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Journal articles on the topic "Maltese wit and humor"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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In this study, the relationship between individuals’ insecure attachment styles and eight comic styles was explored. A sample of 636 Italian adults (206 males, 428 females, 2 non-binary), aged 18 to 81 years (M = 41.44; DS = 13.44) completed an online survey to investigate the relationship between insecure attachment styles, namely anxious and avoidant, and the eight comic styles, clustered into lighter style (fun, benevolent humor, wit, nonsense) and darker style (irony, satire, sarcasm, cynicism). The findings of this research indicated the lighter and darker styles were differently related to the anxious and avoidant styles. The anxious attachment was negatively related to both benevolent humor and wit and positively with irony. The avoidant style was positively associated with nonsense and sarcasm, while no other relationship emerged. This research indicated that attachment orientations are associated with individual differences in the detailed differentiation of humor-related styles.
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Schuman, Boaz Faraday. "Scholastic Humor." History of Philosophy Quarterly 39, no. 2 (April 1, 2022): 113–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/21521026.39.2.02.

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Abstract Scholastic philosophers can be quite funny. What's more, they have good reason to be: Aristotle himself lists ready wit (eutrapelia) among the virtues, as a mean between excessive humor and its defect. Here, I assess Scholastic discussions of humor in theory, before turning to examples of it in practice. The last and finest of these is a joke, hitherto unacknowledged, which Aquinas makes in his famous Five Ways. Along the way, we'll see (i) that the history of philosophy is not so hostile to humor as is commonly supposed; and (ii) that the competing theories of humor like the Incongruity Theory and the Release Theory are not altogether incompatible. We'll also see at least one example of an apparent attempt by modern translators to excise humor from a medieval text. Our considerations will open a window into what oral discussion and debate at medieval universities was actually like, and how we should understand the relationship between the texts we have now and the exchanges that actually occurred then.
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Caillouet, Ruth R. "Everything I Need to Know about Teaching I Learned from Beowulf." English Journal 98, no. 1 (September 1, 2008): 42–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.58680/ej20086724.

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

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

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University, 2009.
Title from dissertation title page (viewed May 5, 2009). Includes abstract. "Dissertation presented to the Faculty of the Brite Divinity School in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Biblical Interpretation." Includes bibliographical references.
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Reff, Robert Charles. "Developing the humor styles questionnaire-revised : a review of the current humor literature and a revised measure." Online access for everyone, 2006. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Dissertations/Summer2006/r%5Freff%5F051706.pdf.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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In the psychological literature little has been written about the use of humor in therapy. Especially lacking is empirical data regarding the topic. In the current study I investigated the relationship between a personality characteristic, sense of humor, and the amount of humor used by a therapist in a mock therapy session. A 2 x 3 factorial design was implemented with participant's sense of humor and the amount of humor used by the therapist being the independent variables. I hypothesized that a moderate amount of humor would result in more positive ratings of the therapist than either the low or high humor conditions. I also hypothesized that participants who had a greater sense of humor would rate the therapist more positively. Results revealed a partial confirmation of the hypotheses. The greatest amount of humor used by the therapist resulted in decreased ratings of the therapist for a measure of appropriateness of humor and a measure of warmth and empathy. Also, the therapist who used the most humor was rated significantly less rigid and dull than the therapist who used no humor. Suggestions forfuture research in the area are given.
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Weller, Keith H. "The use of humor in preaching." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1997. http://www.tren.com.

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Franklyn, Blair Scott. "Towards a Theory of Postmodern Humour: South Park as carnivalesque postmodern narrative impulse." The University of Waikato, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10289/2252.

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The philosopher Martin Heidegger describes humour as a response to human 'thrownness' in the world. This thesis argues that there is a form of humour which can be usefully described as postmodern humour and that postmodern humour reflects the experience of being 'thrown' into postmodernity. Postmodern humour responds to and references the fears, fixations, frameworks and technologies which underpin our postmodern existence. It is further contended that South Park is an example of postmodern humour in the way that it exhibits a carnivalesque postmodern narrative impulse which attacks the meta-narrative style explanations of contemporary events, trends and fashions offered in the popular media. South Park's carnivalesque humour is a complex critique on a society in which television is a primary instrument of communication, a centre-piece to many people's lives, and a barometer of contemporary culture, while at the same time drawing attention to the fact that the medium being satirised is also used to perform the critique. A large portion of this thesis is devoted to examining and interrogating the discursive properties of humour as compared to seriousness, an endeavour which also establishes some interesting links to postmodern philosophical discourse. This can be succinctly summarized by the following: 1. Humour is a form of discourse which simultaneously refers to two frames of reference, or associative contexts. Therefore humour is a bissociative form of discourse. 2. Seriousness is a form of discourse which relies on a singular associative context. 3. The legally and socially instituted rules which govern everyday life use serious discourse as a matter of practical necessity. 4. Ambiguity, transgression and deviancy are problematic to serious discourse (and therefore the official culture in which it circulates), but conventions of humorous discourse. 5. Humorous discourse then, challenges the singularity and totality of the official discourses which govern everyday life. Subsequently, humour has been subjected to a variety of controls, most notably the 'policing the body' documented in the writings of Norbert Elias and Michel Foucault. 6. Humour can therefore be understood to function in a manner similar to Jean-Fran ois Lyotard's concept of little-narrative's, which destabilize the totality of official meta-narratives. Furthermore, this thesis proposes strong links between the oppositional practices of the medieval carnival, as outlined by Mikhail Bakhtin, and the produced-for-mass-consumption humour of South Park. However, it also demonstrates that although South Park embodies the oppositional spirit of the carnival, it lacks its fundamentally social nature, and therefore lacks its politically resistant potency. More specifically it is argued that the development and prevalence of technologies such as television, video/DVD, and the internet, allows us to access humour at any time we wish. However, this temporal freedom is contrasted by the spatial constraints inherent in these communication/media technologies. Rather than officially sanctioned times and places for carnivalesque social gatherings, today, individuals have the 'liberty' of free (private) access to carnivalesque media texts, which simultaneously help to restrict the freedom of social contact that the carnival used to afford. Further to this, it is argued that the fact that South Park, with its explicit derision of authority, is allowed to circulate through mainstream media at all, implies asymmetric conservative action on the part of officialdom. In this sense it is argued that postmodern humour such as South Park is allowed to circulate because the act of watching/consuming the programme also acts as a deterrent to actual radical activity.
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Books on the topic "Maltese wit and humor"

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Kössler-Ilg, Bertha. Kemużell: The Maltese practical joker. San Ġwann: Publishers Enterprises Group, 1995.

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Hugo, Pratt, ed. Corto Maltés. Buenos Aires: Diario Clarín, 2003.

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Horowitz, Anthony. The Falcon's Malteser. New York: Penguin USA, Inc., 2009.

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Crew, Jolly. Wit and humour. Colombo: Vijitha Yapa Publications, 2017.

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Erlich, Norman. Humor Erlich. Buenos Aires, Argentina: Zago, 1992.

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Des, MacHale, ed. Wit. Dublin: Mercier Press, 1997.

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Wiener, Henry. Wit & wisdom. Seattle, Wash: RSVP Senior News Publications, 2005.

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Des, MacHale, ed. Irish wit. Cork, Ireland: Mercier Press, 2002.

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Avner, Ziv, ed. Jewish humor. New Brunswick, U.S.A: Transaction Publishers, 1998.

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Pān̐ḍe, Rāmakumāra. Nepalese humor: Himalayan humor. Kathmandu: Muskan Prakashan, 2000.

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

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

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

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The extant literature on liquid racism has focused primarily on the rhetorical impact of humor. In this Chapter, we shift the focus to the role of metaphor as a means of conceptualization. Drawing on ideas and tools from the fields of critical discourse studies, conceptual metaphor theory and multimodal communication, we discuss how metaphorical framing can correspondingly constitute a vehicle for liquid racism, by zooming in on Greek political cartoons on the refugee ‘crisis’ in the Mediterranean Sea. To wit, we argue that, in this setting, the use of visual metaphor to refer to migrants can give rise to ambivalent evaluative imports that allow for racist undertones to enter the picture.
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Bierce, Ambrose. "Wit and Humor." In Poems of Ambrose Bierce, edited by M. E. Grenander. Oxford University Press, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oseo/instance.00244844.

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

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

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Abstract This chapter emphasizes the development and changes in Samuel Johnson’s sense of humor over time, over the course of his entire career. Johnson’s sense of humorhas a history, and it evolved according to the different contexts and experiences of his life, from his early writing for the Gentleman’s Magazine and his early poem London to the substantial works of his middle years, including the Rambler, the Idler, the Dictionary, and his Shakespeare to his lively and bracing great prose work, the Lives of the Poets. During his early career in London, Johnson was drawn, like many writers of the 1730s first starting out, to the satiric spirit of the day, but by the late 1740s and early 1750s, he began to think about satire, comedy, humor, and laughter more carefully and embraced in his writing a more mirthful sense of humor. His later writing, and particularly the Lives of the Poets, show an enabling influence of his needling conversational wit. Like most people’s sense of humor, Johnson’s sense of humor was not static.
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"Physics Envy: Quantitative Approaches to Humor Analysis." In Your Wit Is My Command. The MIT Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/12465.003.0011.

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Odebunmi, Akin, and Simeon Ajiboye. "Negotiation of Wit in Facebook Humour." In Analyzing Language and Humor in Online Communication, 20–37. IGI Global, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0338-5.ch002.

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This chapter unpacks the humorous contents of selected Facebook-based Akpos jokes which have received inadequate attention in the scholarship with respect to wit negotiation which mostly indexes the jokes. Six out of fifteen sampled jokes have been analysed with the theoretic aid of Istvan Kecskes' Socio-Cognitive Approach (SCA), aspects of the common ground theory, aspects of conversation analysis and elements of selected humour theories. The analysis shows three forms of wit negotiation: negotiation of mis-oriented twists, negotiation of dis-preference and negotiation of un-designed twists. In the respective cases, the talk initiating speakers have their logic flawed by recipient speakers, usually Akpos, and consequently get outsmarted; earlier sequentially dispreferred social choices are re-negotiated as preferred options in the light of new discursive realities; and the interactive designs or expectations of talk initiating participants receive undersigned or unexpected sequential responses in symmetrical or asymmetrical relationships. The paper argues that the joke characters' situationally adaptive orientation to apriori or emergent common ground and intention demonstrates the Akpos jokes' recontextualisation of particular Nigerian social and cultural experiences through the characters' socio-cognitive designs in the mediated encounters. It concludes that while these designs offer the relaxant effects jokes are naturally meant to yield, their negotiation mechanisms provide resources for the application of Kecskes' SCA in Facebook humour and produce sarcasm with a wing of moral lessons.
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"Does Not Compute: Why Our Machines Need A Sense of Humor." In Your Wit Is My Command. The MIT Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/12465.003.0004.

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Attardo, Salvatore. "Humor studies: a few definitions." In The Linguistics of Humor, 3–29. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198791270.003.0001.

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This chapter opens the first part of the book on humor studies (chapters 1-5). It addresses the persistent problem in humor studies of terminological definition. It explain why there has been a consensus on using the term “humor” as an umbrella term subsuming all forms of humor (joke, irony, ridicule, mockery, wit, whim, puns, etc.). It further establishes the fundamental distinction between humor, mirth, and laughter/smiling, which are respectively the stimulus, emotional response, and physical response. It further distinguishes verbal and linguistic humor and meta-humor. A section also outlines the history of the field of humor studies.
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Conference papers on the topic "Maltese wit and humor"

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

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