Abstract This study presents a lexical semantic analysis of the French verb blaguer and related expressions. This verb belongs to a suite of “French humour practices”,
Abstract One of the challenges faced by researchers working on conversational humour across languages is that the particular scientific metalanguage we use to talk about
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Abstract In order to understand how children learn to recognize and use humor in their own cultural environment, we have chosen to study their production
Abstract This small-scale study on verbal humour takes place within a larger project entitled “From perception to oral production”, which aims to identify the links
Abstract In deaf people who use sign languages, humour expression has been looked at extensively, examining the preferred means and topics in deaf humour (Cancio-Bello
Abstract Editorial References Béal, C. & Mullan, K. (2013). ‘Issues in conversational humour from a cross-cultural perspective: Comparing French and Australian corpora’, in Peeters, B.,
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Abstract This is a review of the book Zhengzhi yu zhongguo tese youmo, by Xueliang Ding. References Guanzhong, L. (2014). The Three Kingdoms, Volume
Abstract In the present book, the authors deal not only with traditional, well-known proverbs, but mostly with their modified versions, anti-proverbs. Anti-proverbs permeate all aspects
Abstract Intertextuality plays a great role in the production and comprehension of various forms of humorous expressions, such as parodies and memes. The latter often
Abstract Humour is often exploited in advertising to enhance the positive image of a brand or corporate company, as well as to promote products or
Abstract The paper discusses spoof news as a parody of the traditional genre of news and the role of intertextual references in the creation of
Abstract This article provides the first published collection and analysis of Soviet meta-jokes, accompanied by a review of meta-joke research, and a discussion of the
Abstract Humourists often resort to previous texts to create their jokes, thus establishing intertextual links between them. Consequently, the processing of such jokes presupposes specific
Abstract The aim of this paper is to analyse 12 political cartoons published by Steve Bell in the left-wing oriented newspaper The Guardian to show
Abstract In humour research, intertextuality has been extensively studied with the aim of understanding how humorous texts are constructed on the basis of previous texts.
Book review References Dann, G. (1996). The Language of Tourism. A Sociolinguistic Perspective. Oxford: CAB International. Foster Wallace, D. (1996). ‘Shipping Out: On the (nearly
Abstract The book “It’s only a joke, comrade! Humour, trust and everyday life under Stalin (1928-1941)” is a historiographic study of humour created and used
Book review References Culpeper, J. (1996). ‘Towards an anatomy of impoliteness’. Journal of Pragmatics 25 (3), pp. 349-367. Grice, H. Paul. (1975). ‘Logic and conversation’,
Abstract Signature analysis is a statistical technique introduced in the 1940s in order to identify groups of statistical measures to identify aircraft from radar reflections.
