From the Editors of the European Journal of Humour Research
Dorota Brzozowska,Władysław Chłopicki,Villy Tsakona
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Introduction
Delia Chiaro,Giselinde Kuipers
Abstract Introduction to a special issue in memory of Professor Christie Davies References Davies C. (1990). Ethnic Humour around the World. A Comparative Analysis, Bloomington:
“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
“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
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
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
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”
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
“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
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
Unmasking Christie
Jessica Milner Davis
Abstract Unmasking Christie References Adams, P. & Newell, P. (eds.) (1996). The Penguin Book of More Australian Jokes. Ringwood VIC: Penguin Books Australia. Chapman, A.J.
The progress of Australian humour in Britain
John Christopher Davies
Abstract There has long been a close link between both the comedy and, by implication, the sense of humour of British and Australians. Such distinctively
