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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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Carbajal-Carrera, Beatriz, and Olga Sanchez-Castro. "The role of secondary incongruities in cartoon appreciation." European Journal of Humour Research 8, no. 2 (July 18, 2020): 25. http://dx.doi.org/10.7592/ejhr2020.8.2.carbajal-carrera.
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Failed humour in conversational exchanges has received increasing attention in humour research (see Bell 2015; Bell & Attardo 2010). However, tensions between what constitutes successful and failed humour have yet to be fully explored outside conversational humour. Drawing on Hay’s (2001) classification of humour stages and using a socio-cognitive approach to pragmatics to examine responses from Spanish L1 and L2 users to differing combinations of structural and content features in cartoons, the present study aims to explore what factors contribute to successful and failed responses to multimodal humour. Previous research has predominantly investigated the role of caricature as one of the prototypical features of cartoons affecting humour communication, suggesting that this feature plays an active role in the recognition of the humoristic genre (Padilla & Gironzetti 2012). Findings from the present study indicate that caricature operates not only in the recognition, but also in the understanding and appreciation stages. In particular, our results point to two other roles of caricature as a secondary incongruity and as a factor that can trigger appreciation through empathy and/or a sense of superiority. Importantly, this investigation indicates that the presence of secondary incongruities can compensate for a partial lack of understanding, highlighting the relevance that this type of incongruity has in humour appreciation.
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Fogarty, Molly, and Dely Lazarte Elliot. "The Role of Humour in the Social Care Professions: An Exploratory Study." British Journal of Social Work 50, no. 3 (March 19, 2019): 778–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcz027.
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Abstract Six social care professionals were recruited to take part in in-depth interviews that sought to explore their phenomenological experiences of humour within their place of work. Using an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) approach, the results suggest that humour serves various important functions within social care. Humour can allow social care professionals to relieve themselves of negative emotions, to avoid stress and cynicism, to achieve a sense of normality and perspective and to engage with service users. The positive impact humour appears to have upon these professionals is in keeping with the humour–health hypothesis, which posits that humour enhances well-being. However, results from this study also suggest that humour may be capable of negatively impacting well-being. Arguably, these findings highlight the need to extend the humour–health hypothesis and incorporate the negative effects humour can have upon well-being. Results also indicate that, if used appropriately, humour can be utilised to benefit work performance and service user outcomes. The findings of this research hold important implications for how humour may be understood and fostered in social care training, practice and policy.
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Macfarlane, Jan. "Positive psychology: humour and its role within mental health nursing." British Journal of Mental Health Nursing 10, no. 3 (August 2, 2021): 1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/bjmh.2021.0012.
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This is the eleventh article in a series that explores the meaning of positive psychology and the importance it has on the wellbeing of the mental health workforce. It focuses on positive psychology interventions that help to develop humour and considers how the uplifting effect of humour can be experienced through contemporary use in the field of mental health nursing. This article will connect theories of humour that link to wellbeing. It introduces the concept of positive psychology and its links with humour. Finally, it follows with the application of humour within the nursing context. The practical activities provided in the article will help the reader increase their own awareness of their own character strength of humour, observe the type of humour they use and consider ways to develop its use and transferability within their own lifestyle.
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Hugelshofer, Daniela S., Paul Kwon, Robert C. Reff, and Megan L. Olson. "Humour's role in the relation between attributional style and dysphoria." European Journal of Personality 20, no. 4 (June 2006): 325–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/per.586.
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The present study empirically investigated the role of adaptive and maladaptive components of humour in the relation between attributional style and dysphoria. Four hundred eighteen students (134 male, 282 female; 2 respondents did not indicate gender) completed questionnaires measuring attributional style, humour styles and depressive symptoms. Among men and women, higher levels of affiliative and self‐enhancing humour, and lower levels of self‐defeating humour, were each associated with fewer depressive symptoms. Additionally, higher levels of affiliative humour provided a buffer against the deleterious effects of a negative attributional style in men, but not women. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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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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Levey, Sandra, and Joseph Agius. "Humour Processing The Factors that Play a Role in Understanding Humour." Forum Lingwistyczne 6 (2019): 159–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.31261/fl.2019.06.13.
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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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Potočnik Topler, Jasna. "role of humour in tourism discourse." European Journal of Humour Research 10, no. 1 (April 14, 2022): 62–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.7592/ejhr.2022.10.1.639.
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This paper focuses on the role of humour as a persuasive tool of tourism destinations' communication and as a means of creating the destination’s image and uniqueness in tourism discourse. According to Aristotle’s appeals, humour belongs to pathos, which is - besides ethos and logos – an essential means of persuasion in successful communication. In the introductory part, the paper offers a short theoretical insight into the functions of tourism discourse and the role of humour in it, further on some examples of online promotional texts about Montenegro are analysed and discussed using discourse analysis. The results, presented in the conclusion, confirm that successful promotion can only occur through the efficient use of tourism discourse which addresses the needs of potential tourists and that humorous texts about destinations are appealing to readers. Based on the analysis, it can be established that branding of tourism destinations, products and services with elements of humour may be outstanding in positive ways, and consequently employed in promotional texts as a successful means of communication.
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Tornquist, Michelle, and Dan Chiappe. "The role of humour production and humour receptivity in perceived romantic interest." Psychology & Sexuality 11, no. 3 (September 21, 2019): 212–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19419899.2019.1668464.
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Orlov, David. "Origins of Bosnian humor and its role during the siege of Sarajevo." European Journal of Humour Research 9, no. 4 (December 30, 2021): 173–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.7592/ejhr2021.9.4.522.
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This article presents an ethnographic study of Bosnian humour during the siege of Sarajevo. The siege of Sarajevo, which followed the collapse of Yugoslavia, lasted four years. Despite the atrocities and war crimes committed against the residents of Sarajevo during this period, they are known for the spirit they demonstrated, and humour was a crucial element of this spirit. On the basis of two-month fieldwork in Sarajevo, I demonstrate how Bosnians employed humour to comment on this traumatic event, made sense of it, and coped with the experience. Although humour under extreme conditions is mainly viewed as a coping mechanism, by exploring the origins of Bosnian humour and stereotypes about Bosnians, I demonstrate that a notable humorous response to the traumatic events of the 1990s was more than a coping mechanism or just a response to this particular war. As I argue, a humorous attitude toward life in Bosnia belongs to people’s identity; it has developed historically as a response to the sufferings of a peripheral group in the region and, as a result, has become a cultural artifact belonging to Bosnians’ ethnic consciousness. In their attempt to preserve a sense of normalcy and restore dignity during the siege, Sarajevans continued to engage in their traditional humour, as doing otherwise would mean they had lost control over who they were.
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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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Dionigi, Alberto, and Carla Canestrari. "The use of humor by therapists and clients in cognitive therapy." European Journal of Humour Research 6, no. 3 (November 13, 2018): 50. http://dx.doi.org/10.7592/ejhr2018.6.3.dionigi.
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The purpose of this study was to investigate several aspects of humour in cognitive therapy. Eight first therapy sessions were examined and seven examples of humour originating from the therapists or the clients are reported: three represent examples of humour initiated by the client, while four are representative of humour initiated by the therapist. This research focuses on the use of humour in psychotherapy and provides evidence that when the clients initiated humour, the therapists responded in three different ways, namely, by aligning themselves with the client, disaligning themselves, or by using a strategy comprising both alignment and disalignment. Diversely, in cases in which the therapist initiated humour, four different forms of humour were identified (i.e. rhetorical humour, humour relating to a surrealistic meaning, role shifting and humour relating to register). In these cases, the clients always laughed, thereby signaling their support. An analysis of these cases demonstrates that humour is an easily integrated therapeutic tool which may be used to favour positive changes.
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Vuorela, Taina, Sari Alatalo, and Eeva-Liisa Oikarinen. "Playfulness in Online Marketing." International Journal of Innovation in the Digital Economy 10, no. 3 (July 2019): 24–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijide.2019070103.
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This article explores different challenges and opportunities of using humour and playfulness in online marketing. Humour has been investigated intensively in marketing, especially in advertising, yet there is little knowledge of the challenges and opportunities in online marketing faced by practitioners. This study analyses key studies conducted in the context of a unique case: a Finnish research project exploring humour as a strategic tool for companies. These studies can provide emerging insights of humour in online marketing which are relevant for practitioners: humour as a transformational appeal, individual differences related to humour appreciation, role of storytelling and playfulness in blogging and challenges related to use of humour such as credibility.
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R. Josifović-Elezović, Sanja. "WHAT CAN FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHERS LEARN FROM MULTIDISCIPLINARY HUMOUR RESEARCH." Филолог – часопис за језик књижевност и културу 12, no. 24 (December 30, 2021): 222–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.21618/fil2124222j.
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The aim of this article is to explore the advantages of the employment of humour in foreign language teaching for teachers and adult learners. How could teachers and learners in foreign language instruction benefit from improved humour awareness and developed humour competence? The paper reviews major definitions, theories, functions, and types of humour from multidisciplinary humour research, and examines the role of humour in foreign language instruction in view of important empirical findings and current requirements for foreign language speakers as stated in Common European Reference for Languages (2020). Conclusions suggest which kinds of humour should be incorporated into a contemporary foreign language classroom, and why. Further study recommendations are proposed that would allow for more effective applications of humour in modern adult foreign language education.
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Gogová, Lenka. "Representation of female identity in humour." Ars Aeterna 14, no. 1 (June 1, 2022): 36–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/aa-2022-0004.
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Abstract The article discusses humour as a form of communication and social interaction, which is not only based on sociocultural similarities, tolerance and solidarity among in-group members but also hostility or aggression towards out-group members. As humour is formed on binary oppositions, the female gender is often used as a popular “target” in humour discourse. It also represents “otherness” regarding the opposite gender and communicates social codes based on physical appearance, behaviour, or specific roles in society. Gender-stereotyping, which is used to categorize and understand the “outside” world better, is one of the most common and simplest approaches in humour discourse. The main aim of our research is to discuss the role of women and the way female identity, as a social construct, is defined and presented in humour discourse through stereotypes. More precisely, this article examines the evolution of women’s representation in the situation comedies with regards to their stereotypical portrayals and traditional social roles.
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Junça Silva, Ana, Antonio Caetano, and Rita Rueff Lopes. "A supportive climate may protect well-being from negative humour events." European Journal of Humour Research 10, no. 3 (October 11, 2022): 138–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.7592/ejhr.2022.10.3.599.
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This study investigated: (a) the mediating role of affect between humour events and well-being at work and (b) the moderating role of psychological work climate in the indirect relationship between humour events and well-being at work, via affect. The moderated mediation model was tested through a study with 93 full-time employees. We used regressions and bootstrapping analyses to test the moderated mediation model. The findings indicated a significant association between humour events and well-being at work with affect as a mediator. Moreover, psychological work climate was found to significantly moderate the indirect relationship between humour events and well-being at work via affect, such that it become stronger when individuals were in a positive psychological work climate. This paper adds considerable evidence of the relationship between humour-related events and their impact on individuals’ well-being. Psychological work climate strengthens the association between affect and well-being after humour events.
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Le, Thuy Hien. "Translating humorous literature from Vietnamese into Italian language: an empirical study of humour reception." European Journal of Humour Research 10, no. 1 (April 14, 2022): 199–217. http://dx.doi.org/10.7592/ejhr2022.10.1.615.
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The empirical study presented in this article aims to determine some of the linguistic and cultural elements that can influence the production process and the reception of humour and to verify the applicability of the General Theory of Verbal Humor (GTVH) to humorous literary translation. 60 Vietnamese and 60 Italian participants had to read and rate the level of humorousness of excerpts taken from the Vietnamese novel Số Đỏ (Vũ Trọng Phụng, 1936) and its correspondent Italian translation (Il gioco indiscreto di Xuan, 2012). By comparing their feedback, it was possible to observe that one is more likely to appreciate humour when one is not part of the categories subject to ridicule/irony/satire; and that a direct contact with the original language and culture constitutes an important role in humour understanding and appreciating. Also, a comparison between the rating that the Italian participants assigned to the official Italian translation and an alternative version allowed us to analyze the role of Language Knowledge Resource (GTVH). According to the Italian participants, although the two versions of the translation, which share the first five levels of Knowledge Resources, were remarkably similar (as predicted by the GTVH), they were dissimilar in terms of humour and in readers' preferences. I therefore argue that, although the GTVH is a useful tool for analyzing and verifying the similarity between the source and target text, it has proved to be impractical and not always reliable if we want to use it as a parameter of the translation of literary humorous texts.
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Flynn, Deborah. "Personal and social influences on the use of humour in the interactions of student nurses in UK clinical settings." British Journal of Nursing 29, no. 5 (March 12, 2020): 303–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/bjon.2020.29.5.303.
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Humour is a centuries-old phenomenon studied by many disciplines. Social and personal identity play a role in the creation, recognition, understanding, appreciation and use of humour. This study, which used interpretative phenomenological analysis to explore preregistration nursing students' experiences of the use of humour in the UK clinical setting, highlights what affects the students' use of humour. The influence of sex, age, and culture and ethnicity on the participants' use of humour with patients and healthcare staff is evidenced and explored; the influence of sex did not strictly follow traditional expectations.
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Piirman, Marit, and Katrin Saks. "Presenting and perceiving humour in Estonian tourism settings." European Journal of Humour Research 9, no. 4 (December 30, 2021): 189–208. http://dx.doi.org/10.7592/ejhr2021.9.4.580.
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Humour plays a significant role in everyday interactions. Individuals perceive humour differently and experience various emotions, from exaltation to umbrage. Therefore, providing humorous communication in customer service is challenging. The aim of this study was to investigate the perception of humour in a tourism customer service context. In the first part of the study, representatives of Estonian tourism companies were asked their opinions about using humour in communication with their clients. They provided examples of the use of humour in customer service situations, which were then evaluated by potential tourists in the second part of the study. The results of the evaluation were analysed in relation to the respondents’ sense of humour. The findings were discussed in line with the four implicatures of humour.
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Høigaard, Rune, Tommy Haugen, Bjørn T. Johansen, and Rune Giske. "Team identity in youth soccer: The role of coaches' feedback patterns and use of humour." International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching 12, no. 6 (November 2, 2017): 697–707. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1747954117738843.
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The purpose of this study was to empirically examine the relationship between coaches' communication patterns (feedback and use of humour) and team identity in youth soccer. A cross-sectional design was used and participants were 532 soccer players, aged from 13 to 20 years, taking part in a youth soccer tournament, the Sør Cup. Structural Equation Modelling based multiple regression analysis was conducted, and the findings revealed that positive/instructive feedback and coaches' use of humour were positive significant predictors of team identity. Contrary to our expectations, negative/punishment feedback was not significantly related to team identity. The findings are discussed within a social identity framework. It is concluded that positive/instructive feedback and the use of humour are elements that coaches may use to develop the team identity. However, future work is needed to further validate the scales used in this study, and to examine how the use of humour may influence the athlete and the team.
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Delaney, Heather, and Gert Kruger. "HUMOUR STYLES AS MEDIATORS BETWEEN SELF-ESTEEM AND LONELINESS." Psychological Thought 15, no. 2 (October 30, 2022): 95–113. http://dx.doi.org/10.37708/psyct.v15i2.679.
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This study investigated whether the different humour styles mediate the relationship between self-esteem and loneliness. A sample of 689 undergraduate students completed self-report measures of self-esteem, humour styles and loneliness. Previous research (Cacioppo Patrick, 2009) indicates an inverse relationship between self-esteem and loneliness and factors within the social environment have been argued to play a role in this relationship. Humour styles used in social interactions have been found to be associated with different levels of self-esteem and loneliness. Significant specific indirect mediation effects were found for all four humour styles. The interpersonally beneficial humour styles contributed to lower perceived loneliness, whereas use of the interpersonally detrimental humour styles resulted in higher experiences of loneliness. The results are discussed in terms of the individual and social consequences of the humour styles.
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Bendi, Merouan. "Hybrid humour as cultural translation: The example of Beur humour." European Journal of Humour Research 7, no. 2 (July 28, 2019): 87. http://dx.doi.org/10.7592/ejhr2019.7.2.bendi.
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Humour is a phenomenon that is pervasive in the human heritage in all its different ethnic and cultural diversity; however, humorous effects might exceed the mere pleasure or laughter to serve as a strategy of survival. Hybrid humour has an important societal role in breaking psychological barriers between people as well as in denouncing dominant discourses, criticizing realities and promoting resistance. This paper investigates hybrid humour as cultural translation, particularly Beur verbal humour in France. The first section of this paper explores the notion of cultural translation. In the second section, in order to conceptualize humour from different angles, I attempt to highlight the main theories in Humour Studies. The third part is devoted to investigate the hybridization of cultures from a postcolonial perspective, and subsequently interpret the notion of hybrid humour as a translational act. Finally, I analyze a set of hybrid jokes made by the Franco-Algerian humourist Fellag.
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Simmons-Mackie, Nina, and Misty Schultz. "The role of humour in therapy for aphasia." Aphasiology 17, no. 8 (January 2003): 751–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02687030344000229.
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Mesmer-Magnus, Jessica, Rebecca Guidice, Martha Andrews, and Robert Oechslin. "The effects of supervisor humour on employee attitudes." Journal of Management Development 37, no. 9/10 (November 12, 2018): 697–710. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jmd-01-2018-0034.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how employees’ perceptions of their supervisor’s use of four types of humour relate to employee job satisfaction, organisational pride, organisational commitment and self-esteem. Supervisor favourability is also examined as a mediating variable in these relationships. Design/methodology/approach An online survey of 216 working individuals provided data on the effect of supervisor use of humour on employee attitudes. Findings Perceptions of positive forms of humour (affiliative and self-enhancing) positively related to employee various attitudes, while aggressive humour was negatively associated with those attitudes. Results also support the intervening role of supervisor favourability in the relationship between supervisors’ positive use of humour and employees’ job satisfaction, affective commitment and organisational pride. Research limitations/implications Studies of the effects of workplace humour can benefit from using more fine-grained operationalisation of positive and negative humour. Research can also benefit from considerations of intervening mechanisms to the humour–work outcome relationship. Practical implications The results underscore the benefits of affiliative and self-enhancing humour on employee attitudes in the workplace. While negative humour can have an undesirable effect, there may be circumstances under which self-defeating humour is not negatively received. Originality/value This paper fulfils an identified need to better understand supervisors’ use of different, more discriminating forms of humour on employee attitudes.
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Pabel, Anja, and Philip L. Pearce. "Developing the humour repertoire concept to guide future tourism-humour research." European Journal of Humour Research 7, no. 3 (November 22, 2019): 120. http://dx.doi.org/10.7592/ejhr2019.7.3.pearce2.
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The central interest in this study is to develop and position the humour repertoire concept for tourism and leisure research. The term humour repertoire encompasses the totality of a person’s abilities and skills to both appreciate and produce humour. Such skills include the individual’s humorous (travel) stories, jokes from their life and travels, and the ability to see travel and leisure situations as amusing. A framework outlining the role of the humour repertoire is presented and an online empirical study is reported to address select components of the conceptual scheme. The results show a weak association between humour appreciation and production, indicating that researchers examining humour in tourism need to be careful in building generic implications from select work. Attention is then given to the multiple social and contextual factors beyond the individual level that need to be considered when assessing humour in diverse tourism contexts. Fresh research directions are indicated by considering the richness of the repertoire framework and links to cognitive schema research.
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Couder, Olivier. "Problem solved? Absurdist humour and incongruity-resolution." Journal of Literary Semantics 48, no. 1 (April 26, 2019): 1–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jls-2019-2005.
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Abstract This article explores the role absurdist humour fulfils in the narrative structure of novels as well as its impact on the process of literary interpretation. Tracing the historical and philosophical roots of absurdist humour, the article emphasises the importance of the concept of incongruity. It then critically evaluates current and influential cognitive and linguistic theories of humour, specifically incongruity-resolution theories and their purported suitability for literary analysis. Drawing on schema-theory, the article examines a passage from Douglas Adams’s The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1980; henceforth The Restaurant) and illustrates why literary humour cannot be analysed in the same manner as short, often specifically designed, joke texts as is common practice in most humour research. Subsequently, the traditional classification of absurdist humour as a type of humour where resolution cannot be achieved is also challenged as the analysis reveals how absurdist humour is part and parcel of the narrative structure of The Restaurant and how the incongruity is resolved at the moment of literary interpretation.
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Ajala, Bukola Christiana. "Is Koro indeed our man? Exploring the intertextual role of humour in the Twitter age." Journal of African Media Studies 14, no. 2 (June 1, 2022): 231–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jams_00075_1.
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Humour as a communicative activity is meant to evoke laughter in people, hence, the amusement of an utterance is typically judged by its response from the audience. This study examines amusing tweets on the COVID-19 pandemic and traces the intertextual origin of discourse in some of the tweets. It primarily explores the core role of humour as a cultural tool for satire. The incongruity theory of humour was employed as a theoretical framework for the study as it helps to better understand the reason Nigerians’ tweets are antithetical to prevailing circumstances in the country. This is a qualitative research design where a content analysis of 125 amusing tweets relating to the COVID-19 pandemic was sampled on Twitter. Search terms such as #May4, #3rdMainlandBridge, #KoroIsOurMan and #Obanikoro were employed to identify the pattern of humour in selected tweets as Nigerians’ tweets at the period revolved more around each of the hashtags. Open messages sent via Twitter were assessed adopting purposive sampling technique. Particular characteristics such as location of users, timeline of the lockdown and its relaxation (25 March‐30 June 2020) formed the parameters for the selection of the tweets. Though the coronavirus scourge has left thousands of people dead in its wake, Nigerians’ tweets and memes during the lockdown did not in any way reflect gloom or sombreness. This will pique an average readers’ interest as there is a violation of normative expectations. The results therefore reaffirm the age-long relevance of the incongruous in humour and the satirical role of intertextuality in discourse.
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Chang, Wei-Lin Melody, and Valeria Sinkeviciute. "role of ‘familiarity’ in Mandarin Chinese speakers’ metapragmatic evaluations of Australian conversational humour." European Journal of Humour Research 10, no. 2 (August 11, 2022): 74–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.7592/ejhr.2022.10.2.651.
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Although research on humorous practices of Anglo-Australians has received much attention, the understanding of those practices by members of various multilingual communities in Australia has not been much studied. In this paper, we look at metapragmatic comments on concept familiarity in relation to conversational humour, particularly focusing on Mandarin Chinese speakers’ perceptions of conversational humour in Australian English. In order to explore what role ‘familiarity’ plays in (inter-)cultural conceptualisation of humour, we analyse interview data where speakers of Mandarin Chinese provide their metapragmatic comments on humorous exchanges among Australians. Drawing on approximately 8.2 hours of interview data elicited by a segment from the reality television gameshow Big Brother 2012, i.e., a teasing sequence between two acquainted persons, it is suggested that the concept of familiarity is the one most frequently alluded to in the theme of how participants ‘draw the boundary’ between intimates and acquaintances. From the analysis it emerged that Mandarin Chinese speakers’ evaluations of humorous exchanges in Australian English are driven by their culturally-informed perceptions that are conceptualised through various emic notions, e.g. guanxi (‘interpersonal relationship’), various labels for classifying different relational distance, and qiji (‘opportune moment’). The findings of this exploratory paper suggest that the role of ‘familiarity’ in relation to humour is crucial in the perception of appropriateness of humorous practices in interaction, especially across cultures.
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Барашков, Андрей, and Andrey Barashkov. "Phenomenon of Political Humour in the KVN TV-Show." Bulletin of Kemerovo State University. Series: Political, Sociological and Economic sciences 2018, no. 4 (January 14, 2019): 5–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.21603/2500-3372-2018-4-5-12.
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The present research investigates the phenomenon of political humour in modern Russian TV shows. The paper features the case of such wits and humour competition as the KVN Show (The Club of the Funny and Sharp-witted). The author describes the concepts of laughter, humour, and the comic and explains their political component. The research objective was to reveal the role of the KVN's political humour in the political culture of the country. The author used the method of discourse analysis to study the performances of the KVN teams in the Major and Premier Leagues taken from "YouTube". The research results are of particular interest, which make it possible to develop the issues of political humour and the phenomenon of the KVN.
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Tódor, Erika-Mária, and Enikő Tankó. "Elements of Humour in the Classroom A Qualitative Approach to Data." Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica 12, no. 2 (November 1, 2020): 51–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ausp-2020-0012.
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AbstractNeither grades nor formal indicators of teachers’ effectiveness measure the presence or the nature of humorous situations in classroom conversations although these situations are, in fact, the iceberg components of the teacher–student communication and are important indicators of the motivational-behavioural background as well as cohesion of the group, of the power of collective thinking and creativity inside class community.The role of humour has not always been positive throughout time. For example, according to Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2016), Plato was one of the most influential critics of laughter, and he treated it as an emotion that overrode rational self-control, and thus could be considered a certain kind of evil. As for the bad reputation of humour, we can find yet another face of this reality in Kant’s approach, according to which humour can be understood as play, while laughter is a play signal.The present research is looking for answers regarding the role of humour in classroom conversation and interaction, according to students’ opinion, how they interpret certain terms related to humour, and what humorous situations they report of. In this study, we present the data of an empirical research based on the questionnaires completed by 159 students in the 5th to 8th grades from both urban and rural area, data which have been processed with the help of MAXQDA. Due to the highly practical nature of the research, it presents a general picture of the characteristics and role of humorous classroom situations.This unique location offers a specific interpretation of the discourse of humour, based on local and individual life experiences.
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Xue, Zhao, and Kuang Ching Hei. "GRICE�S MAXIMS IN HUMOUR: THE CASE OF �HOME WITH KIDS�." English Review: Journal of English Education 6, no. 1 (December 23, 2017): 49. http://dx.doi.org/10.25134/erjee.v6i1.770.
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Sitcoms provide entertainment, one of which is through humour. Using Grice�s (1975) non-observance of Cooperative Principles � flouting, violating, infringing, opting out, and suspending as framework for analysis, this study aims to investigate whether the non-observance of Grice�s (1975) maxims can contribute to the humorous effects seen in the Chinese sitcom �Home with Kids (Season 4)�. Specifically, this study aims to detect which of the maxims play an important role in creating humour. Data were compiled from 96 episodes of the show. A comparison of the non-observance was made before findings were qualitatively presented. The findings revealed that flouting and violating were used most frequently to create humour. The outcome of this study will have beneficial effects for L2 learners of Mandarin by enabling them to comprehend Chinese humour. The implications derived from this study suggest that humour may be created differently due to cultural differences.��Keywords: Chinese sitcoms, humour, flouting, violation, non-observance, maxims
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Dalebout, Michael G. "“Which One of You Is the Twelve-Year-Old Boy?”: Children’s Humour, Wittgensteinian Jokes, and the Sack Lunch Bunch." Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures 13, no. 1 (June 2021): 237–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/jeunesse.13.1.237.
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This article reads the comedic after-school special John Mulaney & the Sack Lunch Bunch (Netflix 2019) alongside philosophical accounts of humour, comedy, and laughter—collectively, Humour—and elaborates upon how Sack Lunch repurposes the conceptual binary of adult and child, neither reinforcing nor denying its formative role in the relationship between people of diverse ages. Interpreted as what Ludwig Wittgenstein called a grammatical investigation (or a study of how language is used), Sack Lunch inhabits the ambiguous and artificial boundary between child and adult to trouble an overly familiar picture of growing up. In showing how children’s and adults’ Humour is alike in showing what is funny, or off, in our world, Sack Lunch is a non-instrumental example of Humour as a pedagogical resource. Because it exposes the sedimented conceptions underlying how intergenerational social relationships perpetuate socio-political injustices, children’s Humour in particular warrants further attention by philosophers of humour.
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Ivanova, Alyona, Ekaterina Stefanenko, and Sergey Enikolopov. "Russian attitudes towards humour and laughter." European Journal of Humour Research 5, no. 2 (July 4, 2017): 80. http://dx.doi.org/10.7592/ejhr2017.5.2.ivanova.
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Different phenomena related to humour and laughter, such as humour styles, gelotophobia, gelotophilia and katagelasticism, were investigated in a series of psychological studies in Russia. As far as the samples were rather heterogeneous in regard with age, gender, region of Russia, and included besides big cities also small towns and villages, the data allows to discuss not only psychological, but also a certain cultural perspective. It is concluded that self-defeating humour style plays an important role in the structure of Russian cultural attitude towards humour and laughter. The most adaptive affiliative humour style is highly connected with self-defeating and aggressive styles. Similar pattern was shown for humour and laughter perception: a fear of being laughed at paradoxically provokes active involvement into exchange of jokes. A comparison between the two Russian capitals and regional sample revealed more similarities of Moscow and Saint Petersburg with western data than with the regional Russian sample which is supposed to reflect more of traditional national character.
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Turnsek, Maja, Tatjana Zupančič, and Barbara Pavlakovič. "Travel back to school: use of humour in intertwining of objective authenticity and staged experiences." European Journal of Humour Research 7, no. 3 (November 22, 2019): 101. http://dx.doi.org/10.7592/ejhr2019.7.3.turnsek.
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From living museums to heritage escape rooms, edutainment is becoming a norm in interpretation of heritage, yet not much is known, of the specific role humour plays in the creation and performance of such educational products. This paper explores concepts of authenticity, functions of humour and experience design dimensions on an in-depth case study of a tourism product. The product “Smart Head Primary School” is a re-enactment of teaching as it occurred in the 1950’s in Slovenia. It gained a high extent of popularity primarily due to its extensive inclusion of humour. The product uses the role of a strict teacher to interpret to the “pupils” (visitors) the prime elements of the regions’ heritage. To analyse the intertwining of humour with heritage interpretation, the authors combine two research methods: (a) the in-depth analysis of a transcribed video-recording of a sample performance including the self-analysis and the reflections by one of the “teachers” and (b) a survey distributed to the visitors of the product. The results show that with the use of humour, visitors are able to perceive and recognize the difference between objective and constructive authenticity more effectively.
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Stigel, Jørgen. "Humor i dansk tv-reklame. Et middel på tværs af livsstil?" MedieKultur: Journal of media and communication research 24, no. 45 (December 2, 2008): 15. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/mediekultur.v24i45.507.
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Udgangspunktet for denne artikel er, at humor spiller en relativt dominerende rolle i dansk tv-reklame, og at der dermed er tale om en stilart, som i høj grad søger at vinde tilslutning og sympati igennem en inkluderende henvendelsesmodus. Man kunne fristes til at antage, at dette skulle hænge sammen med en særlig dansk mentalitet, og at humor er mere eller mindre uomgængelig, hvis man vil have danske forbrugere i tale. Dette forhold kontrasteres med den tænkning i livsstile, som er blevet dominerende, dvs. en tænkning, der grundlæggende søger at udskille bestemte forbrugertyper eller -grupper og altså grundlæggende skiller eller ekskluderer i segmenter, målgrupper og værdifællesskaber og dermed i princippet også dikterer en udformning af kommunikationen, der sætter skel. Artiklens pointe er, at humor i flere henseender kan være en pragmatisk måde at omgå en række af de problemer, som såvel tænkning i livsstilssegmenter som i unikke mærkevarer sætter vis-a-vis et forholdsvist lille markedsområde, hvor kontakt via tv-reklame kan være relativt dyr. Og at humor bl.a. kan gøre det i kraft af, at dens særlige tvetydige modus forrykker kommunikationens realitetsreference til et andet plan og/eller til andre mere eller mindre groteske og derealiserede universer og figurer/figurkonstellationer. Det markeret forrykte kan dermed udgøre et fælles ’neutralt’ felt, som uanset skillelinjer i livsstile mv. kan appellere bredt og fungere inkluderende. Humour in Danish TV advertising. A means of transcending lifestyle barriers? The point of departure for the article is the fact that approximately 40% of Danish TV advertising in the 1990s had some humorous content and that fictional formats such as drama (and comedy) play an increasing role (cf. Stigel 2006 and 2001). Both small scale and large scale humour play a great role in Danish TV-ads and you might presume that this is due to some kind of special Danish mentality that one has to conform to in order to reach a Danish audience. Although humour in general has many faces the humorous style in Danish TV-ads is typically one of good will and seldom one of offensiveness. The intention is to include and create common ground in a playful way. In contrast the concept of lifestyle is basically a way of construing and segmenting audiences that prescribes exclusion and distinction or at least underlines barriers and differences between groups of people, their values and mentalities and accordingly also manifests these differences in the mode of address and the style of execution. The point the article makes is that humour in several respects represents a pragmatic way, making it possible to by-pass or transcend some of the problems raised by segmentation, lifestyle and unique brands - especially in a relatively small (Danish) market. The ambiguous mode of humour displaces the facts and the reality referred to by lifting things up to another (playful) level and/or by staging them via more or less grotesque events and non-realistic characters and universes. The displacement makes up a common, ’neutral’ ground and a marked level of incongruence in which it is possible to cross borders of lifestyle as well as other borders and problems inherent in marketing communication and consequently appeal in a broader and more inclusive way.
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Taleb, Rim, Hadi Itani, Sanaa Itani, Rayane Salameh, Aya Ramadan, and Khaled Sidani. "use of humour in medical education: students’ perspective." European Journal of Humour Research 10, no. 1 (April 14, 2022): 186–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.7592/ejhr2022.10.1.637.
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In early 20th century, Sir William Osler supported the use of humour as an efficacious tool in medical education, which continues to be used today. Despite the abundance of literature delineating this important role, it is often overlooked among medical students. A descriptive cross-sectional study was planned where a total of 295 medical students from the pre-clerkship and clerkship phases at Beirut Arab University Faculty of Medicine were included in the study. A questionnaire was distributed among the participants assessing their perception on the use of humour in medical education. Data were collected, entered, and analysed on SPSS software version 23.1. Results with p-value < 0.05 were considered statistically significant. The majority of participants agreed to the implementation of humour in medical education. They supported different forms of humour to be used, and considered mockery, sarcasm, the instructor appearing as a performer, and humour that is irrelevant to the course as inappropriate. Inappropriate humour distracts attention and disrupts the formal atmosphere. Our findings suggest that medical students’ opinions on using humour in medical education are supportive. The findings of this study might be of benefit to assist teachers in using humour to improve the attendance and interest of the students in the class and create an environment conducive to optimal student learning.
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Gorelov, Oleg S. "Principles of surrealist humour in the poetry of Leonid Shvab." Vestnik of Kostroma State University, no. 2 (2019): 187–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.34216/1998-0817-2019-25-2-187-191.
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The article analyses the poetic style of Leonid Shvab, which is described as impassive and distant in literary criticism, while the contrasting elements of humour and violence play an important role in the texts. Through the theory of surrealist humour, which clarifi es this contradiction, the nature of the comic in Leonid Shvab’s texts is investigated, and the aestheticemotional specifi city of his poetry is clarifi ed, as well as its perception by the reader. The basic mechanisms of surrealist humour – the creation of a mise en scène (theatricality), the realisation of gallows humour, the functioning of interrelated concepts of objective humour and objective chance – and their specifi c action in Leonid Shvab's verses, which turns out to be included in the context of Russian prose of the 1920s and 30s years (Andrei Platonov) and in the context of objectoriented philosophy.
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Russell, Janet. "Purple-Nozzled Yogurt Slingers and Cracks of Heaven: Genital Humour on UrbanDictionary.com." Estudios de Lingüística del Español 43 (June 1, 2021): 51–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.36950/elies.2021.43.8429.
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The internet offers possibilities to form communities and share a sense of humour that might not be acceptable in other spheres of public discourse. The internet also provides possibilities to develop and subvert text genres, such as dictionaries. There are serious slang dictionaries, but UrbanDictionary.com lies where humour and subversion meet. This article explores how the genre conventions of dictionaries are used and expanded to create a subversion of lexicographical standards and how these instances of subversion may result in humorous content. Also, the semantic properties of the entries, namely those based on metaphors, will be analysed with respect to how far these play a role in creating the specific genital humour UrbanDictionary.com is known for. For this, theories of metaphoric humour will be expanded to see how unexpected mapping processes result in incongruity and configurational humour.
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McCann, Ed. "The role of humour in high performing design teams." IABSE Symposium Report 108, no. 1 (April 19, 2017): 31–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.2749/222137817821232649.
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Shammi, P., and D. T. Stuss. "Humour appreciation: a role of the right frontal lobe." Brain 122, no. 4 (April 1999): 657–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/brain/122.4.657.
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Flesher Fominaya, Cristina. "The Role of Humour in the Process of Collective Identity Formation in Autonomous Social Movement Groups in Contemporary Madrid." International Review of Social History 52, S15 (November 21, 2007): 243–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020859007003227.
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This article draws on ethnographic research to analyse the role of humour in the process of collective identity formation within autonomous anti-capitalist groups in Madrid. Autonomous groups embrace the principles of horizontality, openness, diversity, participatory democracy, self-organization, and direct action, so defining themselves in contradistinction to more “vertical” movement organizations of the institutional left. The process of collective-identity formation involves both generating a sense of internal cohesion, and projecting an alternative identity. Autonomous groups in Madrid face a double challenge, for they must integrate ideologically heterogeneous activists, and they must define themselves as being alternatives to the much more consolidated groups of the institutional left. I shall analyse the different ways in which humour is used to address both those challenges: to sustain groups over time, to defuse tensions and try to resolve conflict, for myth-making, and to integrate marginal group members. I will also discuss the role humour plays in charismatic leadership and its use in the projection of an alternative political identity in direct actions. Finally, I will discuss the contested nature of humour as a political tool in the context of the Madrid network.
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Pretorius, Jannie, Mariëtte Koen, and Robert Schall. "Using intentional humour in a higher-education classroom: connecting with, and building on Lovorn and Holaway." European Journal of Humour Research 8, no. 2 (July 18, 2020): 146. http://dx.doi.org/10.7592/ejhr2020.8.2.pretorius.
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Positive humour can facilitate learning. From an educational perspective, it is important to examine how, when and why humour elicits a positive feeling in students, which, in its turn, creates an environment conducive to learning. Previous studies in humour research have focused on the generally perceived impact of humour in educational settings. Reflection on this idea gives rise to two questions. Will the use of intentional humour as a pedagogical tool indeed be perceived as such by students? Also, will a lecture containing positive humour affirm the impact of humour reported in academic literature? The researchers therefore decided that a lecture containing intentional humoristic elements would be presented to two groups of students with a view to determining their responses. To accomplish this, a mixed-methods approach was used, one employing a concurrent embedded nested design to explore the role and impact of intentional humour in two higher-education classrooms. A Likert-scale survey exploring six themes was developed regarding the impact of humour, as identified by Lovorn and Holaway (2015). Open spaces were provided to allow participants to expand quantitative responses. While the Mantel-Haenszel chi-square test statistic was used to analyse the quantitative data, content analysis was used to analyse the qualitative data. The theoretical framework for this paper was drawn from the instructional humour process theory (IHPT). Trustworthiness was gauged by applying Lincoln and Guba’s (1985) model of trustworthiness. The findings of the paper are in line with Lovorn and Holaway’s (2015) research, which suggests that when lecturers take advantage of the positive attributes of humour, it has the power to fuel both students’ engagement and their learning.
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Suciati, Indah, Alice Salendu, and Eka Gatari. "More humorous employees, more eager to innovate: psychological capital explained." E3S Web of Conferences 74 (2018): 10018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20187410018.
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Previous studies show that researchers are interested in studying the relationship of humour with creativity and innovation. Using the broaden-and-build theory, the present study explores the relationship between humour and innovative work behaviour then explain its process by the mediating role of psychological capital. 172 employees participated in this study through a self-report questionnaire. The result shows that psychological capital fully mediates the relationship between humour and innovative work behaviour. The theoretical and practical implications of the findings are discussed along with the future research direction.
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Szentes, Erzsébet, Zsófia-Irén Horváth, and Katalin Harangus. "The Role of Humour in Teaching: Teacher Training Students’ Image of Teacher and Views on Teaching." Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica 12, no. 2 (November 1, 2020): 84–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ausp-2020-0014.
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AbstractA common question in teacher training is what trace is left behind by (many years of) institutional learning, that is, what kind of teacher and teaching image a teacher candidate starts his or her preparation with. The main determinants of becoming a teacher are the experiences gained as a student. The source of their approach and views is personal school experience, which can influence their professional development. In our study, we will discuss how future teachers think about the relationship between humour and school, humour and education. In the initial phase of our study, we asked first-year teacher training students about good and bad teachers in order to gain an insight into their views on teachers’ personality and work. After this, we used metaphor analysis to investigate teacher characteristics/qualities that approached the concept of teacher to novel, humorous-playful images. In this phase of our study, we focused on what effective communication tools they have for dealing with tensions and conflicts and the role of humour and playfulness. Not only research (Tisljár 2011; Lazarus, Role, and Genga 2011) but also everyday experience proves that there are a lot of practices in humour that can be learnt and that can shape personality, logic, and memory. The personality of the teacher cannot be formed, or it is very difficult to form, so teacher training has the potential to assist teacher candidates in acquiring skills that help them develop students’ cognitive and affective abilities in a fun way.
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Edwards, Christian Nicholas, and Robyn L. Jones. "Humour in Sports Coaching: ‘It’s a Funny Old Game’." Sociological Research Online 23, no. 4 (June 14, 2018): 744–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1360780418780047.
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The primary purpose of this article was to investigate the use and manifestation of humour within sports coaching. This was particularly in light of the social significance of humour as a critical component in cultural creation and negotiation. Data were gathered from a 10-month ethnographic study that tracked the players and coaches of Senghenydd City Football Club (a pseudonym) over the course of a full season. Precise methods of data collection included participant observation, reflective personal field notes, and ethnographic film. The results demonstrated the dominating presence of both ‘inclusionary putdowns’ and ‘disciplinary humour’, particularly in relation to how they contributed to the production and maintenance of the social order. Finally, a reflective conclusion discusses the temporal nature of the collective understanding evident among the group at Senghenydd, and its effect on the humour evident. In doing so, the work contributes to the body of knowledge regarding the social role of humour within sports coaching.
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Marsh, Oliver. ""People seem to really enjoy the mix of humour and intelligence": science humour in online settings." Journal of Science Communication 15, no. 02 (March 17, 2016): C03. http://dx.doi.org/10.22323/2.15020303.
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This commentary considers the topics of humour and online settings. Both have received increasing attention amongst researchers and practitioners of science communication, and both raise numerous questions around the role of informality and enjoyment in the spread of information. However, online settings also provide a great range of data with which to address these questions. Here I suggest that close consideration of technical infrastructure plays an important role in this data collection. I shall do so using case studies drawn from two popular participatory websites, reddit and Facebook, which display contrasting attitudes towards using humour. I argue that these attitudes are partly products of the different tools provided by the pages for users to show appreciation, which affect the appearance of content on the websites. I also suggest that these tools allow users to appreciate jokes in multiple ways, and by extension might provide researchers with methods for assessing different forms of engagement.
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DAMIANAKIS, THECLA, and ELSA MARZIALI. "Community-dwelling older adults' contextual experiencing of humour." Ageing and Society 31, no. 1 (October 18, 2010): 110–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0144686x10000759.
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ABSTRACTThe purpose of this exploratory study was to examine the contextual experiencing of humour by community-dwelling older adults. Data for this study consisted of audio-recorded, transcribed interviews with 20 older adults who had participated in a larger study of a number of dimensions associated with the process of ageing. Qualitative coding of the interview content was used to extract salient themes that identified types of humour experienced in different life contexts. The analysis of older adults' narratives about their day-to-day lives yielded four types of experienced humour: affiliative, self-enhancing, self-defeating, and authentic. Within an inter-personal context, expressing and appreciating humour contributed to sustaining positive social connections. The use of authentic humour and being able to laugh at one's self and life's uncontrollable circumstances appeared to support a positive sense of self and was adaptive for coping with the inevitable losses that accompany the ageing process, such as declining health status. The results of this study suggest that humour expression and appreciation may play an important role in managing the ageing process in ways that are adaptive especially in inter-personal contexts. Possibly health-care providers in both community and institutional settings need to be made aware of the benefits for older adults of experiencing humour in different life contexts.
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Wakota, John. "Mini Devils: Dynamics of Power in a Community of Laughter." Umma: The Journal of Contemporary Literature and Creative Arts 9, no. 2 (January 31, 2022): 30–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.56279/ummaj.v9i2.2.
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This article examines the role of humour in Wilson Kaigalura’s novel, Mini Devils (2006) primarily because humour and laughter are among the most cherished traits of human being. Yet, what we laugh about, why, and how, are questions of serious concern. Using Susanne Reich and Mark Stein’s (2005) explication of the notion of communities of laughter, this article situates literary humour-laughter relationship within the stimuli-response framework and reads the characters as constituting a community of laughter that functions as an infrastructural site of sociability and socialisation. Drawing upon the theories of power, the article analyses the political and social aspects of humour that come in subtle ways, and yet serve major ways through which to access meanings that reveal, stabilise, or destabilise notions of power in society. This shift, from analysing humour and laughter as aesthetic devices to analysing them as deliberate political acts, can illuminate on our understanding of power dynamics and differentiation in society. The analysis shows that the characters’ performance of humour and its appreciation are goal-oriented and forms of power that are not always monopolised by particularised groups of people but can also be manipulated by all and sundry regardless of their social status in society.
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Gibbon, Claire. "Children's humour: its nature and role in coping with stress." Early Child Development and Care 39, no. 1 (January 1988): 201–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0300443880390116.
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