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Betsch, Cornelia, Nora K. Schmid-Küpke, Leonie Otten, and Eckart von Hirschhausen. "Increasing the willingness to participate in organ donation through humorous health communication: (Quasi-) experimental evidence." PLOS ONE 15, no. 11 (November 20, 2020): e0241208. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241208.
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Increasing people’s willingness to donate organs after their death requires effective communication strategies. In two preregistered studies, we assessed whether humorous entertainment education formats on organ donation elicit positive effects on knowledge, fears, attitudes, and behavioral intentions–both immediately after the treatment and four weeks later. We test whether perceived funniness mediates expected effects on attitudes and intentions. Study 1 is a quasi-experiment which uses a live medical comedy show (N = 3,964) as an entertainment education format, which either contained or did not contain information about organ donation. Study 2, a lab experiment, tests humor’s causal effect in a pre-post design with a control group (N = 144) in which the same content was provided in either a humorous or non-humorous way in an audio podcast. Results showed that humorous interventions per se were not more effective than neutral information, but that informing people about organ donation in general increased donation intentions, attitudes, and knowledge. However, humorous interventions were especially effective in reducing fears related to organ donation. The findings are discussed regarding the opportunities for sensitive health communication through entertainment education formats, psychological processes that humor triggers, and humor’s role in health communication formats.
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Yates, Sari. "Humorous Hierarchy." American Journal of Nursing 91, no. 5 (May 1991): 18. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3426564.
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Yates, Sari. "HUMOROUS HIERARCHY." AJN, American Journal of Nursing 91, no. 5 (May 1991): 102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00000446-199105000-00008.
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Attardo, Salvatore, Lucy Pickering, Fofo Lomotey, and Shigehito Menjo. "Multimodality in Conversational Humor." Review of Cognitive Linguistics 11, no. 2 (November 28, 2013): 402–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/rcl.11.2.12att.
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The paper presents the analysis of the humor found in four dyadic conversations. The results of the conversational data match those of previous studies (Pickering et al., 2009): no differences were found in volume or speech-rate between humorous pause units and non-humorous ones. Similarly, pauses were not found to mark humorous turns. However, the result that punch-lines showed lower pitch than non-humorous parts of the text was not replicated: humorous pause units showed no significant differences in pitch from non-humorous ones. Smiling is found to mark humor only in a general sense of “setting the frame” and is not integrated (i.e., co-extensive) with the humor.
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Wieczorek, Magdalena. "Humorous and Non-Humorous Effects in Sitcoms: a Relevance-Theoretic Perspective." ANNALES UNIVERSITATIS PAEDAGOGICAE CRACOVIENSIS. STUDIA LINGUISTICA, no. 15 (December 11, 2020): 312–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.24917/20831765.15.26.
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Humorous utterances can be divided into those which are created for their own sake (that is, to amuse others), dubbed autotelic humour, and those which communicate truthful and/or untruthful meanings germane to the ongoing conversation, dubbed speaker-meaning-telic humour (Dynel 2018). The present paper carries out a qualitative analysis of humorous units in sitcom discourse with a view to delineating a number of propositional meanings, which can be potentially derived by the TV recipients. Special attention is confined to one of the most powerful tools used to explain humour in various humorous manifestations, i.e. weak implicatures (Sperber and Wilson 1986 [1995]; Wilson and Sperber 2004). It is believed here that pragmatic COMPREHENSION mechanisms proposed within Relevance Theory and the notion of weakly communicated assumptions are two sides of the same coin since these account not only for the viewer’s recovery of a humorous interpretation but also of an array of non-humorous propositional meanings. Moreover, the participatory framework has been employed as an additional parameter to show the difference in the reception of a dialogue by fictional characters and the viewers.
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Alkaraki, Sulaiman M., Marlyna Maros, and Norhayati Binti Alias. "Exploring COVID-19 Arabic Humorous Comments in Social Media: Linguistic Analysis of Facebook Comments Using the General Theory of Verbal Humor." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 13, no. 9 (September 1, 2023): 2216–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1309.07.
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This paper investigates the Arabic verbal humorous comments pertaining to COVID-19 on social media. The main objectives of the paper are to identify the distinct categories that are highlighted in those comments disseminated between March and September 2020, on the AlMamlaka and Roya Jordanian Facebook accounts. Additionally, the study examines the claim of Attardo and Raskins's (1991) that the "target" is an optional Knowledge Resource in the General Theory of Verbal Humor. The research design employed in this study is descriptive qualitative. The researchers conducted a thematic analysis to analyze 15 comments, applying the General Theory of Verbal Humor of Attardo and Raskin (1991). The analysis revealed eight emerging categories: governmental, gender, COVID-19, lockdown, behavior, conspiracy, geographical, and facemask jokes. The study found that humorous comments conform to the six Knowledge Resources of the General Theory of Verbal Humor. The most prominent logical mechanism used in the comments was irony and sarcasm, enabling Jordanians to shed light on hidden issues to express their reactions and feelings. The study also found that identifying the target in a humorous comment is crucial in determining the various categories of humorous comments. The research opens avenues for further exploration into the utilization and interpretation of humor in diverse cultural settings, during other natural disasters, and its impact on understanding humorous content.
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Tanauova, Zh. "The Connection of Humorous Stories with Other Genres of Folklore." Iasaýı ýnıversıtetіnіń habarshysy 122, no. 4 (December 30, 2021): 47–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.47526/2021-4/2664-0686.05.
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Until now, Kazakh folk prose has been widely studied cognitively. In general, folklore as a science pays great attention to the genre of prose. However, it would be wrong to say that all genres of Kazakh folklore have been studied and known to the broad masses. Despite the large number of humorous stories, in Kazakh folklore they are considered within other genres of prose. In other words, humorous stories in Kazakh folklore were not the subject of a separate, special study. If we pay attention to the opinions expressed in the writings of famous scientists-researchers in the field of folklore, it is confirmed that humorous stories are a branch of folk literature that is passed down from generation to generation. Despite the fact that humorous stories have been previously studied, it is natural that the latest advances in science raise questions that need to be revised, so we realized the importance of humorous stories in the work of our people and their study is a scientifically relevant topic. Thus, based on previous studies of the genres of folklore, this article examines the connection between humorous stories and other genres.
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Styśko-Kunkowska, Malgorzata A., and Dorota Borecka. "Extraversion and Evaluation of Humorous Advertisements." Psychological Reports 106, no. 1 (February 2010): 44–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.106.1.44-48.
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Evaluation of humorous advertisements is supposed to be influenced by the perceivers' traits. The present study assessed the relation of extraversion with ratings of eight characteristics of humorous and informative advertisements. 75 high school students viewed the advertisements; a small positive correlation was found between scores on Extraversion and overall positive ratings of the humorous advertisement, but the correlation of scores on Extraversion with overall ratings of the informative advertisement was not statistically significant. Higher scores for Extraversion were positively correlated with more favorable reactions toward the humorous advertisement. Overall ratings of the humorous advertisement were also positively correlated with the humorousness and informativeness ratings, indicating that the more the advertisement was perceived as humorous and informative, the more positive was the overall rating. The later ratings were significantly intercorrelated at rs = .50. The role of extraversion was small but significant in the evaluation of humorous advertisements.
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Dixon, Paul N., Donald A. Strano, Welborn Willingham, and Cynthia K. Chandler. "Sense of Humor as a Mediator during Incidental Learning of Humor-Related Material." Psychological Reports 64, no. 3 (June 1989): 851–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1989.64.3.851.
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Variations in attention during intentional or incidental learning were investigated. Materials for intentional learning were presented to 165 college students in conjunction with peripheral cues of humorous and non-humorous materials presented for incidental learning. An hypothesized funneling effect, an attentional shift during learning to the incidental materials, was not found for humorous or non-humorous materials and intentional recall of materials. Subjects with high self-reported sense of humor attended significantly more than subjects with a low sense of humor to incidental humorous materials. Further, subjects with high sense of humor showed significantly greater recall of incidental humorous materials than subjects with low sense of humor. A one-item self-report scale of sense of humor provided behavioral discrimination. The complexity of intentional and incidental learning and the effects of sense of humor on attention to intentional and incidental materials were discussed.
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Sulistiobudi, Rezki Ashriyana. "Effects of Three Humorous Advertising Techniques on Purchase Intention." Psychology & Psychological Research International Journal 8, no. 2 (2023): 1–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.23880/pprij-16000334.
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The number of varied advertisements makes each brand or company need to find suitable ways and methods to package its advertisements to attract consumers. One form of method that can be done is the use of humorous advertisements. The goal of this research is to compare the effects of three humorous advertisement techniques on college students’ purchase intention. This experimental study used between-participants posttest-only design. 108 college students were recruited using the simple random sampling technique and were assigned to three different experimental groups with 36 participants in each group. These three experimental groups were given self-made humorous advertisements with different techniques (arousal-safety, incongruity-resolution, and humorous disparagement). The advertisements were 30-seconds long, for a made-up brand, a strawberry flavored milk drink. Then, they were given a purchase intent scale to measure their purchase intention of the advertised product. The results showed all three experimental groups are at neutral or slightly disagree to have the intention to purchase the advertised product. The hypothesis test was done using One-Way Anova. No significant differences were found between three humorous advertisement techniques. Possible explanations for this result are presented in this study.
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Burmistrova, LARISA V. "PRAGMATIC CHARACTERISTICS OF HUMOROUS APHORISMS IN THE CONTEXT OF LIFE SPACE." HUMANITARIAN RESEARCHES 76, no. 4 (2020): 18–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.21672/1818-4936-2020-76-4-017-022.
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The analysis of pragmatic characteristics of humorous aphorisms in the context of life space. Author's humorous aphorisms of famous writers, poets, historians of the 17th, 18th, 19th centuries and modern humorous aphorisms posted on the Internet; collection of sayings, quotes and aphorisms “Big Book of Wisdom” (edited by Yuri Lavrov). The relevance of the research is determined by the interest in comic universal expressions, network discourse, comical texts. The research results are applicable when compiling a study guide for students or can be used to compile a psychological portrait of the hero of the work. The aim of the present study is to investigate the pragmatic characteristics of humorous aphorisms. It is analyzed that humorous aphorisms of famous writers, poets, historians of the 17th, 18th, 19th centuries and modern humorous aphorisms affect the main aspects of life. Pragmatic characteristics of humorous aphorisms are analyzed. It was found that the humorous aphorisms most vividly reflect the relationship and love between a man and a woman, the intellect of a woman and a man, care of women, the image of a strong, ambitious man, relationships in marriage, feelings (love and happiness), positive attitude (purposefulness, necessity of education), negative attitude (duplicity, laziness, stupidity, slight knowledge, exaggeration of material value), the contrary opinion of an optimist and a pessimist.
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Dynel, Marta, and Fabio I. M. Poppi. "Quid rides?: Targets and referents of RoastMe insults." HUMOR 33, no. 4 (December 24, 2019): 535–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/humor-2019-0070.
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AbstractThis article offers a qualitative and quantitative socio-cultural examination of RoastMe, a peculiar humorous practice deployed on Reddit and reposted on various social media. First, RoastMe is characterized from the emic (user) perspective and conceptualized in the light of humor theory (superiority and incongruity approaches). RoastMe consists in some users’ posting pictures of themselves with a view to being roasted, i. e. pelted with jocular insults, by other online community members. Albeit a type of disparagement humor, RoastMe is an innocuous humorous activity enclosed within a humorous frame; it is a form of affiliative humor based on users’ unbounded creativity. Second, this paper reports the findings of a quantitative study on the predominant types of targets/roastees depending on their (lack of) salient features, as well as the source and nature of the jocularly disparaged referents in roasting comments, i. e. the central features that roasters make harmless fun of most often, relative to the different categories of roastees.Roasting (v.) – To humorously mock or humiliate someone with a well-timed joke, diss or comeback. (…) Hone your roasting skills, meet other roasters, and get yourself roasted! Everybody needs to laugh at themselves! And other people, of course!(https://www.reddit.com/r/RoastMe/)
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Pysarchuk, Oksana, and Lesia Hladun. "HUMOROUS THEATRICAL ACTIVITY AS A MEANS OF SOFT SKILLS FORMATION IN PRESCHOOL AND PRIMARY EDUCATION." Scientific Bulletin of Uzhhorod University. Series: «Pedagogy. Social Work», no. 1(52) (June 1, 2023): 141–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.24144/2524-0609.2023.52.141-147.
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The relevance of the paper dealing with the researching humorous theatrical activities in preschool and primary education is determined by the need to form soft skills in older preschoolers and younger schoolchildren for their successful self-adaptation and self-realization in the future. The purpose of the article lies in substantiating the humorous theatrical activity as a means of forming soft skills in the conditions of preschool and primary education; highlighting aspects of the humorous works selection and methodical recommendations for the effective organization of humorous theatrical action in preschool and primary education establishments. The main methods of scientific research include analysis, pedagogical experience study, observation, generalization and specification. The article proves the effectiveness of humorous theatrical activities for mastering soft skills by students of preschool and primary education, taking into account the pedagogical potential of theatrical play. As a result of the research, aspects of the selection of humorous works are outlined: works with cynicism elements, mockery of macabre themes cannot be studied and acted out; to teach children a wide range of humorous works and their features; to select the works that the children liked the most for the theatrical play; etc. Methodological recommendations have been developed for the effective organization of a humorous theatrical action with the aim of forming soft skills in children of pre-school and primary school: it is necessary to go through all the stages of analyzing a comic work in detail; act out the roles of heroes with the help of theatrical props; you can act out small, humane, humorous skits from your own or school life; the teacher should «try on» the roles of the heroes of the work in order to show the correct facial expressions and gestures; all students of the class or pupils of the group must be involved in the organization and conduct of the event; one student cannot act the same comic, positive or negative role over and over again; observe ethics when using jokes; do not use vulgar humor; do not overload the humorous theatrical action with a large number of dynamic scenes, adhere to the time frame depending on the age characteristics of the children; the action should evoke positive emotions in the audience and participants; it is expedient to combine prose humorous works with musical art, pantomime, choreographic productions, ICT tools use.
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Chandra, Cynthia Felia. "Students’ Strategies in Translating Humorous Text." k@ta kita 11, no. 1 (March 9, 2023): 77–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.9744/katakita.11.1.77-89.
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This study aims to find out the problems that students experienced and strategies that students used in translating humorous text. The writer conducted this study using the theory of translation problems and strategies by Baker (2018). This writer conducted this study using a qualitative approach in which she collected and analyzed the data herself. The findings of this study support Baker’s (2018) statement that some of the problems that may appear during translation process are culture-specific concept, the source language concept is not lexicalized in the target language, the source and target language make different distinction in meaning, the target language lacks a specific term (hyponym), differences in expressive meaning, and differences in frequency and purpose of using specific forms. In addition, Text in the source language is translated in several different strategies namely translation by more general word, translation by more neutral or less expressive word, translation by paraphrase using related words, translation by paraphrase using unrelated words, translation using a loan word or loan word plus explanation, and translation by omission. More studies involving other types of humor and other translation theories are recommended to create variations in this field.
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Govorov, S. A. "Representation of suicide in suicide memes." Psikhologicheskii zhurnal 44, no. 5 (2023): 37. http://dx.doi.org/10.31857/s020595920027723-1.
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The present article provides an overview of current research on suicide memes, their role in the formation of suicidal ideation, as well as their impact on the Internet users’ mental health in general. The model of “cyber suicide contagion” by P. Marsden is applied to assessing memes’ suicidogenic potential. According to this model, it depends on the emotional representation of suicide in a meme. Currently existing suicide memes’ classifications are being reviewed and assessed for their further development and practical application. The following theoretical classification of suicide memes is proposed: non-humorous “pro-suicidal”, non-humorous “anti-suicidal” (such as used in suicide prevention organizations), humorous suicide memes. It is hypothesized that emotional representations of suicide in humorous memes: 1) vary in different memes; 2) are determined by individual perception; 3) both positive and negative aspects of suicide representation need to be present in order for a comical effect to occur. Presumably, in case of humorous suicide memes, a more complex perception of suicide arises, which may simultaneously reflect a presence of suicidal thoughts and a critical attitude towards them. A number of modern studies is analyzed, highlighting positive and negative aspects of suicide memes’ impact on mental health. It is concluded that suicide’s representation in a meme is not the only factor determining its suicidogenic potential.
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Hadžić, Jelena, and Marina Baralić. "Humor in the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic." In medias res 10, no. 19 (September 14, 2021): 3069–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.46640/imr.10.19.8.
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The research is focused on the very beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in Croatia – March 2020. The subject of the research are humorous messages related to the pandemic. By combining quantitative and qualitative methods, this research showed how the interviewed respondents experienced the received humorous content related to the coronavirus and what content characteristics of the humorous messages were detected through the content analysis.
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Kmietowicz, Zosia. "Being “humorous without being disrespectful”." BMJ 336, no. 7650 (April 24, 2008): 910.2–910. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.39559.344896.db.
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Constantinescu, Mihaela-Viorica. "Humorous Approaches to Environmental Issues." Półrocznik Językoznawczy Tertium 8, no. 1 (November 22, 2023): 183–205. http://dx.doi.org/10.7592/tertium.2023.8.1.260.
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This article highlights the civic role of humour as revealed by the analysis of two Romanian online satirical publications (Times New Roman and Cațavencii). The analysis will emphasise different humorous strategies and the crisis narratives deployed by the journalists, in accordance with the profile of the publication. While a ludic frame is preferred for the Times New Roman authors, the authors from Cațavencii use aggressive humour or articles with humorous insertion in order to make accusations against public or private power structures. Satirical publications are not only meant to entertain the public, but also to raise awareness to critical issues such as the environmental aspects (for example, climate change, deforestation, loss of biodiversity, etc.). The analysis will also tackle the appraisal of humorous articles by the public and the risk entailed by the lens of humour on the public’s perception of the topic: illegal logging in Romania.
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Ardi, Havid, Muhd Al Hafizh, Iftahur Rezqi, and Raihana Tuzzikriah. "CAN MACHINE TRANSLATIONS TRANSLATE HUMOROUS TEXTS?" Humanus 21, no. 1 (May 11, 2022): 99. http://dx.doi.org/10.24036/humanus.v21i1.115698.
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Machine translation (MT) have attracted many researchers’attention in various ways. Although the advanced of technology brings development to the result of MT, the quality are still criticized. One of the texts that has great challenges and translation problems is humorous text. Humorous texts that trigger a smile or laugh should have the same effect in another language. Humor uses linguistic, cultural, and universal aspects to create joke or humor. These raise questions how do machines translate humorous texts from English into Indonesian? This article aimed at comparing the translation result and error made by three prominent Machine Translations (Google Translate, Yandex Translate, and Bing Microsoft Translator) in translating humorous texts. This research applied qualitative descriptive method. The data were taken by comparing the translation results produced by 3 online Machine Translations in translating four humorous texts. The findings show that Google Translate produced better translation result. There are some errors related to lexical, syntaxis, semantics, and pragmatics errors in the. The implication of this finding shows that machine translation still need human in post editing to produce similar effect to preserve the humor.
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Su, Yin, and Yue Hou. "Psychological mechanism and cognitive basis of humorous speech." Environment and Social Psychology 9, no. 7 (May 7, 2024): 6212. http://dx.doi.org/10.59429/esp.v9i7.6212.
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To more clearly present the psychological mechanism and cognitive basis of humorous speech, this study measured college students using various scales, discussed the role of humorous coping in resolving their social anxiety and regulating their mental health, and attempted to construct a cognitive symbol working model from three dimensions: theory of innocence, modern semiotics, and conceptual integration theory. We used the proposed model to present the psychological mechanism and cognitive basis of humorous speech. This study found that humor coping is positively correlated with college students’ social anxiety, which is positively correlated with mental health. Affinity humor style and humor coping can positively predict college students’ communication anxiety, but affinity humor style has better predictive power. This research held that relevance is the general principle of communicative cognition and has become a space of conceptual synthesis network. The combination of conceptual fusion and deviation theory with conventional theory can help us better understand verbal humor and reveal its cognitive basis. There is a close relationship between humorous language and human psychological mechanisms. Finally, there is also a clear relationship between different psychological mechanisms and the structure of humorous language.
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Saleh Hussein, Hanan. "Pragmalinguistics in the Spanish Translation of Humorous Discourse." Revista Internacional de Lenguas Extranjeras / International Journal of Foreign Languages, no. 18 (March 9, 2023): 102–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.17345/rile18.3506.
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The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the relevance of the pragmalinguistic factor in the processes of translation of humorous discourse from Arabic into Spanish, specifically in the work of the Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz. The selection of this author’s narrative as the basis of the present work is due to the increase in the number of published translations of his works into other languages, including Spanish, especially in the last two decades. On many occasions, the lack or difficulty of transferring the humorous discourse into Spanish as the target language is observed, due to the lack of involvement of the pragmalinguistic factor in the translation process. In this sense, we will carry out a pragmatic analysis of some fragments of the Egyptian writer’s work, to verify the influence of this factor in the success or failure of the translation process of the humorous discourse. We will also provide answers to some of the difficulties encountered in the translation process, to guarantee the hilarious effect for the reader in the target language. The result of this analysis may help in future translations of the writer’s works, as well as in the translation of humorous discourse in general.
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Kuzma, I. "THE USE OF HUMOROUS MEDIA PRODUCTS AT PRESCHOOL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND PRIMARY SCHOOLS." Zhytomyr Ivan Franko state university journal. Рedagogical sciences, no. 2(109) (October 19, 2022): 284–300. http://dx.doi.org/10.35433/pedagogy.2(109).2022.284-300.
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The article reflects the description of application of humorous media products at preschool educational institutions and primary schools from the perspective of the analysis of psychological and pedagogical literature. Humorous media products are viewed as multifunctional media tools used for the development of motivation, thinking, imagination, creativity and communication skills in children. Besides, they serve for the leisure time organization purposes, national-patriotic and moral education, health saving, pedagogical diagnostics, as well as for preventive purposes, in particular to prevent aggressive behavior. Also, the use of humorous media products is considered to be an effective way to reduce the level of stress and anxiety in children in the challenging conditions of military invasion.
Frequency of application of humorous media products in the interaction with children by the primary school teachers and kindergarten teachers has been diagnosed and analyzed. There have been defined the ways to improve training of future primary school teachers and kindergarten teachers at the institutions of higher education considering the application of humorous media products. They include the following forms: lectures "The problem of humor in the history of pedagogy", "Using humorous media tools for the preschoolers speech development", "Formation of transition skills of primary school students by means analysis of media with humorous potential", "Laughter therapy and health saving of preschool and primary school age children", "Humor therapy in work with children in crisis situations" in the course of study of the disciplines: "Actual problems of preschool education", "Organization of preschoolers game activities", "Introduction to pedagogy”, "Pedagogical technologies at primary school", etc.; methods: interactive, game, project; means: visual (books, periodicals), audial (audio fairy tales, etc.), audiovisual (cartoons).
Ideas worth to be used at preschool educational institutions and primary schools have been identified. They refer formation of children’s ability to distinguish between jokes and mockery; make jokes only in appropriate situation; to reveal the comic and the serious, the fictional and the real in humorous media products.
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Kharchenko, Oleg. "Media communication, cognitive aspects, war-time Ukrainian humorous discourse." Integrated communications 15, no. 1 (2023): 57–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.28925/2524-2644.2023.158.
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The article analyses the functioning of the war-time Ukrainian humorous discourse in media communication in general and the cognitive mechanisms of humor, including the ‘Availability Heuristic’ cognitive pattern in particular.’ The study aims to examine twelve Ukrainian war-time jokes and to reveal the main cognitive patterns and accompanying stylistic figures producing the comic effect. All jokes manifest the application of the ‘Availability heuristic’ cognitive pattern inherent to the war period when old pre-war realities are changed with new war-time realities and explained in a funny way. The study addresses some cognitive and pragmatic aspects of war-time Ukrainian humor, focusing on the role of cognitive patterns in selecting stylistic humor devices while processing the incoming information and shaping the cognitive frameworks of humor perception and creation. The paper reveals the main cognitive patterns, including the ‘Availability Heuristic,’ the ‘Distinct contrast,’ ‘Negativity Thinking,’ the ‘Superiority or Illusionary Superiority,’ the ‘Easel,’ and their humorous actualization through such stylistic figures as paraprosdokian, irony, bathos, double entendre, pun, metaphor and pastiche in its narrow meaning. The researched Ukrainian jokes are interwoven with the situational context of the dramatic events within the temporality of the speedy streaming news of the Russian-Ukrainian war. The paper explores the main pragmatic functions of Ukrainian war-time humorous discourse and makes additional remarks about a number of affirmations from some humor theories. The war-time Ukrainian humorous discourse is set against the background of the current cruel Russian-Ukrainian war realities. It differs from the pre-war Ukrainian humorous discourse stylistically, pragmatically, and cognitively.
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Barry, Herbert. "Characters Named Charles or Charley in Novels by Charles Dickens." Psychological Reports 101, no. 2 (October 2007): 497–500. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.101.2.497-500.
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12 fictional characters named Charles or Charley are contained in eight of the 14 completed novels by Charles Dickens. Most of the author's namesakes have humorous attributes, an unusually close relationship with one or more other characters, and a happy subsequent life. Three stages of the author's adult life are youthful, mature, and after separation from his wife. The fictional namesakes are most humorous in the author's youthful stage and least humorous after separation from his wife. The 12 fictional namesakes of Charles Dickens are compared with the two fictional namesakes of Jane Austen.
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Ashurov, Shahobiddin, and Nigorabonu Suvonova. "Humorous phraseologisms - as a tool offunny assessment of real events (in French material)." BIO Web of Conferences 65 (2023): 10024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/bioconf/20236510024.
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This article discusses humorous phraseological units, which make up a large part of the French phraseological fund, and the level of their study by phraseologists in the field of linguistics, as well as the structural and semantic features of humorous expressions that can be studied from a scientific and practical point of view. At the same time, they analyze the semantic asymmetry of lexical actualizers in the process of humorous expression of real events, particularly the forms of expression of funny proverbs and phrases within the framework of individual specific topics.
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Picard, Delphine, and Nathalie Blanc. "Need for Humor Scale: Validation with French Children." Psychological Reports 112, no. 2 (April 2013): 502–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/08.07.pr0.112.2.502-518.
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The Need for Humor (NFH) Scale measures the tendency to produce and seek out humor. This personality trait affects the processing and recall of humorous material. This study is a transcultural adaptation and validation of the NFH Scale with French participants, including 100 university students (Study 1a) and 160 school-aged children (Study 1b). Results from iterative exploratory analyses and confirmatory analyses revealed a bi-dimensional structure with satisfactory factor loadings. Internal consistency and test-retest reliability were also found to be adequate (Cronbach's alphas = .79 and .68; test-retest rs = .87 and .82). Children were tested on a preference task for humorous vs non-humorous print advertisements; children with high NFH scores responded more positively to humorous advertisements (Study 2). The French NFH Scale can be used as a valid and reliable tool for assessing need for humor in children and its effects on responses to print advertisements.
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Kulinich, Marina A. "Pandemic as Reflected in English and Russian." Current Issues in Philology and Pedagogical Linguistics, no. 3(2021) (September 25, 2021): 99–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.29025/2079-6021-2021-3-99-110.
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The article deals with verbal and non-verbal means of reflecting the present situation of pandemic in humour from linguo-cultural and intercultural point of view. The pandemic brought about numerous outbursts both in traditional mass media and social networks. One of its manifestations is a great number of jokes, anecdotes and memes about COVID-19. Various online platforms present innumerable humorous short texts. Mass media and social networks generate jokes, memes, anecdotes and caricatures. The corpus is drawn from popular social media platforms (Russian and English) and examined through derivational, stylistic, pragmatic and interpretative analyses. The paper explores the ways of creating a humorous effect on the word level (puns based on blends), on the level of short monologues and short dialogues (jokes). Special attention is paid to internet memes – multimodal (polycode) user-generated digital elements consisting of pictures or photos plus captions. The humorous effect in jokes is revealed by means of defeated expectancy when both primary and secondary meanings are manifested. The humorous effect in memes is achieved with the help of text reminiscences displayed by proper names and set phrases typical of various types of texts. The main topics distinguished in these humorous texts are quarantine, social distancing, mask wearing, hand washing and distance learning both in Russia and in English-speaking internet communities. It is shown that humour — even coronavirus and quarantine jokes — bring people together and help them feel connected in the face of adversity and uncertainty. The research will be continued by means of involving German and French humorous texts.
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I Dewa Putu Wijana. "Humor During The Covid 19 Pandemic." Talenta Conference Series: Local Wisdom, Social, and Arts (LWSA) 4, no. 2 (September 30, 2021): 24–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.32734/lwsa.v4i2.1187.
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This paper intends to describe the humorous discourses that emerge during the corona virus diseases pandemic. Even though I am very sure that there are still very limited humorous phenomena used to be the material of joke during the pandemic, their existence is still considered very important in enriching the inventory of jocular discourses in the use of Indonesian or local languages. Accordingly, through the collection of data obtained from various sources, this paper tries to classify types of humorous discourse can be found during the pandemic, and linguistic aspects exploited by the language speakers in creating their jokes.
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Parisi, Rose L., and Wesley A. Kayson. "Effects of Sex, Year in School, and Type of Cartoon on Ratings of Humor and Likability." Psychological Reports 62, no. 2 (April 1988): 563–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1988.62.2.563.
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This experiment studied how sex, year in school, and type of cartoon affects humor and likability ratings of two types of cartoons. 40 men and 40 women (20 college freshman, 20 sophomores, 20 juniors, and 20 seniors) rated 3 Far Side and 3 Family Circus cartoons for how humorous and likable the cartoons were. Two 4 × 2 × 2 mixed analyses of variance were performed, one on humor ratings and one on likability ratings. Far Side Cartoons were more humorous and likable than Family Circus cartoons. Men were more extreme in their ratings than women; they rated the Fat Side cartoons as more likable and humorous and Family Circus cartoons less likable and humorous than women. The triple interaction between sex, type of cartoons, and year in school was also significant for likability ratings. Results add to the literature on sex differences and show research on what affects preferred types of humor is needed.
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王, 思佳. "A Review of Humorous Leadership Research." Service Science and Management 11, no. 01 (2022): 34–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.12677/ssem.2022.111005.
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Strick, Madelijn. "Funny and meaningful: media messages that are humorous and moving provide optimal consolation in corona times." HUMOR 34, no. 2 (March 25, 2021): 155–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/humor-2021-0017.
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Abstract During the first months of the corona crisis, people worldwide produced and shared thousands of uplifting (e.g., humorous, moving) media messages. The six studies reported here empirically tested the consolatory effects of viewing such positive media messages in the US, The Netherlands, and the UK. I compared the impact of humorous and moving (i.e., touching, heartwarming) messages, as they provide different kinds of well-being: hedonic versus eudaimonic. Studies 1–3 had correlational designs. Largely in line with the hedonic versus eudaimonic well-being framework, the results suggested that humorous messages lift people’s spirits by providing pleasure, while moving messages lift people’s spirits by providing realism, optimism, and by illustrating core human values. Studies 4–6 used a pre- and post-measure of negative and positive emotions. The results showed that viewing non-moving humorous messages significantly reduced negative emotions but did not increase positive emotions. Viewing non-humorous moving messages reduced negative emotions and increased positive emotions in the US and UK, but not in The Netherlands. Finally, viewing messages that are both humorous and moving reduced negative emotions and increased positive emotions in all samples, implying they are particularly valuable as mood-enhancers during crises. The practical and theoretical implications of these findings are discussed.
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Doynikova, Marina Igorevna. "Humorous means in political Internet memes (based on the material of the German language)." Philology. Issues of Theory and Practice 16, no. 10 (September 29, 2023): 3272–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.30853/phil20230508.
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The study aims to identify the humorous means of Internet memes that reflect the socio-political moods of German residents. In the course of the study, topical political humorous German-language Internet memes were selected and an analysis of the verbal and visual means reflecting the (linguo-)creative potential of Internet users when creating a humorous effect was carried out. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the fact that it represents the first attempt to conduct such an analysis. As a result, it has been proved that Internet users employ original visual and verbal components based on humorous means to create political memes. It has been found that the visual component, as well as puns, coinage of new words or expressions based on the names of leading politicians are the main manifestations of (linguistic) creativity. It has been noted that a political Internet meme is a socio-cultural phenomenon that reflects the socio-political sentiments of a certain society and is understandable only to those who are familiar with the socio-political realities and culture of this society.
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Kabingue, Mydah, Christian Ray Licen, Rowanne Marie Mangompit, and Sunliegh Gador. "Humorous memes for Covid-19 communications and carnivalesque functions." HO CHI MINH CITY OPEN UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF SCIENCE - SOCIAL SCIENCES 13, no. 1 (June 20, 2023): 18–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.46223/hcmcoujs.soci.en.13.1.2562.2023.
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This study described the types and functions of humor in memes during the Covid-19 pandemic to have a better understanding of the content and the role of humor during a crisis. This study identified the general ideas that emerged from the Bisaya memes including the types and functions of Bisaya humor. Using the qualitative and research methods, the results revealed the general ideas which included health practices, security, and health behavior. Comparison, pun, and exaggeration predominated which could be attributed to the Filipinos’ creativity and fondness of vivid images and by virtue of its repressive colonial history. For carnivalesque functionality, the exposition of social inequities, therapy, and subversion of social order prevailed. These imply the Filipinos’ dissatisfaction with the government’s programs, fight against information disorders, and parodying hierarchic authority in a comical manner. Consequently, memes cannot reflect Filipinos’ knowledge of the pandemic because this is a new experience for us. Memes can express the basic needs of the people/platform to express our experiences brought by the pandemic. Lastly, humorous memes serve a dualistic function in the study: they both delight and criticize.
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Stewart, Patrick A. "The influence of self- and other-deprecatory humor on presidential candidate evaluation during the 2008 US election." Social Science Information 50, no. 2 (May 26, 2011): 201–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0539018410396616.
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This study considers the effect of participants’ evaluation of self-deprecatory and other-deprecatory (attack) humorous comments made by presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain during the 2008 electoral season. Humor, by evoking laughter in an audience, provides evidence of support for competitors for a leadership position through social contagion, and can be used to attack competitors ( Alexander, 1986 ) while sanctioning behavior at odds with group norms, whereas humor focused on oneself may be seen as a way of attending to egalitarian norms while ascending the dominance hierarchy ( Boehm, 1999 ). A total of 185 participants analyzed here took part in a web-based experiment carried out 2 weeks before the 2008 presidential election. Short video excerpts of the presidential candidates making both self-deprecatory and other-deprecatory humorous comments serve as stimuli. Findings suggest previously held opinions about the presidential candidates influence participant evaluation of humorous comments by the candidates. These comments, in turn, influence how participants evaluate the candidate making the humorous comment.
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Stala, Ewa. "Humor średniowieczny w świetle Ogólnej Teorii Humoru Słownego (GTVH) na przykładzie Księgi Dobrej Miłości (1330-1343)." Biuletyn Polskiego Towarzystwa Językoznawczego LXXIX, no. 79 (December 31, 2023): 371–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0054.2636.
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Niniejszy artykuł ma na celu analizę średniowiecznego utworu hiszpańskiego pod kątem zawartych w nim aspektów humorystycznych, a zarazem stanowi próbę zastosowania narzędzi stricte językoznawczych w badaniu materiału literackiego. Korpus badawczy stanowi Księga Dobrej Miłości Juana Ruiza (hiszp. Libro de Buen Amor), a zastosowana metodologia to tzw. Ogólna Teoria Humoru Słownego (ang. General Theory of Verbal Humor) (Attardo, Raskin 1991, Attardo 1994) będąca rozwinięciem teorii skryptów V. Raskina (1985). O ile istnieją prace poświęcone ironicznemu charakterowi dzieła (cf. Menéndez Pelayo 1944, Menéndez Pidal 1958, Ayerbe Chaux 1968, López Castro 2009 czy Imperiale 2016), brak studiów poświęconych zjawisku humoru w tym jednoznacznie humorystycznym utworze. Niniejsze badanie dowodzi, że współczesna językoznawcza teoria humoru może mieć zastosowanie w przypadku tego sztandarowego dzieła epoki Średniowiecza sensu stricto, zaś sensu largo, że narzędzie językoznawcze jako narzędzie filologiczne może być pomocne w analizie tekstu literackiego. Jednocześnie mamy nadzieję, że przeprowadzona analiza według schematu Attardo pozwoli lepiej zrozumieć fenomen humoru w tym sztandarowym utworze literatury hiszpańskiej i da asumpt do kolejnych badań humoru epoki Średniowiecza.The aim of the paper is to analyse the humorous aspects of a medieval Spanish text while applying strictly linguistic tools in the study of a literary material. The source of research data is Juan Ruiz’s Libro de buen amor (Book of Good Love), and the methodology used is the so-called General Theory of Verbal Humor (Attardo, Raskin 1991; Attardo 1994), an extension of V. Raskin’s script theory (1985). While a number of studies have dealt with the ironic nature of Libro… (e.g. Menéndez Pelayo 1944; Menéndez Pidal 1958; Ayerbe Chaux 1968; López Castro 2009; Imperiale 2016), there has been no academic output devoted to the phenomenon of humour in this unequivocally humorous work. The paper shows that a current linguistic theory of humor can be applied sensu stricto to the analysis of this flagship medieval work, and that linguistic tools seen as philological tools can be helpful in the analysis of a medieval text sensu largo. At the same time, we hope that the analysis that follows Attardo’s scheme will allow us to understand in a better way the phenomenon of humor in this masterpiece of Spanish literature and will inspire further research on medieval humor.
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Amel Kadhum Abed, Assist Lect, and Assist Lect Hiba Nadhim Jebur. "Flouting Grice’s Maxims in Some Selected Clean Jokes: A Pragmatic Study." لارك 4, no. 47 (September 30, 2022): 1075–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.31185/lark.vol4.iss47.2675.
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Jokes are verbal forms that have humorous effect when told and their humorous effect causes laughing on the part of the listeners. One of the reasons that cause the humorous effect of jokes is flouting the maxims of the cooperative principle, known as Grice’s maxims. Grice’s maxims are seen as a type of agreement between the communicators to cooperate in communication. At the same time, they are not considered as rules. This research tries to explore which of Grice’s maxim(s) are flouted to create the humorous effect in jokes. It also tries to find out which maxim is flouted the most. The sample jokes were chosen randomly by the researchers and descriptive qualitative method is used to analyze the data accumulated. The analysis of the twenty clean jokes chosen is based on Grice's cooperative principle. The analysis shows that the maxim of quality is the most flouted as compared with other ones. And the maxim of relevance is flouted more than the maxim of quantity. Similar researches can be conducted on other types and forms of humor or on other types of jokes.
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TAGUDRETOVA, B. B. "HUMOROUS SKILL OF THE WRITER MARHABAT BAIGUT." Bulletin of the Eurasian Humanities Institute, Philology Series, no. 1 (March 30, 2023): 261–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.55808/1999-4214.2023-1.21.
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The article analyzes the problem of humor in the works of the writer Marhabat Baigut. The place and artistic function of humor in the ideological, thematic, author-worldview, figurative and stylistic terms in the writer's prose works are studied. The writer's unique style in the use of humor is seen as a creative achievement. The pathos that evokes the reader's amusement and easy smile comes from the character of the work, the behavior of the characters, the skills, the actions, the general pictorial components. Situations created by humor in depicting everyday life and reality, conflicts, relationships, types of language use are differentiated, and humor is recognized as one of the most rational techniques found in the writer's works. The active use of dialogue in the works under study in order to comprehensively cover, accurately and clearly convey what the writer wants to say, through the use of humor, language turns, short and unexpected sentences, a successful monologue, dialogue characterized by naturalness, as well as the author's narrative patterns, details are shown on concrete examples and confirmed by the concept in scientific works. It is also said about his good humor, which leads the reader to serious thoughts, light, sincere jokes in a friendly atmosphere perform an important social function. The goal was to identify the place of humor in the writer's work, which is deeply connected with the identity of the Kazakh people.
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Ayedh Saeed Dajem, Manal. "The Effect of Multimedia on L2 Idiom Learning: Using Instructional Humorous Videos with Saudi Female EFL Undergraduate Learners." Arab World English Journal, no. 270 (January 3, 2024): 1–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.24093/awej/th.270.
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Learning formulaic language, such as idioms, is considered one of the greatest difficulties encountered by EFL learners. The aim of the present study is twofold: first, to examine the effect of using humorous videos on learners’ ability to understand and remember English idioms; second, to investigate students’ attitudes towards learning idioms through humorous videos as a multimedia instructional method. The sample of this study consisted of 50 Saudi female EFL undergraduate learners in the English department at Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, Saudi Arabia. The participants were divided into two groups of 25 students; an experimental group and a control group. The data of the study was collected via three research instruments: pre-test, immediate and delayed post-tests, and an attitudinal questionnaire. A pre-test was given to both groups at the beginning of the study to ensure that they were equivalent. Proceeding this, the experimental group was instructed using humorous videos, while the control group was instructed in the traditional method. Finally, both groups underwent post-tests to measure the performance effects on two levels of idiomatic knowledge: recall and transfer. Results showed that there was a statistically significant difference between the performance of the experimental group and the control group; indicating a positive effect on the experimental group’s recall and transfer. Thus, the study concludes that the use of humorous videos appears to improve learners’ ability to understand and remember English idioms, in addition to indicating that learners hold a positive attitude towards learning idioms through humorous videos as a multimedia instructional method.
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Wowro, Iwona. "Das Bild und Konzeptualisierungsvarianz des Humors in Minitexten mit Humor." Germanica Wratislaviensia 143 (December 17, 2018): 403–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.19195/0435-5865.143.27.
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Ziel des vorliegenden Beitrags ist zu zeigen, wie der Begriff Humor in humorvoll gearteten Texten gezeigt und konzeptualisiert wird, d.h. welche kognitiven Schemata diesem Phänomen zugewiesen werden können. So gilt es für die Zwecke des vorliegenden Beitrags den Humor als eine allgegenwärtige, mehrdimensionale und übergreifende Kategorie darzustellen. Für ein solches Vorhaben wird ein Korpus von über 200 Aphorismen, Sprüchen oder sog. pointierten Zitaten aus verschiedenen Epochen herangezogen, um zu veranschaulichen, wie er von den Aphoristikern und anderen Autoren wahrgenommen und erfasst wird.Image and possibilities of conceptualization of humourin humorously marked minitextsThe aim of the article is to present a general image of humour functioning in the public sphere and the possibilities of conceptualization of humour from a sociological and linguistic perspective. Next, attention is turned to the specificity of humorously marked texts and to their reception. The empirical part depicts the image of humour conceptualization in selected aphorisms, proverbs and other short humorous texts and illustrates various subjective interpretive models of this category.
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Woodzicka, Julie A., Robyn K. Mallett, and Kala J. Melchiori. "Gender differences in using humor to respond to sexist jokes." HUMOR 33, no. 2 (May 27, 2020): 219–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/humor-2019-0018.
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AbstractWe examine the degree to which women and men use humor to confront sexist jokes. We also test the social benefits and perceived effectiveness of confronting with humor. One-hundred-sixty-four (46% female) participants read about a male coworker who made a sexist joke and reported how they would respond in an open-ended format. Women were more likely than men to say they would respond with humor. Specifically, 16% of women, compared to 4.5% of men, spontaneously provided a humorous confrontation. Participants then read a second scenario that asked them to imagine a male friend making a sexist joke. We manipulated the confronter’s gender and the type of confrontation (humorous versus serious) in the scenario. Confronters who used a humorous (versus serious) response were rated as more likeable but less effective. People often hesitate to confront sexism for fear of social repercussions. Given that humorous confrontation reduces social backlash, it might be worth slightly lower perceived effectiveness to increase overall rates of confronting sexism.
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Carroll, James L., and Jerry L. Shmidt. "Correlation between Humorous Coping Style and Health." Psychological Reports 70, no. 2 (April 1992): 402. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1992.70.2.402.
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A significant correlation of −0.34 was found between scores on the Situational Humor Response Questionnaire and a measure of perceived physical health for 51 college students. Mean scores on the questionnaire were similar to those of the original standardization population.
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Fedotova, N. V. "Anti-value dimension of "The Leather Special" by Amy Schumer." Interexpo GEO-Siberia 5 (May 18, 2022): 116–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.33764/2618-981x-2022-5-116-119.
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This article analyzes the humorous aspect of the main anti-values in "The Leather Special" by Amy Schumer. The author identifies the following main ridiculed anti-values which are actualized in this humorous work: unattractiveness, drunkenness, lust and selfishness. In addition, the author also highlights the main characteristics of these ridiculed concepts. It should be noted that the majority of jokes in this stand-up special is devoted to sexual humor.
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Tsakona, Villy. "Online Satirical News as Instances of Liquid Racism: Evidence from Greek." University of Bucharest Review Literary and Cultural Studies Series 13, no. 1 (October 20, 2023): 92–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.31178/ubr.13.1.8.
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When discussing the relationship between humour and racism, research usually concentrates on ethnic or racist jokes or on other humorous texts which expressly target migrants or other minorities. Relevant studies more or less explicitly ascribe to critical humour studies investigating topics such as how and why humour targeting the linguistic, cultural, or religious Other reproduces and maintains social discrimination and inequality, as well as how and why the generic conventions of humorous genres do not incite the audience to think critically of their content but instead enhance their tolerance for discriminatory and racist standpoints. In this context, the present study explores humorous texts that at first sight appear to have antiracist intentions. More specifically, I analyse a corpus of satirical news coming from popular Greek websites and targeting majority people for their racist views and practices towards migrants. The analysis is based on the concepts of script opposition and target as defined in the framework of the General Theory of Verbal Humour. The findings suggest that distinguishing between antiracist and racist interpretations is not an easy or straightforward matter: humour seems to blur the boundary between racism and antiracism. In order to account for this dimension of humour, I exploit the concept of liquid racism put forward by Weaver (The Rhetoric of Racist Humour) to account for the ambiguities of humorous discourse when it involves racist and antiracist meanings and interpretations.
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Shcherbina, Tatyana. "Representation of the Concept «Woman» in German Sports Discourse (Based on Sports Anecdotes)." Izvestia of Smolensk State University, no. 1(57) (July 3, 2022): 122–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.35785/2072-9464-2022-57-1-122-135.
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This article examines some features of the representation of the concept «woman» in German sports discourse. The research is conducted on a specific section of this discourse, which is coloured by a humorous tone. For the linguocognitive
and linguocultural analysis of sports anecdotes, which we have selected as empirical material of this study, the following methods are used: discursive, component, con-
ceptual analysis, classification, observation, lexico-graphical and contextual study. The paper presents a working definition of sports discourse, describes its correlation with humorous discourse, identifies linguistic and narrative anecdotes or-
ganizing humorous communicative space. We have obtained new data on the semantic images of the concept «woman» in sports anecdotes and outlined the prospects for further research of this issue in German and in comparative aspect hrough com-
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Lyu, Xuanxuan. "Translating humorous videos on social media: Meaning-making in a shared culture." SHS Web of Conferences 159 (2023): 01008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/202315901008.
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This paper focuses on the practices by amateur subtitlers who translate and disseminate foreign humorous videos on social media, with particular attention on the meaning-making process involving raw material selection, subtitling, reception and interaction within the online community. Drawing on relevance theory, this paper proposes that meaning-making in social media environment is achieved by both subtitlers and viewers who jointly construct a mutual cognitive environment containing shared cultural information. To verify this hypothesis, it selects 10 pieces of humorous videos and collects the viewer comments from weibo to analyze how subtitlers manage to convey the humorous meaning and how viewers respond to the subtitled content and negotiate meaning to build a shared culture. Overall, this paper contributes to the emerging research focus on the participatory consumption and reception of translated audiovisual texts in the digital era.
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Tiapkina, N., and M. Sarapii. "САТИРИЧНО-ГУМОРИСТИЧНІ ТЕКСТИ УКРАЇНСЬКОЇ БЛОГОСФЕРИ ЯК ІНСТРУМЕНТ ВІДТВОРЕННЯ ДІЙСНОСТІ." State and Regions. Series: Social Communications, no. 4(48) (February 2, 2022): 62. http://dx.doi.org/10.32840/cpu2219-8741/2021.4(48).9.
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<p><strong><em>The purpose </em></strong><em>of the study</em><em> is to characterize satirical and humorous texts of the Ukrainian blogosphere as a tool for representation of reality and manifestation of citizen journalism.</em></p><p><strong><em>Research methodology</em></strong><em>. To study the blogosphere a set of methods was used: method of analysis and synthesis, systematization of data and data interpretation. A revision of the literature on the creation of satirical and humorous effect in the blogosphere was made, it was considered scientific publications about blogs, their place in the public information space and their usage as a tool for representation reality. Content on YouTube was used for the analysis, in particular, channels that present satirical and humorous texts of the national segment on the analyzed platform. An online poll was conducted in order to identify popular blogs. The interpretative method demonstrated the dependence of satirical and humorous texts about social issues on the current political situation in the country and the author’s subjective assessment of the occurring events.</em></p><p><strong><em>Results. </em></strong><em>Based on the analysis of the scientific literature, the characteristics of the blog as an image of reality and a means of reality representation are highlighted. Popular satirical and humorous blogs are outlined, their functions and ways of creating a comic effect are characterized and justificated. The blogosphere in the media system is a powerful element of communication and an instrument of conveying information. Through the wide involvement of recipients blogosphere creates stereotypes, instructions, prejudices in society, as well as reduces or increases social tension. Satirical and humorous texts are important channel for transferring information from the author to the audience and at the same time a means of communication between the recipients themselves. Bloggers are able to involve the audience in communication, as well as to make informational, emotional impact through their texts. Therefore, it is necessary to understand the crucial importance of the blogosphere for consumers of content, including satirical and humorous. The study identified the dominant functions of popular satirical and humorous blogs by Alexei Durnev, BAMPER TV, Michael Schur Toronto Television on YouTube video hosting and outlined the actual component of the analyzed texts.</em></p><p><strong><em>Practical significance. </em></strong><em>The results of the study can be used in the process of working on courses in «Journalism» in the study of applied social and communication technologies; formation of competencies related to the creation of effective texts in social media, as well as media practices for understanding the tools of reality representation in the modern information space.</em></p><p><strong><em>Key words: </em></strong><em>blog, blogosphere, satirical and humorous text, reality, citizen journalism.</em><em></em></p>
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Wawrzyniuk, Justyna. "“That’s the Metaphor You’re Going for?” Deliberate Metaphor and Humor." Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric 61, no. 1 (March 1, 2020): 183–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/slgr-2020-0010.
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AbstractThis paper aims at discussing the function of deliberate metaphors in humorous narratives due to the similarities in mechanisms underlying both elements of language. This corpus-based analysis has shown the relation between deliberate metaphors and elements of the knowledge resources of the General Theory of Verbal Humor (GTVH). The study has revealed that if deliberate metaphors are part of humorous narratives, they are more likely to be the source of the funniness rather than the transit system which conveys the metaphors themselves. With this in mind, it is possible to assess the extent to which deliberate metaphors contribute to humor.
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Skryl, Oksana, and Yuliia Sharun. "Linguistic Personality of Homo Ridens." PSYCHOLINGUISTICS 25, no. 2 (April 18, 2019): 273–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.31470/2309-1797-2019-25-2-273-289.
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The article is part of a more detailed study of a linguistic laughing personality (homo ridens) in British literature within the framework of the theory of anthropocentrism. The results of the scientific literature analysis aimed at the study of the concept of “linguistic personality” and “laughing linguistic personality”, in particular, are presented. From a wide range of examples starting from Chaucer up to the present we have selected the brightest characters in the English literature represented by W. Shakespeare and B. Shaw to highlight the main characteristics of the communicative style of homo ridens behavior. The analysis of the development of the personality is provided and the ways of achieving humorous effect in the process of communication in humorous discourse are given. The main factors of influence (psychological, social, cultural, etc.) on the formation of a laughing communicative personality are highlighted. The perception, understanding and interpretation of the world are covered within humorous discourse. Particular attention is paid to the intentions of comedians to use high-quality intellectual humor not only to create a humorous effect, but also for a philosophical explanation of the basic realities and laws of being. Shakespearean fools characterized as highly intellectual communicative people tend to influence their humor on the ruler and, thus, to the development of consciousness of the nation as a whole. Both linguistic and extra-linguistic means of expressing opinion by a laughing personality are analyzed. The analysis of the ‘quality’ of English humor has been carried out in order to show the influence of English fools as mimetic personalities on the British society in general. The ability of the communicative personality of homo ridens within the norms adopted by society to clearly reflect the realities of life of their era in a humorous form is characterized that further allows us to analyze the identity of the British comedian in diachrony.
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Weldon, Fay. "Towards a humorous view of the universe." Women's Studies 15, no. 1-3 (October 1988): 309–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00497878.1988.9978734.
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Harm, Jonathan, Sandrine Vieillard, and André Didierjean. "Using humour as an extrinsic source of emotion regulation in young and older adults." Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 67, no. 10 (October 2014): 1895–909. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2013.873474.
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It has been suggested that intrinsic abilities for regulating emotions remain stable or improve with ageing, but, to date, no studies have examined age-related differences in extrinsic emotion regulation. Since humour has been found to be an effective form of emotion regulation, we used a paradigm similar to that of Strick and colleagues (2009) with two objectives: to compare extrinsic humorous emotion regulation in young and older adults and to test whether the potential beneficial effect of humour on negative emotion is better explained by the cognitive distraction hypothesis or by the positive affect elicitation hypothesis. To this end, neutral, moderately, and strongly negative pictures followed by humorous, simply positive, or weird cartoons, controlled for both their funniness and cognitive demands, were presented to 26 young and 25 older adults with the instruction to report their negative feelings. When induced to feel moderately negative emotions, both young and older adults reported a lower negative feeling after viewing the humorous cartoons than after the other ones. This indicates that the extrinsic humorous emotion regulation skill remains stable with ageing and suggests that the beneficial effect of humour on emotional feeling cannot be seen as a purely cognitive distraction.