysing humour as a metapragmatic
