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Towards a typology of humorous wartime tweets 走向一种幽默的战时推特类型

European Journal of Humour Research Pub Date : 2023-03-28 DOI: 10.7592/ejhr.2023.11.1.746

O. Yehorova, A. Prokopenko, A. Zinchenko

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Examining the rhetorical strategies employed in the humorous discourse of Chinese talk shows 中国脱口秀幽默语篇的修辞策略研究

European Journal of Humour Research Pub Date : 2023-01-09 DOI: 10.7592/ejhr.2022.10.4.713

Tianli Zhou, N. Mansor, Lan Hoon Ang, S. Sharmini, Xuan Tang

{"title":"Examining the rhetorical strategies employed in the humorous discourse of Chinese talk shows","authors":"Tianli Zhou, N. Mansor, Lan Hoon Ang, S. Sharmini, Xuan Tang","doi":"10.7592/ejhr.2022.10.4.713","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7592/ejhr.2022.10.4.713","url":null,"abstract":"Researchers have pointed out that rhetorical strategies have a significant impact on producing humour in Chinese talk shows, while few of them have investigated the factors that affect the rhetorical choice in humorous discourse in that context. This study aims to identify the rhetorical strategies used in humorous discourse and investigate the factors that impact on the rhetorical strategies chosen by the hosts or comedians to produce humour. Thus, the current study selected 24 monologue samples from a popular programme called Rock & Roast and conducted a discourse analysis on them. Kenneth Burke’s rhetorical theory is adopted to uncover the factors that influence rhetorical choice in the humorous discourse of Chinese talk shows. The findings reveal that the realisation of rhetorical strategies in the humorous discourse of talk shows is rich, including rhetorical devices, foreign language (English), and internet buzzwords, among other things. The main factors influencing the rhetorical strategies chosen in the humorous discourse in Chinese talk shows are the ‘ratio’ of ‘agent and agency,' which are talk show comedians and the Chinese language. This study contributes to helping the audience gain a better understanding of rhetorical humour in Chinese talk shows and provides a new perspective for humorous discourse analysis.","PeriodicalId":37540,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Humour Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48730442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Conceptions and practices of Iberian mathematics teachers about humour 伊比利亚数学教师幽默观与实践

European Journal of Humour Research Pub Date : 2023-01-09 DOI: 10.7592/ejhr.2022.10.4.674

F. Viseu, Luís Menezes, S. Amante, Pablo Flores

{"title":"Conceptions and practices of Iberian mathematics teachers about humour","authors":"F. Viseu, Luís Menezes, S. Amante, Pablo Flores","doi":"10.7592/ejhr.2022.10.4.674","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7592/ejhr.2022.10.4.674","url":null,"abstract":"This study focuses on the conceptions and practices of Iberian (Portuguese and Spanish) mathematics teachers regarding instructional humour. Specifically, the study aims to answer the following questions: (1) How do Iberian mathematics teachers view humour and how do they appreciate a sense of humour? (2) What educational value do Iberian mathematics teachers ascribe to humour in the teaching and learning process of this subject? (3) How do Iberian mathematics teachers use humour in mathematics teaching? and (4) What differences, regarding humour and its use in the educational context, are found among Iberian mathematics teachers, as determined by their professional experience? A mixed methodology was adopted for this study, with a greater quantitative emphasis, combining quantitative analysis with descriptive and inferential statistics. Iberian mathematics teachers (N=1087) from all educational levels participated in the study. The data was collected through an online questionnaire, organised according to three dimensions of analysis: (1) Humour and sense of humour; (2) Educational value of humour in the teaching and learning of mathematics; and (3) Use of humour in the teaching of mathematics.\u0000The results reveal that Iberian teachers who teach mathematics recognise the meaning of humour, feel they have a sense of humour and appreciate it in others, find reasons to use it in mathematics teaching and have seen it being used or use it in their classes to create a good learning environment and make students think. The results show differences over the teachers’ careers, especially in their use of humour and the purpose they make of it. However, the magnitude of the effect suggests the need to consider other variables in addition to the teachers’ professional experience, such as the level of training, the type of training and the cultural context in which the school is located.","PeriodicalId":37540,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Humour Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49013876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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exploration of phonological jokes in Maryam Apaokagi's selected comedy skits 探讨apokagi选集中的语音笑话

European Journal of Humour Research Pub Date : 2023-01-09 DOI: 10.7592/ejhr.2022.10.4.700

Ronke Eunice Okhuosi

{"title":"exploration of phonological jokes in Maryam Apaokagi's selected comedy skits","authors":"Ronke Eunice Okhuosi","doi":"10.7592/ejhr.2022.10.4.700","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7592/ejhr.2022.10.4.700","url":null,"abstract":"The majority of studies on Nigerian comedy are discourse- and pragmatics-related, despite the impact of phonology on humour creation as seminal studies have shown. These seminal studies describe phonological jokes to mean ambiguous utterances whose humour lies in their multiple phonological interpretations. However, comedy skits from Nigeria show that there are more dimensions to phonological jokes. Therefore, this study investigated the phonological jokes in comedy skits from Maryam Apaokagi, using Chomsky and Halle’s Distinctive Features and McGraw and Warren’s Benign Violation Theory. Twenty skits were purposively selected from the artist’s YouTube channel. Four strategies were identified in the data: minimal pairs, phonological restructuring, phonological ambiguity, and phonological extension. Four instances each of minimal pairs and phonological restructuring were identified; the former replaced phonemes in words, thus, changing their meanings, while the latter re-arranged phoneme sets and syllables to achieve new structures. There were two instances of phonological ambiguity where strings of sounds had multiple meanings; homophony was engaged to achieve rhythm and humour. Phonological extension had twenty-eight instances; it occurred when one character produced a syllable, and another extended it by providing a longer but partially similar word. Four types of phonological extensions were identified, and these were extension into regular words, popular names, concepts and other languages. The jokes portrayed socio-cultural and economic situations in Nigeria like poverty, promiscuity, high living costs, and burglary. Apaokagi used comedy to teach patience and tolerance. The comprehension of these jokes thrived on shared background knowledge between the artist and the audience.","PeriodicalId":37540,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Humour Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46429671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The cute and the fluffy 可爱的和毛茸茸的

European Journal of Humour Research Pub Date : 2023-01-09 DOI: 10.7592/ejhr.2022.10.4.692

L. Laineste, Anastasiya Fiadotava, Eva Šipöczová, Guillem Castañar Rubio

{"title":"The cute and the fluffy","authors":"L. Laineste, Anastasiya Fiadotava, Eva Šipöczová, Guillem Castañar Rubio","doi":"10.7592/ejhr.2022.10.4.692","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7592/ejhr.2022.10.4.692","url":null,"abstract":"When serious official political statements are not enough to get people’s votes, politicians often turn to attention-grabbing and emotion-triggering self-presentation. They give the public access to their “normal, everyday” lives through personalisation and use other tools of “new” politics to create a favourable image of themselves. They can also show the unexpected, backstage aspects of their lives, such as their interactions with their pets. The paper analyses four case studies from different countries (Belarus, Estonia, Slovakia and Spain) in which politicians’ references to their pets became a prominent topic in internet communication and provoked numerous humorous reactions in the form of memes. By looking at various degrees of politicians’ personalisation strategies, we show that “new” and “old” politics should be regarded as the poles of a continuum rather than a binary opposition. We also discuss the content, form and stance of the humorous internet memes posted in reaction to the appearance of politicians’ pets in the news. Our research indicates that such memes function to provoke a discussion and, as a result, form a polyvocal commentary on events; the politicians, however, must take risks accompanying unconventional, revealing political communication and hope that “there's no such thing as bad publicity”.","PeriodicalId":37540,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Humour Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47532011","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Jokes in Italian as a foreign language: comprehension, funniness, and sharing 意大利语作为外语的笑话:理解、搞笑和分享

European Journal of Humour Research Pub Date : 2023-01-09 DOI: 10.7592/ejhr.2022.10.4.658

Alejandra Platas-García, Verónica Reyes-Meza, J.-Martín Castro-Manzano

{"title":"Jokes in Italian as a foreign language: comprehension, funniness, and sharing","authors":"Alejandra Platas-García, Verónica Reyes-Meza, J.-Martín Castro-Manzano","doi":"10.7592/ejhr.2022.10.4.658","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7592/ejhr.2022.10.4.658","url":null,"abstract":"This paper analyses whether the comprehension of a joke in Italian as a foreign language is influenced by personal or task elements, whether comprehension influences the perception of funniness, and whether perceived funniness affects intention to share the jokes. A quantitative cross-sectional study was performed. Participants were all native Spanish speakers from Mexico who also read Italian as a foreign language. There were 61 participants, aged 19-64 years (Mage = 26.3; SD = 9.4), comprising 42 females and 19 males. Comprehension was measured using a multiple-choice test. Funniness was measured by a perception scale and sharing was measured by determining intention to share. The objectives were fourfold: to identify whether factors related to the test-taker (gender, occupation, and age) influenced comprehension; to investigate whether factors related to the test task (level of language, reading support, and prior knowledge) influenced comprehension; to explore if comprehension influenced the perception of funniness; and to determine whether funniness influenced the intention to share. To statistically evaluate these question, four generalized linear models were constructed (one corresponding to each objective). The results indicated that: (i) the test-taker’s occupation affects comprehension (p = 0.0499); (ii) the interaction of all of the test-task factors influences comprehension (p = 0.03087); (iii) comprehension affects funniness (p <0.001); and (iv) perceived funniness influences sharing (p <0.001). Finally, a discussion of these results is presented.","PeriodicalId":37540,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Humour Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45260069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Making fun of power 拿权力开玩笑

European Journal of Humour Research Pub Date : 2023-01-09 DOI: 10.7592/ejhr.2022.10.4.703

Orest Semotiuk, V. Shevchenko

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How students perceive the teacher’s use of humour and how it enhances learning in the classroom 学生如何看待老师对幽默的使用，以及幽默如何促进课堂学习

European Journal of Humour Research Pub Date : 2023-01-09 DOI: 10.7592/ejhr.2022.10.4.656

Farhana Bakar, Vijay Mallan

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Caricaturing the enemy 讽刺敌人

European Journal of Humour Research Pub Date : 2023-01-09 DOI: 10.7592/ejhr.2022.10.4.707

K. Travlos, Doruk Akyüz, Ceren Mert Travlos

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Could humour make advertisements worse? 幽默会让广告更糟糕吗？

European Journal of Humour Research Pub Date : 2023-01-09 DOI: 10.7592/ejhr.2022.10.4.657

V. Dikčius, Karina Adomavičiūtė, Ieva Venskuvienė

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