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Translating humorous literature from Vietnamese into Italian language: an empirical study of humour reception 越南语幽默文学的意译:幽默接受的实证研究

European Journal of Humour Research Pub Date : 2022-04-14 DOI: 10.7592/ejhr2022.10.1.615

Thu Hien Le

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Pun-based jokes and linguistic creativity: designing 3R-module 双关语笑话与语言创造力：3R模块的设计

European Journal of Humour Research Pub Date : 2022-04-14 DOI: 10.7592/ejhr.2022.10.1.622

E. Aleksandrova

{"title":"Pun-based jokes and linguistic creativity: designing 3R-module","authors":"E. Aleksandrova","doi":"10.7592/ejhr.2022.10.1.622","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7592/ejhr.2022.10.1.622","url":null,"abstract":"The development of creativity becomes a significant issue in the era of automation and information technologies. Linguistic creativity can increase the inventiveness and resourcefulness of the representatives of philological professions. We consider humour as a tool that helps to develop personal creativity. Verbal play as a form of humour is considered as one of the ways to improve linguistic creativity. The 3L-course of linguistic creativity is aimed at developing lingual, localisation & translation, and literary creativity. The 3L-course includes 3R-module designed to improve the ability to recognise, reproduce in another language, and recreate pun-based linguistic inventions and innovations. The 3R-module tasks are based: on the similarity of activity, the similarity of the modality of the stimulus material, the number of languages, and the types of language units. The 3R-module involves the 3T-stage model (transparency, training, and testing).The 3S-test based on sense-finding, solution-finding, and scope-finding tasks revealed that the combination of 3R-module with the 3T-stage model in the scope of the 3L-course would help improve the quantity and quality of ideas and avoid stalemates when creating linguistic inventions. The 3L-course can be useful for philological students, writers, translators, journalists, copywriters, native and foreign language teachers because it helps improve personal creativity and productivity.","PeriodicalId":37540,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Humour Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49502160","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}

引用次数: 2

Lexico-semantic means of pun creation in Spanish jokes about La Gomera by Caco Santacruz 卡科·圣塔克鲁斯关于戈梅拉的西班牙语笑话中双关语的词汇语义创造方法

European Journal of Humour Research Pub Date : 2022-04-14 DOI: 10.7592/ejhr.2022.10.1.638

L. Bobchynets

{"title":"Lexico-semantic means of pun creation in Spanish jokes about La Gomera by Caco Santacruz","authors":"L. Bobchynets","doi":"10.7592/ejhr.2022.10.1.638","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7592/ejhr.2022.10.1.638","url":null,"abstract":"The research note deals with the analysis of lexico-semantic means used in the creation of the pun, such as homonymy, polysemy, and also morphological and syntactical means including re-grouping of syllables inside the phrase. Research material comprises puns by the Spanish author Caco Santacruz about the inhabitants of La Gomera Island. \u0000The aim of the article is to reveal lexico-semantic ways of creation of the author’s jokes based on the use of the pun. Therefore, the definition of the pun in multilingual resources has been analysed. To reveal the ambiguity, the context in which the pun is used is needed, which we define as a communicative situation of ambiguity created by the author to reach the humorous effect.\u0000Most of the analysed jokes contain a dialogue of two people who understand the meaning of the phrase in their own way, creating imaginary misunderstanding based on polysemy or homonymy. The regrouping of syllables and polysemic grammatical meaning of prepositions are among the morphological and syntactical means of pun creation. The means of making a pun used by Santacruz includes pseudo-words, based on the creation of new words on the analogy of word-formation to reach the humorous effect.\u0000Future studies of the use of the pun as a source of humour may be focused on the analysis of linguistic means of pun creation on the material of other European languages in order to reveal the common patterns of pun creation and differences, conditioned by linguistic peculiarities of the correspondent language systems. The term ‘pun context’ may be applied to further studies of ambiguity created by the author.","PeriodicalId":37540,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Humour Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46625691","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}

引用次数: 1

role of humour in tourism discourse 幽默在旅游语篇中的作用

European Journal of Humour Research Pub Date : 2022-04-14 DOI: 10.7592/ejhr.2022.10.1.639

Jasna Potočnik Topler

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use of humour in medical education: students’ perspective 幽默在医学教育中的运用:学生的观点

European Journal of Humour Research Pub Date : 2022-04-14 DOI: 10.7592/ejhr2022.10.1.637

R. Taleb, Hadi Itani, S. Itani, Rayane Salameh, Ayad G. A. Ramadan, K. Sidani

{"title":"use of humour in medical education: students’ perspective","authors":"R. Taleb, Hadi Itani, S. Itani, Rayane Salameh, Ayad G. A. Ramadan, K. Sidani","doi":"10.7592/ejhr2022.10.1.637","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7592/ejhr2022.10.1.637","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":37540,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Humour Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49005180","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}

引用次数: 2

Covidly humorous memes: coping, social cohesion and power dynamics of humour during the pandemic in Morocco 新冠病毒幽默梗:摩洛哥大流行期间幽默的应对、社会凝聚力和权力动态

European Journal of Humour Research Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.7592/EJHR2022.10.3.688

Mohamed Mifdal

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引用次数: 1

Travel-related humour and COVID-19: insights from memes 旅行相关幽默和COVID-19:来自表情包的见解

European Journal of Humour Research Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.7592/EJHR2022.10.3.659

Anja Pabel, Maja Turnšek

引用次数: 1

Both artistic and comic 兼具艺术性和喜剧性

European Journal of Humour Research Pub Date : 2021-12-30 DOI: 10.7592/ejhr2021.9.4.576

M. Ševčík

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Exploring teacher-initiated humour in Academic English classes 探究大学英语课堂中的教师幽默

European Journal of Humour Research Pub Date : 2021-12-30 DOI: 10.7592/ejhr2021.9.4.556

A. Kholmatov

{"title":"Exploring teacher-initiated humour in Academic English classes","authors":"A. Kholmatov","doi":"10.7592/ejhr2021.9.4.556","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7592/ejhr2021.9.4.556","url":null,"abstract":"As a subject focused on teaching grammar forms needed for academic studies and genres of academic writing, Academic English may seem tedious at times. Sometimes it is a complex subject for students who are fresh to academia and it needs a peculiar didactic approach to provide a smooth transition of students from general to academic English writing at a university level. One of these approaches may be using humour during classes. The current research explores teacher-initiated humour in Academic English classes at the Westminster International University in Tashkent and its effects on students. Besides, it seeks answers to questions as to what types of humour teachers employ during the class mostly, how often they use humour, as well as students’ and teachers’ recommendations given on how to use humour in class. This study uses both qualitative and quantitative data extraction methods in the form of an online questionnaire with students and a semi-structured interview with teachers. Obtained results show that affective and social roles of humour, its quality of lessening anxiety, creates favourable conditions for students and teacher’s connectedness, which outweighs other humour’s roles. Besides, mnemonic and engaging roles of humour received solid support by the respondents. To obtain a more positive effect, it is recommended that teachers, when incorporating humour in class, apply a systematic approach. Humour should be planned beforehand and needs to be appropriate. Moreover, it should be used with moderation.","PeriodicalId":37540,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Humour Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42861653","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}

引用次数: 1

Humour-integrated language learning (HILL) in perspective, progress and prospect 幽默整合语言学习的视角、进展与展望

European Journal of Humour Research Pub Date : 2021-12-30 DOI: 10.7592/ejhr2021.9.4.557

M. Heidari-Shahreza

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