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The European Journal of Humour Research
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ISSN 2307-700X · Cracow Tertium Society for the Promotion of Language Studies · 928 artikel di indeks
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Psycholinguistic and cross-cultural analyses of the stimulus Deutscher Humor
The research aims to identify the specificity of encoding German humour in real time based on the principles of cross-cultural and psycholinguistic analyses. The study employed the directed association test method, revealing peculiarities in the associations to the stimulus Deutscher Humor and…
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Joking with social realities
Humour studies in Nigeria have focused predominantly on stand-up comedy and situation comedy. Little attention has been devoted to humour in skit comedy, especially Nigerian prank comedy skits (NPCS). Therefore, this paper examines the construction of humour in NPCS, focusing on Zfancy (Ubani Zion…
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Anatomy of social media humour in Ghana
This study examines the use of humour on Ghanaian social media through a multimodal lens, focusing on how content creators use different modes such as verbal and multimodal (images, memes, and cartoons) modes to engage the audience. Drawing on Kress and van Leeuwen’s Visual Grammar framework as…
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Dark humour and conflict
This paper examines the production of dark humour using the incongruity theory of humour. The study differentiates between two parallel but continuously interacting realms of human life: private and collective, where dark humour is created. In this paper, ‘private’ focuses on the protagonist’s…
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Age matters?
This study explores how age influences the perception and appreciation of humour, particularly in cartoon formats aimed at children and adults. Although humour has been extensively studied through various theoretical lenses-such as incongruity, superiority, and relief theories-its developmental…
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Loving and sharing dark humour
The central question of this study is to examine whether the appreciation of dark humour depends more on the participants' Need For Humour (NFH) than on their gender. Dark humour jokes were selected on various topics (i.e., death, disease, victim suffering, alteration of body integrity) to be…
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Podcasts as a medium for contemporary folklore
Podcasts have become one of the most visible forms of online media, with especially rapid growth during the COVID-19 pandemic. Their accessibility and interactive features—particularly on YouTube, where audiences engage through comments and messages—make humorous podcasts a valuable site for…
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Humour as a political communication strategy
In an era of growing political disaffection, humour has become a powerful tool in the populist communication arsenal. This article argues that, particularly in democratic contexts marked by declining trust in institutions, populist politicians increasingly employ humour not merely to entertain, but…
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The laughter of ghosts
This article deals with representing the Holocaust through a humorous lens. After discussing the pros and the cons of using humour in different works since the 1990s to represent such a tragedy as the Holocaust, in the second section, we will present the author that our case study focuses on…
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Laughter Yoga for the wellness of our students
As concern for student well-being grows, this research strived to investigate a cost-effective, engaging method to alleviate stress while enhancing mental health. Although peer-reviewed research on Laughter Yoga is limited, findings suggest benefits including stress reduction, improved mental…
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Comedy, grotesque realism, and Marxist heterodoxy in Sembene’s early cinema
This article explores the use of comedic strategies in Ousmane Sembene’s early cinema as a form of heterodox Marxist resistance to authoritarian and neocolonial power. Focusing on the relatively understudied Borom Sarret (1963) and Niaye (1964), alongside Mandabi (1968), we draw on concepts such as…
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Pandemic parodies
This study explores the role of intertextuality in shaping humorous responses to the COVID-19 pandemic on Twitter/X. Through an analysis of a corpus of 381 English-language posts from 2020-2021 tagged with leading COVID-19 humour hashtags, 72 posts were identified as containing intertextual…
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Speaking truth while telling jokes
This article examines how Greek satirists who produce and present television and online satirical newscasts legitimise their work at the intersection of journalism, humour and political advocacy. Focusing on programmes that mimic the format and aesthetics of newscasts, it situates their…
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‘Cunk on everything’
The trope of the stupid, and/or disingenuous, media ‘interviewer’ character invented and performed by comedians, from This is Spinal Tap, to Ali G, to Parks and Recreation, has been enormously popular. It also serves a more serious social commentary-satirical role, in ‘setting up,’ humiliating or…
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Colloquial Arabic as a decolonial language
In Arabic language, a distinction is often made between Classical Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic, fuṣḥā (formal language) and ʿāmmiyya (colloquial Arabic), and literary language and vernacular expressions. In this article, we reassess these frames to critically analyse the use of linguistic…
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Happiness, humour, and satire in Denmark
Given that happiness is a pervasive social norm in Denmark and prompted by Alenka Zupančič’s assertion that “the happiness imperative” is “hostile to the comic spirit,” this study explores humorous and satirical manifestations of this norm in three Danish television series. Drawing on…