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Krasowska, Anna. "O pojęciu kompetencji w lingwistycznych badaniach nad humorem." Biuletyn Polskiego Towarzystwa Językoznawczego LXXVI, no. 76 (December 31, 2020): 107–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0014.6677.
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Kompetencja humorystyczna, którą można zdefiniować jako zdolność rozpoznawania i rozumienia humoru, jest istotnym składnikiem kompetencji semantycznej i pragmatycznej. Niniejszy artykuł poświęcono ewolucji znaczenia tego terminu w lingwistyce przełomu XX i XXI wieku oraz jego wykorzystaniu w akwizycji języków obcych i badaniach nad komizmem historycznym. The concept of competence in linguistic humour research. Summary: Humour competence, which can be defined as the capacity to recognize and understand humour, is an important aspect of semantic and pragmatic competence. This paper is devoted to the evolution of the concept of humor competence in linguistics at the turn of the 21th century as well as its use in studies on second language acquisition and historical humour. Keywords: humor competence, joke competence, humor research
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Agwu, Edwin. "Strategic Importance of Humorous Advertisement on Consumer Purchase Decisions." International Journal of Innovation in the Digital Economy 13, no. 1 (January 2022): 1–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijide.292492.
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Humour as an advertisement appeal informs and guides customers’ on the important decisions they make before the purchase of various goods and services. Humour is majorly used to sell products. The inclusion of humors in advertisements in both the print and electronic media has become a must for various product advertisements in most organizations. Humours it is believed attracts customers to the products being showcased. Furthermore, the use of celebrities in humours has also added colours as such well-known figures often endear such products to the customers and gives it a lasting remembrance and ease of reference and recall in many circles. Audiences in different cultures respond differently to humour and possesses different behaviour in purchases.
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Lyra, Hera Meganova, Wahya Wahya, and R. Yudi Permadi. "HUMOR PORNOGRAFI DALAM TATARUCINGAN ‘TEKA-TEKI SUNDA’ (PORNOGRAPHIC HUMOUR IN TATARUCINGAN ‘SUNDANESE RIDDLES’)." Metalingua: Jurnal Penelitian Bahasa 18, no. 1 (June 30, 2020): 39. http://dx.doi.org/10.26499/metalingua.v18i1.509.
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This writing describes pornographic humour conveyed in tatarucingan ‘Sundanese riddles’. I focuses on pornographic connotation and types of pornographic humour existing in tatarucingan. The method used was descriptive one with theoretical analysis by Sukatman (2009) combined with Danandjaja (1984), Rahmanadji (2007), Yuniawan (2007), and Mulia (2014). The result shows that the pornographic connotation in tatarucingan conveyed in the questions or answers of the tatarucingan ‘riddles’. I means that the pornographic connotation may be conveyed in the questionsand may also be in the answers of the riddles. The types of pornographic connotation include rational-answer humour, logic games humour, pseudo-incoherence humour, sound games humour and metaphorical humour. AbstrakPenelitian ini mendeskripsikan humor pornografi yang terdapat dalam tatarucingan ‘teka-teki Sunda’. Masalah yang dikaji meliputi konotasi pornografi dan jenis humor pornografi yang terdapat dalam tatarucingan. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah metode deskriptif dengan kajian menggunakan analisis teori Sukatman (2009) yang diekletikkan dengan teori Danandjaja (1984), Rahmanadji (2007), Yuniawan (2007), dan Mulia (2014). Hasil penelitian menunjukkan konotasi pornografi yang terdapat dalam tatarucingan muncul pada pertanyaan atau jawaban tatarucingan. Dalam arti, konotasi pornografi ada yang muncul dalam pertanyaan,ada pula yang muncul dalam jawaban tatarucingan. Humor pornografi jika dilihat dari jenisnya meliputi humor rasionalitas jawaban, humor permainan logika, humor ketidaklogisan semu, humor permainan bunyi, dan humor bermetafora.
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Kurniati, Ai. "PARADOKS DAN IMPLIKASINYA DALAM HUMOR BERTEMA KORUPSI." SUAR BETANG 12, no. 1 (January 7, 2018): 39. http://dx.doi.org/10.26499/surbet.v12i1.15.
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The corruption-themed humours come along with the increasing number of corruption cases in this country. The uniqueness of paradox in the corruption-themed humours is a contrary opinion or argument to popular opinion could be considered as strange or extraordinary. This paper discusses the form of paradox along with its implications in the corruption-themed humour discourse. This paper aims to describe the form of paradox and its implications in corruption-themed humour discourse. This is a descriptive paper and uses qualitative explanation to elaborate the data. Based on the findings, there are six political humour discourses with the corruption-themed humour which contains paradox language style
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Kouser, Hina V., Fatima Khan, Ayesha Tehseen, Mohd Nayab, and Abdul Nasir Ansari. "Understanding the concept of Purgation (Ishal) in Unani Medicine: A Review." Journal of Drug Delivery and Therapeutics 11, no. 2 (March 15, 2021): 241–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.22270/jddt.v11i2.4584.
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The theory of humours (akhlat) is one of the fundamental pillars of the Unani System of Medicine (USM). The concept of health and disease depends on the quality (kaifiyat) and quantity (kammiyat) of humour (khilt). Health (sehat) lasts when humours remain in equilibrium and the main determinant of health is the balance in six essential factors (asbab-e-sittah zarooriya). These factors are highly modifiable and deviation in any of them leads to disequilibrium in humours either qualitatively or quantitatively which ultimately manifests in the form of the disease. Elimination (istifragh) of these morbid humours from the body becomes mandatory to treat the diseases or to restore health. One of the effective methods of elimination is purgation (ishal). It is a method by which morbid humours from the body are eliminated through the anal route. Before the elimination of any pathological humour especially in chronic diseases, it is mandatory to make the humour easily eliminable. This process of making the pathological humour eliminable is known as concoction (nuzj). The process of concoction is a regular and continuous process of the tabiyat (mediatrix naturae) of the body. In case of a minor deviation in humour, tabiyat itself eliminates it from the body after concoction. When the causative pathological humours are in abundance or grossly deviated from normalcy, tabiyat needs help from outside the body. This help of tabiyat can be done with some humour specific drugs which are known as concoctive medicines (munzij advia). Once, the humours become eliminable, the process of evacuation can be started. Classical Unani literature and published papers were explored to find the rationale of purgation therapy. Purgation is found to be advisable in the treatment of many chronic diseases. Tabiyat is the ultimate healer in the body and purgation helps it to overcome the diseases.
Keywords: Istifragh; Munzij; Nuzj; Akhlat; Humours; Concoction
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Omer, Hanan Khatab, and Qasim Obias Al-Azzawi. "A Pragmatic Analysis of Humour in American TV Talk Shows." JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE STUDIES 4, no. 2 (December 27, 2023): 54–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.25130/jls.4.2.6.
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This research is conducted to study the phenomenon of humour pragmatically in TV talk shows. Though humour is found in daily conversation, most people ignore how it is working in the production. The concept of humour indicates both positive (non- aggressive) and negative (aggressive) affects which may unify or divide people, but it is more preferable to take positive humour into the consideration of this research to narrow down the topic. The objectives of this research are to analyze the maxims that are violated to create humor, to describe and explain the production of humour by examining the pragmatic structure of humorous transcripts, and to explain the functions of humor created through maxims violation expressed by speakers in TV talk shows. This research is conducted by using qualitative method. The data are in the form of utterances done by speakers. The data sources of this research are selected from the videos on You Tube Channel. After being collected, the data are analyzed based on three levels: the initiation of humour and its purpose, the pragmatic strategies of humour, and
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Wananda, Silvia Nurfajri Aprilla, Rahmadsyah Rangkuti, and Muhammad Yusuf. "A Linguistic Analysis of Verbal Humor Found in the Transcription of Animated TV Series Gravity Falls." VELES Voices of English Language Education Society 5, no. 2 (October 28, 2021): 143–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.29408/veles.v5i2.3976.
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Humour is one of the channels used in communication to express a concept or an idea. It can also be used to entertain people, such as in a TV show. This research focuses on the investigation of verbal perceptions of humour found in the transcription of the animated TV series Gravity Falls. Its purpose is to figure out what kinds of verbal humour can be found in the transcription of the animated television series Gravity Falls, as well as how the verbal humour in its transcription linguistically examined using the General Theory of Verbal Humour (GTVH). This study examined an episode of “Gravity Falls season 2: Not What He Seems” using a descriptive qualitative technique. The investigation discovered 29 linguistic humours in the research object, which were classified into 9 of the 12 types. The six Knowledge Resources in the General Theory of Verbal Humour (GTVH) are used to analyze the verbal humours previously discovered linguistically: Script Opposition (SO), Logical Mechanism (LM), Situation (SI), Target (TA), Narrative Strategy (NS), and Language (LA). To analyze the verbal humour, the analysis is done in a hierarchical order of the KRs.
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Saputro, Septian. "HUMOR TERKAIT MU’AMMAR AL-QAZ\A>FI (ANALISIS PRAGMATIK)." Adabiyyāt: Jurnal Bahasa dan Sastra 15, no. 2 (December 25, 2016): 197. http://dx.doi.org/10.14421/ajbs.2016.15205.
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Humour functions as a critic, satire, irony or propaganda. By using humour, it is posible to say the truth elegantly and sofly, without disturbing others’ feeling. In pragmatic comunication theory, humour is created from deviations of comunication principles, e.g: Grice principle of comunication and Leech principle of comunication. This research uses the jokes on the former leader of Libyan Mu’ammar al-Qaz\a>fi as the object material. Mu’ammar al-Qaz\a>fi was the leader of controversy as well as he was a dictator. Then, there are assumptions that the humours about al-Qaz\a>fi are not only about entertaiment but also about special aims. The researcher uses pragmatic analysis that covers Grice cooperative principle, Leech politeness principle and speech acts (illocutionary act). The results are that political humour in Libyan was a new kind of humour and it was developed while the revolution was on and in the aftermath. While Ilocutionart Acts, which are found in the humours about al-Qaz\a>fi, are irony, claiming, ordering, complaining, and satiring. The aims in the humours are satire and irony.
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Kausar, Sana, Mohammad Zulkifle, Waris Ali, and Nabila Subhan. "A COMPREHENSIVE STUDY OF BILIOUS DISEASES: AN OVERVIEW." International Journal of Advanced Research 11, no. 03 (March 31, 2023): 115–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.21474/ijar01/16397.
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Human being has always been suffering from diseases. Before the beginning of Ṭibb (medicine) (300Bc), superstitions were considered as the cause of disease. Therefore, Gods and Goddesses were worshipped to cure disease and regain health. Since the existence of medicine, the material is considered a cause of disease. Accordingly, treatment shifted towards the material. In 500 BC Buqrat (Hippocrates) started the discussion of health. He established the views of structure, composition, properties and functions, health and disease in respect of the human body. So, the goal of Greek medicine is to protect health to the possible extent and cure disease. Hippocrates proposed the concept of AkhlÄá¹Arbaa (four humours/four fluid) these are Khilá¹-i- Dam (sanguineous humour), Khilá¹-i-Balgham (phlegmatic humour), Khilá¹-i-á¹¢afrÄ (choleric humour) and Khilá¹-i-SawdÄʼ (melancholic humour). He also proposed that the harmonious state of four humours is responsible for health. And, disharmony results in disease. Every humour is attributed to specific qualities, characteristics and some specific and general functions. But the main function of these AkhlÄá¹ (humours) is to provide nutrition and replenishment of every organ of the body according to their temperament. Choleric humour is synonymously called yellow bile or bilious humour. Yellow bile is one of the four humours, responsible for health and disease. In abnormal state yellow bile can produce a number of diseases called bilious diseases. In U.S.M. (Unani System of Medicine) bilious diseases are discussed under the heading of SÅ«-i-MizÄjMÄddá¿‘ (morbid temperament associated with substance). In this paper, a brief explanation of yellow bile along with it relates is given. Pathophysiology of bilious diseases is given in detail.
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Saroglou, Vassilis, and Christel Scariot. "Humor Styles Questionnaire: personality and educational correlates in Belgian high school and college students." European Journal of Personality 16, no. 1 (January 2002): 43–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/per.430.
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Studies often treat sense of humour as a unidimensional construct. Recently, however, four different humour styles have been hypothesized and validated by the Humor Styles Questionnaire (HSQ). In the present two studies, first, the HSQ received cross‐cultural validation among French‐speaking Belgian students (94 high school and 87 college students). Second, apart from some similarities (Extraversion, low need for closure), the four humour styles were found to be differently related to personality. Social and self‐enhancing humour styles were positively related to Agreeableness, Openness, and self‐esteem, whereas hostile humour was negatively related to Agreeableness and Conscientiousness. Self‐defeating humour was negatively related to Emotional Stability, Conscientiousness, security in attachment, and self‐esteem. Finally, students' humour styles were neither direct nor indirect predictors of school performance, but self‐defeating and hostile humour styles were typical of students with low school motivation. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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Anam, Khoirul, Rusdhianti Wuryaningrum, and Ahmad Syukron. "Wacana Humor dalam Bajigur TV." Alinea: Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, dan Pengajaran 9, no. 2 (October 31, 2020): 99. http://dx.doi.org/10.35194/alinea.v9i2.1001.
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Kajian dalam artikel ini terdiri atas empat rumusan yaitu bagaimanakah wujud wacana humor, bagaimanakah prinsip humor, bagaimanakah teknik humor, dan bagaimanakah pemanfaatan WHBTV untuk materi ajar menulis teks anekdot. Penelitian dilaksanakan menggunakan rancangan penelitian kualitatif-etnografi berbahasa dengan pendekatan analisis wacana. Hasil yang ditemukan berwujud wacana ejekan terhadap pekerjaan, penyebab emosi, memanfaatkan kesusahan, tawaran mengecewakan, tipuan, menggoda wanita, melebih-lebihkan hal sepele, memberikan alasan berubah-ubah, menjelaskan hal unik tidak masuk akal, olokan tertentu, dan dugaan salah. Prinsip humor pada wacana ini berupa prinsip kesepakatan berhumor, menggunakan tuturan yang berlebihan, penyampaian kritikan, dan menggunakan kata-kata brutal dalam batas kesopanan. Teknik humor dalam yang digunakan berupa bahasa yang menghasikan humor lewat kata-kata, logika memunculkan efek humor dari hasil pemikiran pemain, dan identitas berupa kekhasan berhumor pemain.Katakunci: anekdot, humor, teknik humorAbstract:The article discusses four research questions including how is the form, the principle and the technique of humour, and how the use of WHBTV for teaching materials to write anecdotal texts. The study was conducted using a qualitative-ethnographic language research design with a discourse analysis approach. The results were found in the form of discourses on ridicule of work, emotional causes, taking advantage of distress, disappointing offers, tricks, flirting with women, exaggerating trivial things, giving fluctuating reasons, explaining unique things that don't make sense, certain ridicule, and wrong allegations. The principle of humour in this discourse is in the form of the principle of agreement with humour, using excessive speech, conveying criticism, and using brutal words within the limits of politeness. The internal humour technique used is in the form of language that produces humour through words, logic creates a humorous effect from the results of the players' thoughts, and identity in the form of player humour.Keywords: anecdotes, humor, humor techniques
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Rębkowska, Agata. "Humor w badaniach nad przekładem." Romanica Wratislaviensia 63 (October 11, 2016): 157–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.19195/0557-2665/63.12.
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HUMOUR IN TRANSLATION STUDIES Humour, manifesting itself at different semiotic levels of a text, is considered to be one of the most common translation challenges. However, previous studies dealing with translation of humour mainly consist of various aspects of translating humorous phenomena expressed themselves especially at the linguistic level. The aim of the article is to present the most important linguistic theories of humor structural isotopy, semantic theory of scripts, the general theory of verbal humor, humor seen as a violation of the conversational maxims or as the game with implicatures, as well as some observations in the field of translation studies, and subsequently to develop describing tools for the translation of humorous phenomena in audiovisual texts.
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Sofian, Akhriyadi, and Muhammad Reza Khadafi. "Visualisasi kreasi humor Covid-19: Pengawasan penanganan Covid-19 oleh milenial di ranah virtual." Satwika : Kajian Ilmu Budaya dan Perubahan Sosial 6, no. 1 (April 28, 2022): 92–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.22219/satwika.v6i1.20546.
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Humor merupakan salah satu cara komunikasi politik. Humor divisualisasi dalam bentuk meme dan dimanfaatkan oleh kalangan milenial untuk melakukan fungsi pengawasan terhadap kebijakan pemerintah dalam menangani pandemi covid-19. Tujuan dari riset ini adalah untuk mengetahui bagaimana visualisasi humor di kalangan milenial dan mengapa milenial memilih kreasi humor visual dalam mengawasi penanganan covid-19 oleh pemerintah di ranah virtual. Metode yang dipakai dalam riset ini adalah metode kualitatif dengan pendekatan etnografi digital. Temuan riset ini adalah jenis meme yang dikreasikan oleh kalangan milenial dalam mengawasi penanganan covid-19 umumnya adalah meme agresif (aggressive meme). Milenial cenderung memilih visualisasi humor berupa meme sebagai sebuah saluran komunikasi politik karena sifat instan dari kreasi meme namun efektif dalam menyampaikan pesan melalui medsos di ranah virtual. Humour is also used as political communication. Most humour is visualized as memes and used by millenials to do control and watch how government in tackling pandemic covid-19 in Indonesia. This research aims to understand how visualization of humour amongst millenials and why millenials choose visualization of humour to take control in virtual space of how government handling covid-19. Findings of this research is type of memes that often used by millenials related to covid-19 is an aggressive meme. Millenials usually create memes visualization of humour as a channel of political communication because memes is simple and instant but so effective disseminating message through social media in virtual space.
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Kazarian, Shahe S., and Rod A. Martin. "Humour styles, personality, and well‐being among Lebanese university students." European Journal of Personality 18, no. 3 (April 2004): 209–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/per.505.
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This research examined the structure and correlates of the Humor Styles Questionnaire (HSQ) in Lebanese university students. Four humour factors were found, as in the original Canadian samples: Affiliative, Self‐Enhancing, Aggressive, and Self‐Defeating humour. Scale reliabilities were generally acceptable, and inter‐correlations among the scales were low. Lebanese participants scored lower than Canadians on Affiliative and Self‐Enhancing humour and lower than Belgians on Affiliative and Aggressive humour. As in Canadian and Belgian samples, males reported significantly more use of Aggressive and Self‐Defeating humour than did females. Humour styles correlated differentially, and generally as predicted, with horizontal and vertical individualism and collectivism, attachment styles, perceived health, and psychological well‐being. Overall, the findings support the cross‐cultural stability of the HSQ as well as the differential relationship of these humour styles with culture‐related personality traits and psychological well‐being. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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N, Piplani. "Use of Humour in Learning Anatomy in a Better Way in Lecture Theatre or Dissection Hall - A Questionnaire Based Study." Journal of Human Anatomy 8, no. 1 (January 18, 2024): 1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.23880/jhua-16000199.
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Background: First year medical students normally experience a variety of emotional reactions and mixed feelings, when they encounter human cadavers for the first time. With changing curriculum, peer pressure, stressful work conditions, etc. it becomes tough or even difficult to relax our mind. Humour has been shown to boost motivation, improve problem-solving skills, and foster creativity and critical thinking. It also promotes a happy learning atmosphere and reduces examination anxiety. The purpose of this study was to assess opinions of medical students about using humour while learning Anatomy in acquiring excellence in clinical skills and knowledge. Material & Methods: 258 medical students participated in the study and responded to the paper-based questionnaire. The student questionnaire comprised of sixteen questions related to attitudes towards the use of humour in the subject of anatomy in lecture and dissection hall. The responses were collected and the data was then compiled and analysed. Results: 83.72% to 93.79% of students believed in the usefulness of humour in anatomy theory lectures in terms of increasing interest in learning Anatomy, making them less anxious in recalling the muscle attachment, concentrate better on the topic. All the students were of opinion that the use of humor created a comfortable classroom atmosphere that makes the learning experience more positive and helpful in improving rapport between student and teacher. A very low evaluation was observed that use of humour during teaching distracts attention of the students and wastage of time. Inappropriate humour related to sarcasm, mockery received 226(87.59%) evaluation. Students 203(78.68%) also emphasized the use of dark humour to cope with morbidity and stress during dissection. Ad-libbed humour was considered to be the most effective form of humour. Most students emphasized that humour worked best in a small amount i.e. 2-3 times of humorous remarks. Conclusion: Keeping in mind the effectiveness of the system of anatomy instruction it seems logical that the subject should be learned with humor. The present study confirms that most medical students support the use of humour in teaching anatomy topics.
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PYSARCHUK, OKSANA, and VOLODYMYR CHAIKA. "PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PEDAGOGICAL POTENTIAL OF HUMOUR AS A MEANS OF TEACHING AND NURTURING PRIMARY SCHOOL PUPILS." Scientific Issues of Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatiuk National Pedagogical University. Series: pedagogy 1, no. 2 (November 23, 2021): 41–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.25128/2415-3605.21.2.6.
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The relevance of the article is stipulated to the active search for qualitatively new ways to improve the efficiency of the educational process in primary school. One of them is humour as a special property of human nature. The use of elements of humour in the organization of the educational process in primary school, methods and techniques based on wit, has significant psychological and pedagogical potential and is a significant reserve for improving the effectiveness of learning, education and personality development of primary school. The application of forms of humour with pupils of primary school in work contributes to the development of personal qualities of pupils, the formation of their critical thinking, the ability to make decisions independently and creatively approach any business. The purpose of the article is to determine the psychological and pedagogical potential of humour as a means of teaching and nurturing pupils of primary school.
Various approaches to the interpretation of the essence of the concept of “humour” are analyzed in the article; the complexity of the nature of humour is grounded, which is stipulated to synthetic combinations of communicative, emotional and intellectual spheres, personal traits of a child, socio-cultural conditions of its formation. The problem of application of elements of humour during the organization of educational process in establishments of general secondary education in the context of scientific developments of known scientists (Ya. A. Komensky, A. Makarenko, V. Sukhomlinsky, Sh. Amonashvili, O. Savchenko) is investigated. The psychological and pedagogical potential of humour as a means of teaching and nurturing pupils of primary school, which provides a set of all available tools, opportunities for humor that can be used in teaching and educational process in general, and identified a set of psychological and pedagogical conditions to increase its productivity: creating an atmosphere of cooperation and trust through the skillful use of humorous methods and techniques; adequacy of humor to the peculiarities of the development of the emotional sphere of junior pupils; organic use of humor in the content of educational material. The role of the influence of humor elements on the emotional sphere of junior pupils during the organization of the educational process in primary school is substantiated. The relationship of value emotional states (interest, joy, surprise) with the mental processes of the individual (memory, will, thinking) during the use of elements of humour in primary school lessons is analyzed. The forms of humour in the life of pupils of primary school, the peculiarities of their formation and development in accordance with the age category are reflected.
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Pavić, Željko, and Nataša Krivokapić. "Humour and ex-Yugoslav nations: is there any truth in the stereotypes?" European Journal of Humour Research 8, no. 1 (April 23, 2020): 112. http://dx.doi.org/10.7592/ejhr2020.8.1.pavic.
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This study explores the issue of humour stereotyping between ex-Yugoslav nations, their veridicality and possible explanations. Three research questions were put forward relating to humour stereotyping, as well as the differences in humour production, use and appreciation between the countries. The survey data were collected on a sample of university students from four ex-Yugoslav countries (N = 611). The results revealed strong negative humour stereotyping toward Croats and Slovenians and positive stereotyping toward Bosnians. However, only about 0–4 % of the variance in humour production, use and appreciation, depending on the sub-scales of the Multidimensional Sense of Humor Scale, could be attributed to the group (country) membership, thus indicating low correspondence between the stereotypes and reality. The results concerning the stereotypes were interpreted by evoking the discourse of Balkanism, as well as humour-style differences in popular culture between the countries
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Campbell, Lorne, and Sarah Moroz. "Humour Use Between Spouses and Positive and Negative Interpersonal Behaviours During Conflict." Europe’s Journal of Psychology 10, no. 3 (August 13, 2014): 532–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v10i3.763.
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The present research investigated the relation between the use of positive, negative and instrumental humour in the context of romantic relationships and relational well-being as assessed by positive and negative patterns of conflict resolution behaviour. A sample of 116 heterosexual married couples completed scales of relational humour use as well as conflict resolution behaviour. Behaviour of couples while attempting to resolve a relationship based conflict was also coded by independent raters. Actor-Partner Interdependence Model (APIM) analyses showed patterns of actor and partner effects for each type of humour use. Specifically, positive humour use of both partners predicted more positive conflict resolution, whereas negative humour use of both partners predicted less positive conflict resolution. Additionally, instrumental humour use of both partners seemed to predict greater apathy during conflict resolution. Implications for considering couple humor use, assessed for both partners of the dyad, for understanding relational well-being are discussed.
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Drake, Aaron C., and Christopher R. Sears. "Do humour styles moderate the association between hopelessness and suicide ideation? A comparison of student and community samples." PLOS ONE 18, no. 12 (December 18, 2023): e0295995. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0295995.
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Research has found that humour styles can moderate the relationship between various facets of mental health and well-being. Most of these studies have used college student samples, however, and the generalizability of these findings has not been firmly established. This study examined how humour styles moderate the relationship between hopelessness and suicide ideation in both student and community samples. Community participants from the U.S. and Canada (n = 554) and student participants from a Canadian university (n = 208) completed several self-report measures including the Humor Styles Questionnaire. Analyses revealed differences in humour styles between the samples, as well as differences in humour styles between men and women. Regression analyses showed that self-defeating humour moderated the relationship between hopelessness and suicide ideation for student participants but not for community participants. Conversely, self-enhancing humour moderated the relationship between hopelessness and suicide ideation for community participants but not for student participants. These results suggest that high levels of self-defeating humour and self-enhancing humour may be uniquely maladaptive for these respective samples. These and other findings point to the necessity of recruiting diverse samples to better understand the beneficial and detrimental associations between humour styles and mental health. The potential to use measures of humour style as a tool to help identify at-risk individuals and to inform the development of intervention programs is discussed.
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Goldberg, Brenda. "A Genealogy of the Ridiculous: From 'Humours' to Humour." Outlines. Critical Practice Studies 1, no. 1 (November 18, 1999): 59–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/ocps.v1i1.3845.
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We tend to take the phenomenon of humour for granted, seeing it for the most part as something innately and fundamentally human. However we might go even further than this, and say that the phenomenon of humour is perceived as an essential part of what makes us human. In this respect, philosophers and theorists as wide apart as Aristotle and the French, feminist Julia Kristeva (1980; also see Goldberg, 1999a) have regarded a baby's ability to laugh as one of the earliest signs of the separation of 'self' from 'other', a reciprocal process deemed to be crucial to the formation of a separate identity. However, although the general importance of humour might be agreed amongst researchers, what theoretical position one takes will have a profound effect on how one approaches and analyses humour. In much psychological research the focus tends to be on how humour works, i.e., syntax, semantic categories, sex differences, personality types, etc., and one finds a frustrating neglect of what is actually meant by the term 'humour' in terms of history and emergences. Consequently, an important question tends to go unchallenged: Is humour some unproblematic innate human ability, or, a socially defined concept that has changed and mutated alongside our understanding of what is means to be person? In an attempt to grapple with this question, the following genealogical account is less concerned with fathoming out how humour works than with relating it to notions of human subjectivity, or how theories of humor have informed and reflected social constructs of what it means to be a 'subject'.
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Danasaputra, Iim Rogayah, Nike Puspita Wanodyatama, and Greenetia Greenetia. "Analisis Penggunaan Humor dalam Filem Werewolf." Jurnal SORA - Pernik Studi Bahasa Asing 7, no. 2 (December 12, 2023): 95. http://dx.doi.org/10.58359/jurnal_sora.v7i2.102.
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The paper entitled Analysis of Humour used in Werewolf. This research aimed to find out types, functions, and meaning of humour usage in the film. The method used was deductive method and technique of collecting data consisted of browsing internet, literary study and film. The result shows that both of the film used the types, function and meaning of humour. The difference lies on the number of each category. For the types of humor in the film Werewolf, there are 60% satire and 40% self-deprecation. In terms of the functions of humor used in film, namely to entertain listeners so they have positive energy, joke to help people who are experiencing mental health problems, and make people around them feel comfortable because people who like humor are friendly and welcoming. For the humorous meaning of every utterance and action carried out, namely using connotative and denotative meaning, in the Werewolf film it was found that 69% contained connotative meaning and 31% denotative.
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Šeduikienė, M., and V. Matonis. "Humour in the management of multiple sclerosis: a scoping review." Neurologijos seminarai 27, no. 95 (November 8, 2023): 22–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.29014/ns.2023.27.3.
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Background. Although investigations of the use of humour in the management of people with multiple sclerosis (PwMS) are not numerous, some significant findings have created the need to go deeper into the topic.Main research question. What are some of the potential benefits of humour in the management of PwMS, given the current state of scientific knowledge?Materials and methods. A scoping review was conducted using the PRISMA-ScR methodology. Information for the literature review was collected from the PubMed and Embase databases using the keywords “humour” and “multiple sclerosis”. Overall, 10 scientific investigations were analysed, grouped, interpreted, and generalized.Results. The research revealed: humour-based stress reduction for PwMS; the relationship between executive function and humour coping in PwMS; the distinctive influence of humour on employment status among individuals with relapsing-remiting multiple sclerosis (RRMS); the relationship between humour and personal long-term prognosis in PwMS; and the differences in perception of humour in PwMS.Conclusions. Appropriate use of humour (among other factors) can significantly improve the neuropsychological status in persons with RRMS and help them staying employed. Executive function and personalized long-term prognosis for PwMS are to some extent related to humor. Group analyses revealed lower scores in RRMS patients on humoristic visual tasks compared to scores on verbal tasks, and PwMS had impaired comprehension of figurative and humorous items compared to their comprehension of the literal items of simple medical responses.
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Bhattacharyya, Pratishtha, Lalatendu Kesari Jena, and Sajeet Pradhan. "Resilience as a Mediator Between Workplace Humour and Well-being at Work: An Enquiry on the Healthcare Professionals." Journal of Health Management 21, no. 1 (January 22, 2019): 160–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0972063418821815.
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Humour is considered as a crucial job resource for healthcare professionals. It has been further credited for several positive outcomes such as resilience and well-being. This study investigated: (a) the mediating role of resilience between adaptive humours styles (self-enhancing and affiliative) and well-being at work and (b) the moderating role of self-esteem in the indirect relationship between the adaptive humour styles and well-being at work via resilience. The study was conducted on a sample of 354 healthcare professionals. The findings of the study indicate a significant association between the adaptive humour styles and well-being at work with resilience as a mediator. Furthermore, self-esteem was found to significantly moderate the indirect relationship between self-enhancing humour and well-being at work via resilience.
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Sheehan, Tanya. "Photography Performing Humor and Photography and Humour." History of Photography 43, no. 3 (July 3, 2019): 338–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03087298.2020.1732070.
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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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KARAHİSAR, Tüba. "TRANSFORMATION FROM HUMOUR MAGAZINES TO SHARED HUMOUR: HUMOUR IN INTERNET." Turkish Online Journal of Design, Art and Communication 5, no. 1 (January 1, 2015): 76–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.7456/10501100/007.
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Sousa, Alcina, Aline Bazenga, and Luisa Marinho Antunes. "Crosscultural humour: "Humour that divides; humour that unites". An introduction." Journal of Linguistic and Intercultural Education 2, no. 2 (December 15, 2009): 9–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.29302/jolie.2009.2.2.1.
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Masruroh, Dewi, Eka Misbahatul M.Has, and Rista Fauziningtyas. "Pengaruh Terapi Humor dengan Media Film Komedi terhadap Penurunan Tekanan Darah Pada Lansia Dengan Hipertensi." Indonesian Journal of Community Health Nursing 4, no. 1 (August 1, 2019): 29. http://dx.doi.org/10.20473/ijchn.v4i1.12496.
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Introduction: Hypertension or high blood pressure often occur without symptoms, so called the silent killer. Based on these problems, humour therapy can be used to reduce the incidence of hypertension and decrease blood pressure at low cost, easily done. Humour therapy most economical to fight against hypertension. Humour therapy also stimulates endorphins hormone. Endorphins stimulate relaxes tense muscles, blood vessels dilate to accelerate the flow of blood the body. This study was aimed to determine the effectiveness of humour therapy in decreasing blood pressure in elderly with hypertension.Method: Design study that used is quasi-experiment pretest-posttest with control group design. The sample used amounted to fifty-three respondents to the intervention group by random sampling. The instrument used sphygmomanometer. Independent variable was humour therapy by using comedy film, and dependent variable was blood pressure. Data analysed by Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test and Kolmogorov Smirnov with significant value p=0.05. Result: Statistical tests of Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test on treatment group showed p-value systole 0.000 and p-value diastole 0.002. Kolmogorov Smirnov test showed the result p-value systole 0.000 and p-value diastole 0.815, which means there was change of systole blood pressure level before and after humour therapy by using comedy film.Conclusion: Humor Therapy affects decreased in systolic blood pressure in the elderly with hypertension. humour therapy can be used as an alternative choice to reduce the incidence of hypertension
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Kowalczyk, Adam. "Czarny humor w twórczości Władysława Szlengla ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem wiersza „Mała stacja Treblinki”." Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis | Studia Historicolitteraria 15 (December 13, 2017): 121–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.24917/3927.
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Black humor in Władysław Szlengel works, with particular focus on Mała stacja Treblinki (A small station called Treblinki) Władysław Szlengel (1914–1943), was a Jewish poet writing in Polish. His works are the best example of the use of black humor in Polish poetry of World War II. War caused him to change his worldview, which is reflected in the change of humor in his works. The shift was so powerful that in fact Szlengel-commentator replaced Szlengel-satirist. He did not hesitate to use the sharpest irony both against his enemies and against other victims of the system. His poem A Small Station Called Treblinki is the most shocking instance of black humor.Key words: Władyslaw Szlengel; black humour; holocaust; humour; risus sardonicus;
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Takovski, Aleksandar. "Lubricating culture awareness and critical thinking through humour." European Journal of Humour Research 9, no. 4 (December 30, 2021): 1–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.7592/ejhr2021.9.4.535.
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There is an ample evidence supporting the benefits of instructional humour, among which increased attention and interest, information retention and learning speed, more productive learning environment, a more positive image of the instructor, more efficient acquisition of linguistic and cultural competencies, an increased conversational involvement, enhanced cultural awareness and more stimulated critical thinking. However, most of the research findings rely on what is termed appropriate humor such as puns, jokes, anecdotes and alike, while potentially offensive humour that relates to sexual, ethnic, religious, political identity is generally labeled inappropriate and advised to be avoided in the classroom environment. It is in this particular context that this study seeks to test the potential of such humour, sexual and ethnic in particular, to act as a tool of increasing cultural awareness and stimulate critical thinking among university students. To do so, the study relies on an experimental class design combining few in-class and extracurricular activities created by using sexual and ethnic humour samples.
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Tomas, François. "Carto-humeur, Carto-humour : "À propos de paysage"." Mappemonde 13, no. 1 (1989): 42. http://dx.doi.org/10.3406/mappe.1989.2493.
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Moran, Leslie J. "The wit of Judge Rinder: judges, humour and popular culture." Oñati Socio-legal Series 9, no. 9(5) (April 16, 2019): 771–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1036.
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Judge Rinder is a British reality TV court show. It has much in common with the US archetype Judge Judy. But there are differences. One is Judge Rinder’s humour, and more specifically his wit. Using a research database of Judge Rinder cases. The article examines the nature and effects of humour in this courtroom setting. It explores the role of the judge, the form the humour takes and the interactions and social relations it generates. A distinctive feature of the analysis is consideration of the impact of the audio-visual technologies, and the techniques and conventions developed around them, upon the interactions and social relations the onscreen humour generates with viewers. While the camera aligns the screen audience with the judge and the laughter track infects the audience with emotion the judge generates, the paper cautions against assuming that all viewers have the same emotional experience. Judge Rinder es un reality show judicial británico. Tiene mucho en común con el arquetipo de Judge Judy, de EEUU; pero hay diferencias. Una consiste en el humor del juez Rinder, y, más en concreto, en su ingenio. Utilizando una base de datos de investigación de los casos de Judge Rinder, el artículo analiza la naturaleza y los efectos del humor en ese escenario judicial. Explora el rol del juez, la forma que adquiere el humor y las interacciones y relaciones sociales que éste genera. Una característica distintiva del análisis es la consideración del impacto de las tecnologías audiovisuales, y de las técnicas y convenciones desarrolladas alrededor de aquéllas, sobre las interacciones y las relaciones sociales que el humor televisivo genera en los espectadores. Mientras la cámara alinea a la audiencia con el juez y la risa contagia a la audiencia la emoción generada por el juez, el artículo advierte contra la deducción de que todos los espectadores experimentan una misma emoción.
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Wnuk, Agnieszka. "Postmodern world vision? – the grotesque and black humour in postmodern Polish prose." Tekstualia 4, no. 39 (September 1, 2014): 43–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0013.4488.
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The article considers black humour as an important element of postmodern culture. The term is defi ned as a variety of humour which mocks society, taboo, illness, death, and is linked with pure nonsense and the grotesque. In the article, black humor is analyzed on the example of such Polish writers as Jerzy Pilch, Krzysztof Varga, Wojciech Stamm and Paweł Goźliński, who use it as a way to express postmodern world vision as an ambiguous and dangerous labyrinth.
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Hurvy, Daniel. "Humour." Le Carnet PSY 207, no. 4 (2017): 12. http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/lcp.207.0012.
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Larose, Robert, and Denys Lessard. "Humour." Meta: Journal des traducteurs 30, no. 4 (1985): 405. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/003479ar.
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Benson, P. J., and D. I. Perrett. "Humour." Perception 20, no. 2 (April 1991): 279. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/p200279.
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Chesterton, G. K. "Humour." Chesterton Review 46, no. 1 (2020): 33–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/chesterton2020461/25.
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Hœrni, Bernard. "Humour." Revue Médicale Suisse 1, no. 21 (2005): 1472. http://dx.doi.org/10.53738/revmed.2005.1.21.1472.
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Wulandari, Rany Agustin, and Hamidah Retno Wardani. "The Effect of Humor as a Stress Management for Nurses Working in Hospital: Systematic review." D'Nursing and Health Journal (DNHJ) 3, no. 1 (March 31, 2022): 55–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.36835/dnursing.v3i1.378.
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Introduction : Nurses are one of the health workers who provide health services who encounter various conditions that can cause stress. Nurses who feel the stress certainly have an impact on the quality of health service that they are giving, therefore the stress management to overcome the stress is needed. One of the stress management that is cheap and accessible for nurses anywhere and anytime is humor. Method: This study uses a systematic review method. Result: Humor is a way that can change the psychological condition of individuals. Ways of this humor therapy is smiling and laughing. Nurses can smile and laugh by reading comics, joking, watching comedy filmsand or can be in the form of a fictional story told by a friend who is considered funny, and so on. In this study, the nurses believed that humour provides an opportunity for change. In relation to this, the results showed that the consequences of humour can range from revival to exhaustion. In addition to enabling mental rest, humour helps change patients’ perspectives regarding their health condition. Conclusion: Stress conditions experienced by nurses arise due to workload and so on. This will have an impact on nursing care services that will be provided to patients in the hospital. Humor is one of the most effective stress management tools to reduce stress. Humor that nurses do is just enough to smile and laugh, of course this method is very easy to do and does not require expensive costs.
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Alexe, Diana, Elena Bălan, and Mihaela Rus. "The relationship between stress and the use of humour as a coping mechanism in nurses." „Black Sea” Journal of Psychology 14, no. 4 (January 27, 2024): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.47577/bspsychology.bsjop.v14i4.260.
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The present study focuses on the occupational health of nurses, investigating the relationship between dimensions of occupational burnout and the use of coping mechanisms through humor. To conduct the research, we used standardized assessment instruments to measure dimensions of occupational burnout and investigated how nurses resort to coping mechanisms through humor using the questionnaire method. Our results revealed significant correlations between certain dimensions of burnout and the use of coping mechanisms through humor. Mental detachment was positively associated with heavy use of humor as a coping strategy, indicating that nurses experiencing increased emotional exhaustion tend to turn more often to humor to cope with professional stress. This finding suggests that humour may play an important role in counteracting burnout. This research adds significantly to our understanding of nurses' occupational health and suggests that interventions focused on promoting the adaptive use of humour may be effective in reducing emotional exhaustion in this important profession.
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Al Arief, Yusuf. "The Use of Linguistic jokes in EFL Classroom." JETAL: Journal of English Teaching & Applied Linguistic 4, no. 2 (April 17, 2023): 75–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.36655/jetal.v4i2.1000.
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Humor is widely recognized as an effective method for promoting language acquisition and enhancing language skills. Using humor in language training can help students feel more at ease, reduce tension, and encourage good emotions, all of which have a favorable effect on their motivation and engagement. In language-learning environments, linguistic jokes are one sort of humor that has not been well investigated. This study uses descriptive qualitative methodologies to investigate the advantages of linguistic jokes in the English as a foreign language (EFL) classroom. Data were gathered for the study from interviews, focus groups, and classroom observations involving EFL students. The results show that language learners gain from using linguistic jokes in EFL classes in several ways, including greater motivation, increased engagement, improved communication skills, and decreased anxiety. The study also emphasizes how humour can improve the learning environment by encouraging greater participation and a sense of belonging among students. The qualitative data show that learners have good attitudes toward using humour in language acquisition, which lends credence to these findings. The study proposes that EFL teachers utilize humour as a teaching method to facilitate language learning and develop language skills. It also finds that including linguistic jokes in EFL classrooms can benefit language learners in various ways.
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Buiting, Hilde M., Remco de Bree, Linda Brom, Jennifer W. Mack, and Michiel van den Brekel. "Adding shared laughter to optimise shared medicine." Journal of Clinical Oncology 36, no. 34_suppl (December 1, 2018): 43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1200/jco.2018.36.34_suppl.43.
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43 Background: Most people are familiar with the expression "laughter is the best medicine". By triggering endorphin release and strengthening relationships, it can be considered a perfect holistic care-approach. We explored the occurrence, acceptability, and functions of humor and laughter in patients with incurable cancer. Methods: We performed 16 in-depth interviews with patients with incurable cancer at the day-care unit of a Dutch comprehensive cancer hospital. We further performed and online questionnaire-study among 33 oncologists (41% of 81 approached) about experiences with humour and laughter in breast, lung, head and neck, or urological cancer. Results: Nearly all oncologists reported using humour (97%), and all reported to sometimes laugh during consultations; 83% reported experiencing a positive effect of laughter. These results were in line with patients’ experiences: Patients noted that humor always stayed alive, despite having incurable cancer. Apart from this human aspect, patients also used humor to broach difficult topics and to downplay challenges. Some patients explicated that the appreciation of humor was dependent on the type of humor, since humor is rather personal. Patients and oncologists acknowledged that using humor is delicate, and sometimes inappropriate, partly because they did not always share the same type of humor. Laughter, in contrast, was regarded as ‘lighter’ than humor, and could, accordingly, more easily be implemented. However, both patients and specialists cautioned against patients using laughter to avoid uncertainty or broach difficult topics. Conclusions: Our results suggest that patients and healthcare professionals can benefit from humour or laughter. Many conversations were joyful, even in the midst of medical challenges. Although humor is personal, laughter can be applied more easily. Healthcare professionals therefore need to have a basic comprehension of the impact of laughter to facilitate discussions, improve the doctor-patient relationship, and identify underlying wishes. If applied appropriately, shared laughter will possibly add to optimise shared medicine.
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Fernández Sánchez, Carmen. "Sobre el concepto de humor en literatura." Estudios Humanísticos. Filología, no. 10 (December 1, 1988): 213. http://dx.doi.org/10.18002/ehf.v0i10.4353.
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<p>En este artículo, se repasan otros trabajos sobre el humor para poner de relieve la dificultad de encontrar una definición y las diversas perspectivas desde las que se ha abordado este concepto que han dado origen a definiciones muy variadas y a veces contradictorias. Sin embargo, el factor común a todas las definiciones es que el humor aparece ligado al temperamento o personalidad del humorista, hasta el punto de ser considerado una visión del mundo. Inseparable del concepto de autor, se propone en este artículo la utilización de la palabra humor en los estudios literarios sustituyendo al concepto de lo cómico, para insistir sobre el procedimiento consciente mediante el cual un narrador crea efectos cómicos, ordena su narración y un autor expresa su posición ante la obra y el mundo.</p><p>In this article, other studies dealing with humour are examined in order to bring out the difficulty involved in defining this concept and the various perspectives from which it has been considered. The definitions given have been diverse and at times contradictory. However, the point they all share is that humour is closely linked to the personality of the writer, to the extent of being considered a type of Weltanschauung. As the concepts of humour and writer are inseparable, this article is an attempt to use humour in literary studies in substitution of the idea of comedy, in order to stress the conscious process by which a narrator creates comic effect, lays out his narrative, and an author expresses his view point regarding his work and the world.</p>
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Teng-Calleja, Mendiola, Cristina Jayme Montiel, and Marshaley Jaum Baquiano. "Humour in Power-Differentiated Intergroup Wage Negotiation." Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology 9, no. 1 (April 23, 2015): 15–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/prp.2015.2.
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This research examined the role of humour in power-differentiated wage bargaining conversations. We collected transcripts of wage bargaining between the local labour union and management negotiators of a multinational beverage company operating in the Philippines. Through conversation analysis, we determined how both parties utilised humor to challenge or maintain power relations even as both labour and management worked towards a wage bargaining agreement. Findings show that humour was used to maintain intergroup harmony, subvert authority and control the negotiation. Our findings may be useful for labour organisations and multinational corporations that operate in Southeast Asian countries with historically tumultuous labour relations such as the Philippines. Studies have shown how humour can play a significant role in various social interactions, such as business meetings (Rogerson-Revell, 2007), conversations between friends (Hay, 2000) and co-workers (Holmes, 2000), problem solving (Dunbar, Banas, Rodriguez, Liu, & Abra, 2012), conflict negotiations (Maemura & Horita, 2012) and price haggling (O’Quin & Aronoff, 1981). We note, however, that humour analysis rarely considers asymmetric features of social interactions occurring within the context of negotiation.
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Corduas, Marcella, Salvatore Attardo, and Alyson Eggleston. "The distribution of humour in literary texts is not random: a statistical analysis." Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics 17, no. 3 (August 2008): 253–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963947008092505.
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The article presents statistical evidence for the claim that the distribution of humor in Oscar Wilde's Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Douglas Adams's The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy is not random and differs significantly between both texts. Using the methodology of the General Theory of Verbal Humor, all the instances of humour in both texts were identified and recorded. The distance between each instance was then calculated and subjected to analysis. The statistical model used to prove the hypotheses is explained in some detail and some hypotheses to explain the findings are presented. The significance of the finding that the distribution of humour in long texts is not random is found to lie in having introduced a new fact in need of explanation through literary theories.
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Sánchez González, Jorge Juan. "Humor, ironía y sarcasmo en las redes sociales: creación léxica a partir del formante grecolatino -itis." Revista de Investigación Lingüística 25 (December 31, 2022): 259–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.6018/ril.482871.
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This research addresses humour as a pragmatic and social phenomenon. It seeks to demonstrate how a Greek-Latin morpheme is used to build a humorous pattern in colloquial language. To this end, the object of study is first identified and then related to other similar concepts (irony, sarcasm, impoliteness). Next, a brief description is provided of a frequent suffix in the field of science and which speakers may also adopt as a strategy to develop humour. Finally, The General Theory of Verbal Humour is applied to the corpus compiled, comprising 157 tweets. The pragmatic analysis of the five most representative texts published on Twitter is then presented. Esta investigación pretende estudiar el humor como fenómeno pragmático y social. Dicho objetivo busca demostrar la utilización de un formante de origen grecolatino en la constitución de un patrón humorístico que se desarrolla en el lenguaje coloquial. Para ello, se delimitará el objeto de análisis y se pondrá en relación con otros conceptos afines: ironía, sarcasmoy descortesía. Se trazará una breve descripción de un sufijo frecuente en el ámbito de la ciencia y que los hablantes adoptan como estrategia generadora de humor. Por último, se aplicará la Teoría General del Humor Verbal a los 157 tuits que configuran el corpus elaborado. Se expondrá el análisis pragmático de los cinco textos más representativos publicados en la red social Twitter.
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Dorkin, Andrew. "Humouring Futurity: Avant-Garde Poetry for Children?" CounterText 7, no. 3 (December 2021): 350–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/count.2021.0241.
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This essay humours the possibility of a kinder-garde, in which poets humour children so that children might humour poetry's futurity. I propose humouring as a critical approach premised on a compliant tension with a text, a subversive toleration that undermines ‘aetonormative’ seriousness and upholds ‘childish’ humour as valuable play-with-value. The Kindergarde anthology (ed. Dana Teen Lomax 2013 ) claims to translate avant-gardism for a child audience, linking its experimental poems to the experimentation of children's play. Using carnivalisation, détournement, defamiliarisation, and other forms of what Ryan Fitzpatrick and Jonathan Ball term ‘experimentation-with-humour’, Kindergarde constructs inclusive spaces for humoured subversion, in which children can sidestep oppressive adult normativity. The child's humoured humouring of adult power is discussed here by re-reading children's literature's ‘impossible relation’ (after Jacqueline Rose) in terms of Michel Serres’ ‘parasite’, Judy Little's feminist ‘humouring’ of male language, and Lee Edelman's queering of ‘reproductive futurism.’ Asserting that it is the condition of twenty-first-century poetry to be humoured – as a ‘minor literature’ (Deleuze and Guattari) with a ‘minor attitude’ (Georges Bataille) – my humouring of the Kindergarde builds toward a post-literary vision of the kinder-gardist as futurity-humourist.
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Ahmed, S. "42. The psychoneuroimmunophysiological responses to incongruous actions or statements/prevarications made for the purpose of eliciting rhythmic, spasmodic expiratory reflexes." Clinical & Investigative Medicine 30, no. 4 (August 1, 2007): 49. http://dx.doi.org/10.25011/cim.v30i4.2802.
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Although humans know instinctually that humour has healing powers, an understanding of the precise effects of humour and laughter had been largely unknown until the twentieth Century, due to the lack of technology. Not all of the barriers to research have been removed – it is still not possible to know “how much” good humour a person has or is experiencing – but there have been significant discoveries that help to prove that while laughter may not be the best medicine, it certainly helps the medicine go down.
The understanding of humour has come in four distinct areas, and in periods that reflect the available technologies. With the discovery of laughing diseases, interest in humour drove Harry Paskind in 1932 to create a new machine to study muscle tone during good humour. From the 1950s to 1970s, the neurology of laughter was researched, accompanying further research into the pathology of laughter after an epidemic of laughter in Uganda from 1962-64. After this came the study of the immunology and the discovery that laughter fights cancer, with the champion of laughter research, William Fry, dedicating a decade from 1969-79 to this work. Finally came research on the indisputable effect of laughter – its healthy effects on human psychology. Thanks, in part, to this research, and also supporting it, the past forty years have seen men like Norman Cousins and Hunter “Patch” Adams bring humour into mainstream healthcare. This research provides doctors an opportunity both now and in the future, as we learn even more about humour, to bring a softer face to medicine and truly give patients something to smile about.
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Taufiq, Rizal. "Stereotypical humour in the sitcom "Will and Grace"." LITERA 22, no. 3 (November 23, 2023): 255–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.21831/ltr.v22i3.65469.
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Stereotypes have often been associated with negative outcomes such as discrimination, prejudice, and bias. Nonetheless, this study investigates the potential for humour within stereotypical discourse in a sitcom. Through an analysis of humorous language used in sitcom, this research aims to uncover ways in which stereotypical utterances might bring about laughter as an outcome. Using the data from seven U.S. sitcom Will and Grace episodes throughout the eighth season, I generated the data from the show's transcript. I analysed how two characters, a white American woman and her maid, communicate with each other with a content analysis approach to categorize the different themes of humour presented in the seven chosen episodes. To determine of what is considered to be humorous utterances, I used the audience's laughter as the marker (Messerli 2016). The research demonstrated that the use of stereotypical humor involves exploiting the preconceived notions about another party's country of origin, physical appearance, and cognitive capacity. Further, my findings showed that an individual with higher power often performed stereotypical humour towards that with less power, while Holmes et al. (2003) saw humour as a linguistic technique for people who lacked power to establish a favourable image of themselves by challenging authority. Ultimately, this research promises to advance our understanding of the complex relationship between humour, stereotyping, and societal attitudes.
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Vienne-Guerrin, Nathalie. "“A jest with a sad brow”: Shakespeare’s ambivalent insults." University of Bucharest Review Literary and Cultural Studies Series 13, no. 1 (October 20, 2023): 5–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.31178/ubr.13.1.1.
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Shakespeare’s insults are ambivalent creatures that oscillate between humour and pathos. That is what this article aims to show. It focuses on the part insults play in the articulation of humour and pathos in Shakespeare’s plays, Falstaff and his reference to “a jest with a sad brow” appearing as a case in point. Through examples taken from Much Ado About Nothing, Love’s Labour’s Lost, King Henry IV, Hamlet, Othello, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the article explores how insults and moments of insult convey the complex and fragile balance between humour and pathos. It shows that Shakespeare’s theatre of insult is based on the tension between laughter and tears, between the ludic and the serious modes or humours of insult, at a time when the word ‘humour’ was mainly conceived in the plural and still referred to fluid(s) rather than wit. This article first analyses how Shakespeare’s plays reveal a breach between humour and pathos by dramatizing, on the one hand what is called “skirmish[es] of wit” in Much Ado About Nothing, and, on the other hand, what is called “heart-struck injuries” in King Lear. After dissociating comic and tragic insults, the article then shows how Shakespeare cultivates moments of insult when the spectators do not know whether they should laugh or cry, moments when insults waver between humour and pathos, between mirth-making and grief-making, moments in which insults hurt even when they are supposed to be humorous. This ambivalence is related to the ambivalence that is at the heart of the way the tongue is represented in Shakespeare’s world which points to its essential volatility, unpredictability and instability.