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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
Abstract Clowning is a form of humour. It is an art form that invites play, interaction, and laughter. Clown Care is a programme in hospitals
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
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
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
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
Abstract This review presents Hungarian Humour (Humour and Culture 3) edited by Anna T. Litovkina, Judith Sollosy, Péter Medgyes and Dorota Brzozowska and published by Tertium in Krakow, in 2012.
Abstract By taking a pragma-rhetorical approach, this article characterises the genre of Géza Hofi’s political humour, developed during the communist Kádár era in Hungary, and
