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Abstract The empirical study presented in this article aims to determine some of the linguistic and cultural elements that can influence the production process and
Abstract In early 20th century, Sir William Osler supported the use of humour as an efficacious tool in medical education, which continues to be used
Abstract Since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic in late 2019, fear and panic dominated the content of online news. Simultaneously, there was a prevalence
Abstract The COVID-19 outbreak was declared a pandemic (a global health emergency) following its ravaging spread and increasing death toll that led to the unprecedented
Abstract The first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic has been described as stressful. People make light of stressful situations in different ways. Ghanaians are known
Abstract This paper reports on an exploratory study examining joke identification, appreciation and comprehension by Spanish intermediate ESL learners. The study is based on a
Abstract The development of creativity becomes a significant issue in the era of automation and information technologies. Linguistic creativity can increase the inventiveness and resourcefulness
Abstract Stand-up comedy, as a humorous performance, is a quintessential narrative that chronicles sociological realities of human endeavours. Its humour, as a new subgenre of
Abstract This paper focuses on the role of humour as a persuasive tool of tourism destinations’ communication and as a means of creating the destination’s
Abstract This paper provides a legislative and jurisprudential comparative of European and U.S. case Law on humour. Whilst the Europe-U.S. comparison, in the ambit of
Abstract Arguments over the future of school playtime continue back and forth. Opinions range from the interval period envisaged as a waste of teaching and
Abstract The article compares disgust as defined by the Parasite Avoidance Theory and humour explained through the Benign Violation Theory in order to analyse whether
Abstract The research note deals with the analysis of lexico-semantic means used in the creation of the pun, such as homonymy, polysemy, and also morphological
Abstract Despite Shakespeare’s rejection of comic, racist stereotypes in Othello, minstrel shows offered racist blackface caricatures of slaves and others of African descent that filtered
Abstract This article marks the first decade of the European Journal of Humour Research. We wish to thank all our Authors and Editorial Team
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