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Journal articles on the topic "Australian wit and humor"

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Rodríguez-Salas, Gerardo. "Communitarian Theory and Andalusian Imagery in Carmel Bird’s Fiction. An Interview." IRIS, no. 35 (June 30, 2014): 123–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.35562/iris.1803.

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Australian writer Carmel Bird writes fiction that, while being highly individual and varied, settles within the Australian traditions of both Peter Carey’s fabulism and Thea Astley’s humane wit. As William H. Wilde, Joy Hooton and Barry Andrews state (1994), Bird is a “witty writer with a wide but always highly original tonal range”, who “raises what is often potentially sinister or horrific to something approaching comedy. Disease, deaths and violence are staples in her fictional world, which has similarities with Barbara Hanrahan’s Gothic sensuality and feminist irony, although Bird’s deadpan humour is a distinctive, determining element”. The present interview focuses on an unexplored area in Bird—Andalusia, Spain—which, paradoxically, becomes the backcloth of some of her fiction—like the recent Child of the Twilight (2010)—and a prolific source of inspiration. The following pages explore Bird’s Andalusian/Spanish visions as regards nationalistic, religious, and cultural constructions. To that end, the theoretical communitarian discussion of figures like Ernest Gellner, Ferdinand Tönnies, Benedict Anderson, Jean-Luc Nancy and Maurice Blanchot will prove useful in the structural framework of this interview. Bird herself clarifies that her contribution is not offered from an academic perspective; she speaks about herself as a writer largely unaffected by academic bias. However, communitarian theorisation will prove useful in clarifying her depiction of nationalistic and religious values, while, in the process, she sheds some light on the slippery concept of “Australian writing” and the construction of Spanish cultural values from the perspective of an Australian writer. This interview offers a fresh rendition marked by the humorous, spontaneous and truthful tone that characterises Bird’s fiction.

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Brugère, Fabienne. "Wit and/or Humor." Sententiae 22, no. 01 (June 16, 2010): 211–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.22240/sent22.01.211.

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Ellington, John. "Wit and Humor in Bible Translation." Bible Translator 42, no. 3 (July 1991): 301–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/026009359104200301.

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Long, Debra L., and Arthur C. Graesser. "Wit and humor in discourse processing." Discourse Processes 11, no. 1 (January 1988): 35–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01638538809544690.

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Land, Norman E. "THE WIT AND HUMOR OF MAESTRO ZOANE." Source: Notes in the History of Art 27, no. 4 (July 2008): 16–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/sou.27.4.23207903.

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Witkowski, Jan A. "The liveliest effusion of wit and humor." Trends in Biochemical Sciences 26, no. 12 (December 2001): 747–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0968-0004(01)01936-3.

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Kahn, William A. "To Wit: Humor and Applied Behavioral Science." Journal of Applied Behavioral Science 26, no. 3 (August 1990): 329–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021886390263006.

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Meltzer, Gary. "Dark Wit and Black Humor in Seneca's Thyestes." Transactions of the American Philological Association (1974-) 118 (1988): 309. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/284174.

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Dionigi, Alberto, Mirko Duradoni, and Laura Vagnoli. "Humor and Attachment: Exploring the Relationships between Insecure Attachment and the Comic Styles." European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and Education 13, no. 1 (January 12, 2023): 161–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ejihpe13010012.

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In this study, the relationship between individuals’ insecure attachment styles and eight comic styles was explored. A sample of 636 Italian adults (206 males, 428 females, 2 non-binary), aged 18 to 81 years (M = 41.44; DS = 13.44) completed an online survey to investigate the relationship between insecure attachment styles, namely anxious and avoidant, and the eight comic styles, clustered into lighter style (fun, benevolent humor, wit, nonsense) and darker style (irony, satire, sarcasm, cynicism). The findings of this research indicated the lighter and darker styles were differently related to the anxious and avoidant styles. The anxious attachment was negatively related to both benevolent humor and wit and positively with irony. The avoidant style was positively associated with nonsense and sarcasm, while no other relationship emerged. This research indicated that attachment orientations are associated with individual differences in the detailed differentiation of humor-related styles.

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Schuman, Boaz Faraday. "Scholastic Humor." History of Philosophy Quarterly 39, no. 2 (April 1, 2022): 113–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/21521026.39.2.02.

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Abstract Scholastic philosophers can be quite funny. What's more, they have good reason to be: Aristotle himself lists ready wit (eutrapelia) among the virtues, as a mean between excessive humor and its defect. Here, I assess Scholastic discussions of humor in theory, before turning to examples of it in practice. The last and finest of these is a joke, hitherto unacknowledged, which Aquinas makes in his famous Five Ways. Along the way, we'll see (i) that the history of philosophy is not so hostile to humor as is commonly supposed; and (ii) that the competing theories of humor like the Incongruity Theory and the Release Theory are not altogether incompatible. We'll also see at least one example of an apparent attempt by modern translators to excise humor from a medieval text. Our considerations will open a window into what oral discussion and debate at medieval universities was actually like, and how we should understand the relationship between the texts we have now and the exchanges that actually occurred then.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Australian wit and humor"

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Foster, John E. "A critical, social and stylistic study of Australian children's comics /." Title page, contents and introduction only, 1989. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phf755.pdf.

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Fairclough, Natalie R. "Burnout in academics : the role of humour and optimism as stress buffers." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 1998. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/995.

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The relationship between university lecturers' perceived stress, use of humour to cope with stress, optimism, pessimism, and burnout was investigated. Participants included 180 lecturers from a range of Perth universities and disciplines. Questionnaire packages were delivered to the participants at their universities and were later returned to the researcher by mail. A principle components analysis was first performed on the Life Orientation Test-Revised, a self-report instrument designed to measure optimism, and demonstrated support for a two-dimensional model of optimism and pessimism. A hierarchical multiple regression analysis was subsequently conducted to determine the ability of perceived stress, humour, optimism, and pessimism, followed by the interactions between perceived stress and humour, optimism, and pessimism, and then gender to predict lecturers' burnout. The results revealed that after perceived stress had been accounted for, humour and optimism had a significant main effect on burnout. Pessimism and gender were not significant unique predictors of burnout. The interactions between perceived stress humour, optimism, and pessimism did not predict burnout. The findings highlight the role of humour and optimism in predicting burnout, and the implications for burnout prevention strategies.

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Bednarz, Terri. "Humor-neutics analyzing humor and humor functions in the Synoptic Gospels /." Fort Worth, TX : [Texas Christian University], 2009. http://etd.tcu.edu/etdfiles/available/etd-04212009-141303/unrestricted/Bednarz.pdf.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University, 2009.
Title from dissertation title page (viewed May 5, 2009). Includes abstract. "Dissertation presented to the Faculty of the Brite Divinity School in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Biblical Interpretation." Includes bibliographical references.

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Reff, Robert Charles. "Developing the humor styles questionnaire-revised : a review of the current humor literature and a revised measure." Online access for everyone, 2006. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Dissertations/Summer2006/r%5Freff%5F051706.pdf.

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Valencia, Cabrera Marlon. "Learning about humor teaching second language humor in ESL /." Online access for everyone, 2008. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Thesis/Spring2008/m_valencia_042808.pdf.

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Bippus, Amy Marie. "Humor in comforting interactions /." Digital version accessible at:, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.

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Butzberger, Michael William. "Humor as a communication tool in preaching." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2003. http://www.tren.com.

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Berry, Karlene. "The use of humor in counseling." Online version, 2004. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2004/2004berryk.pdf.

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Fields, Lisa G. "Effect of humor programs on recuperation time and medication usage." Virtual Press, 1996. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1014846.

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The purpose of this study was to determine if using a humor program affected hospital oncology and osteology patients' recuperation times or use of pain medications. A quasi-experimental, retrospective study was designed. Thirty pairs of patients were identified from existing records at a hospital that has a comprehensive humor program. One patient in each pair had used the humor program, the other had not. Chi-square analysis on the demographic variables of race, marital status, smoking status and sex showed no significant association between humor usage and all variables except sex. No correlation was found between patient age and humor program use. Independent t-tests (a = 0.05) were performed on the duration of stay for treatment and control populations, for the oncology and the osteology groups. No statistically significant differences were found in either population. Two independent t-tests (a = 0.05) were performed to analyze pain medication usage. The first examined the differences in the mean percent of p.r.n. pain medications used. Neither population showed statistically significant differences. The second t-tests examined coded scores for changes in pain medication orders. Again, no statistically significant differences were found in either population.
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Engel, Scott G. "Humor in therapy : an empirical examination." Virtual Press, 1998. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1210538.

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In the psychological literature little has been written about the use of humor in therapy. Especially lacking is empirical data regarding the topic. In the current study I investigated the relationship between a personality characteristic, sense of humor, and the amount of humor used by a therapist in a mock therapy session. A 2 x 3 factorial design was implemented with participant's sense of humor and the amount of humor used by the therapist being the independent variables. I hypothesized that a moderate amount of humor would result in more positive ratings of the therapist than either the low or high humor conditions. I also hypothesized that participants who had a greater sense of humor would rate the therapist more positively. Results revealed a partial confirmation of the hypotheses. The greatest amount of humor used by the therapist resulted in decreased ratings of the therapist for a measure of appropriateness of humor and a measure of warmth and empathy. Also, the therapist who used the most humor was rated significantly less rigid and dull than the therapist who used no humor. Suggestions forfuture research in the area are given.
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Books on the topic "Australian wit and humor"

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Fahey, Warren. Classic bush yarns: Australian outback humor, tall yarns, and bullshit. Sydney, Australia: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2001.

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Hardy, Frank J. Retreat Australia fair and other great Australian legends. Milsons Point, NSW: Hutchinson Australia, 1990.

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Frances, De Groen, and Kirkpatrick Peter, eds. Serious frolic: Essays on Australian humour. St Lucia, Qld: University of Queensland Press, 2009.

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Dave, Warner, ed. Great Australian bites. South Freemantle, W.A: Freemantle Arts Centre Press, 1997.

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Haynes, Jim. The great Australian book of limericks. Crows Nest, N.S.W: Allen & Unwin, 2010.

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Watts, Merrick. Merrick and Rosso: The book. Sydney, NSW: ABC Books for the Australian Broadcasting Corp., 2000.

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Charles, Firth, ed. The chaser annual. Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2001.

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Horacek, Judy. Lost in space. St Leonards, NSW, Australia: Allen & Unwin, 1998.

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FitzSimons, Peter. Little theories of life. Crows Nest, N.S.W: Allen & Unwin, 2007.

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Kenwrick, Taylor. A very handy man. Sydney, N.S.W: A.K.A. Publishing, 2009.

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Book chapters on the topic "Australian wit and humor"

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Wijewardena, Nilupama, Ramanie Samaratunge, and Charmine Härtel. "Exploring Humor in Australian Work Settings." In Managing with Humor, 65–94. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3636-2_4.

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Graban, Tarez Samra. "Beyond “Wit and Persuasion”: Rhetoric, composition, and humor studies." In The Primer of Humor Research, 399–448. Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110198492.399.

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Robins, Wayne. "The “Sly Wit” of Chuck Berry." In The Routledge Companion to Popular Music and Humor, 159–68. New York; London: Routledge, 2019.: Routledge, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781351266642-23.

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Assimakopoulos, Stavros, and Anna Piata. "Chapter 5. Liquid racism, metaphor and the visual modality." In Exploring the Ambivalence of Liquid Racism, 118–42. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/pbns.341.05ass.

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The extant literature on liquid racism has focused primarily on the rhetorical impact of humor. In this Chapter, we shift the focus to the role of metaphor as a means of conceptualization. Drawing on ideas and tools from the fields of critical discourse studies, conceptual metaphor theory and multimodal communication, we discuss how metaphorical framing can correspondingly constitute a vehicle for liquid racism, by zooming in on Greek political cartoons on the refugee ‘crisis’ in the Mediterranean Sea. To wit, we argue that, in this setting, the use of visual metaphor to refer to migrants can give rise to ambivalent evaluative imports that allow for racist undertones to enter the picture.

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Crawford, Robert. "Chunder Goes Forth: Humor, Advertising, and the Australian Nation in the Bulletin during World War I." In Humor, Entertainment, and Popular Culture during World War I, 225–43. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137436436_15.

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Anderson, Deb. "Grim Humor and Hope." In Oral History and the Environment, 13—C1.N*. Oxford University PressNew York, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190684969.003.0002.

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Abstract The Mallee Climate Oral History Collection is the product of a four-year research partnership with Museum Victoria. From 2004 to 2007, a series of annual recordings were conducted on the experience of drought with people in wheat-belt communities dotted across the semiarid Mallee. The timing of the project during the millennium drought coincided with a momentous shift in Australian public awareness of climate change, prompting reflexive discussion of the meaning of drought. Interviewees wore several “hats” in life—farming to health work, public service to parenting, local business to education, government science to community advocacy for rural social and environmental sustainability. These stories bear the mark of rural endurance: as the drought wore on, just one interviewee left the Mallee; the rest were determined to continue making a living here, at the inland edge of the Australian cropping zone.

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Bierce, Ambrose. "Wit and Humor." In Poems of Ambrose Bierce, edited by M. E. Grenander. Oxford University Press, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oseo/instance.00244844.

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Gruner, Charles R. "Wit and Humour in Mass Communication." In Humor and Laughter, 287–311. Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203789469-14.

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Scanlan, J. T. "Humor." In The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Johnson, 453—C25.N*. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198794660.013.26.

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Abstract This chapter emphasizes the development and changes in Samuel Johnson’s sense of humor over time, over the course of his entire career. Johnson’s sense of humorhas a history, and it evolved according to the different contexts and experiences of his life, from his early writing for the Gentleman’s Magazine and his early poem London to the substantial works of his middle years, including the Rambler, the Idler, the Dictionary, and his Shakespeare to his lively and bracing great prose work, the Lives of the Poets. During his early career in London, Johnson was drawn, like many writers of the 1730s first starting out, to the satiric spirit of the day, but by the late 1740s and early 1750s, he began to think about satire, comedy, humor, and laughter more carefully and embraced in his writing a more mirthful sense of humor. His later writing, and particularly the Lives of the Poets, show an enabling influence of his needling conversational wit. Like most people’s sense of humor, Johnson’s sense of humor was not static.

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"Physics Envy: Quantitative Approaches to Humor Analysis." In Your Wit Is My Command. The MIT Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/12465.003.0011.

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Conference papers on the topic "Australian wit and humor"

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Matela, Jiří. "Dadžare – japonský kalambúr a jeho výzkumný potenciál." In Orientalia antiqua nova XXI. Západočeská univerzita v Plzni, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.24132/zcu.2021.10392-60-77.

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Dajare – Japanese pun and its research potential The present paper introduces dajare as a Japanese form of puns, i.e. utterances with multiple meanings based on a wordplay. Dajare is chosen as a minimal text with a potential of humorous effect, thus a promising starting point for a research of humor and laughter from perspec tives of cultural anthropology and cognitive linguistics. While the ability to make puns with the use of the Chi nese script in Japan is historically well documented in the form of gisho, the concept of dajare is traced to the realms of the poetic forms of haikai no renga, zappai etc. In modern Japan, dajare is often regarded rather nega tively as “old men’s joke” (oyaji gyagu), mainly due to its separation from the tradition of poetic wit. Nevertheless, several areas of the use of dajare are presented and some principles of its most common form are discussed from the linguistic point of view. The paper ends with two main proposals for further research into Japanese puns: Research in the communicative, textual and discourse functions of dajare (humorous effect as the main goal is questioned) and in the relation of puns and linguistic creativity from the perspective of construction grammar.

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Reports on the topic "Australian wit and humor"

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Prysyazhnyi, Mykhaylo. UNIQUE, BUT UNCOMPLETED PROJECTS (FROM HISTORY OF THE UKRAINIAN EMIGRANT PRESS). Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, March 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.30970/vjo.2021.50.11093.

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In the article investigational three magazines which went out after Second World war in Germany and Austria in the environment of the Ukrainian emigrants, is «Theater» (edition of association of artists of the Ukrainian stage), «Student flag» (a magazine of the Ukrainian academic young people is in Austria), «Young friends» (a plastoviy magazine is for senior children and youth). The thematic structure of magazines, which is inferior the association of different on age, is considered, by vital experience and professional orientation of people in the conditions of the forced emigration, paid regard to graphic registration of magazines, which, without regard to absence of the proper publisher-polydiene bases, marked structuralness and expressiveness. A repertoire of periodicals of Ukrainian migration is in the American, English and French areas of occupation of Germany and Austria after Second world war, which consists of 200 names, strikes the tipologichnoy vseokhopnistyu and testifies to the high intellectual level of the moved persons, desire of yaknaynovishe, to realize the considerable potential in new terms with hope on transference of the purchased experience to Ukraine. On ruins of Europe for two-three years the network of the press, which could be proud of the European state is separately taken, is created. Different was a period of their appearance: from odnogo-dvokh there are to a few hundred numbers, that it is related to intensive migration of Ukrainians to the USA, Canada, countries of South America, Australia. But indisputable is a fact of forming of conceptions of newspapers and magazines, which it follows to study, doslidzhuvati and adjust them to present Ukrainian realities. Here not superfluous will be an example of a few editions on the thematic range of which the names – «Plastun» specify, «Skob», «Mali druzi», «Sonechko», «Yunackiy shliah», «Iyzhak», «Lys Mykyta» (satire, humour), «Literaturna gazeta», «Ukraina і svit», «Ridne slovo», «Hrystyianskyi shliah», «Golos derzhavnyka», «Ukrainskyi samostiynyk», «Gart», «Zmag» (sport), «Litopys politviaznia», «Ukrains’ka shkola», «Torgivlia i promysel», «Gospodars’ko-kooperatyvne zhyttia», «Ukrainskyi gospodar», «Ukrainskyi esperantist», «Radiotehnik», «Politviazen’», «Ukrainskyi selianyn» Considering three riznovektorni magazines «Teatr» (edition of Association Mistciv the Ukrainian Stage), «Studentskyi prapor» (a magazine of the Ukrainian academic young people is in Austria), «Yuni druzi» (a plastoviy magazine is for senior children and youth) assert that maintenance all three magazines directed on creation of different on age and by the professional orientation of national associations for achievement of the unique purpose – cherishing and maintainance of environments of ukrainstva, identity, in the conditions of strange land. Without regard to unfavorable publisher-polydiene possibilities, absence of financial support and proper encouragement, release, followed the intensive necessity of concentration of efforts for achievement of primary purpose – receipt and re-erecting of the Ukrainian State.

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