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Banter as transformative practice: linguistic play and joking relationships in a UK swimming club. 作为变革实践的戏谑：英国游泳俱乐部中的语言游戏和玩笑关系。

Humor (Berlin, Germany) Pub Date : 2024-08-14 eCollection Date: 2024-10-01 DOI: 10.1515/humor-2024-0005

Sean Heath

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A general mechanism of humor: reformulating the semantic overlap 幽默的一般机制:语义重叠的重新表述

Humor (Berlin, Germany) Pub Date : 2023-09-11 DOI: 10.1515/humor-2023-0032

Javier Martínez

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The Humor Styles Questionnaire: a critique of scale construct validity and recommendations regarding individual differences in style profiles 幽默风格问卷:对量表结构效度的批判和对风格特征个体差异的建议

Humor (Berlin, Germany) Pub Date : 2023-09-11 DOI: 10.1515/humor-2023-0086

Graeme Galloway

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Jennifer Caplan (2023). Funny, you don’t look funny: Judaism and humor from the silent generation to millennials 詹妮弗·卡普兰(2023)。有趣，你看起来不有趣:从沉默的一代到千禧一代的犹太教和幽默

Humor (Berlin, Germany) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 DOI: 10.1515/humor-2023-0064

E. Oring

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Villy Tsakona (2020). Recontextualising humour. rethinking the analysis and teaching of humor. De Gruyter Mouton, 229 pp. Villy Tsakona(2020)。彻底幽默。重新思考幽默的分析与教学。De Gruyter Mouton, 229页。

Humor (Berlin, Germany) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 DOI: 10.1515/humor-2022-0102

W. Chłopicki

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Elisa Gironzetti: The Multimodal Performance of Conversational Humor Elisa Gironzetti:会话幽默的多模态表现

Humor (Berlin, Germany) Pub Date : 2023-09-04 DOI: 10.1515/humor-2023-0041

Béatrice Priego-Valverde

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Shepherd Mpofu, ed.: The politics of laughter in the social media age Shepherd Mpofu主编:社交媒体时代的笑声政治

Humor (Berlin, Germany) Pub Date : 2023-09-04 DOI: 10.1515/humor-2022-0116

I. Filani

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Sexist jokes don’t appear to increase rape proclivity among men high in hostile sexism: Evidence from two pre-registered direct replications of Thomae and Viki (2013) 性别歧视笑话似乎不会增加敌意性别歧视高的男性的强奸倾向:来自两个预先注册的直接复制Thomae和Viki(2013)的证据

Humor (Berlin, Germany) Pub Date : 2023-07-25 DOI: 10.1515/humor-2022-0134

N. McLatchie, M. Thomae

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Clown doctors virtualized: hospital professionals’ perception regarding online visits during confinement in Portuguese public hospitals 小丑医生虚拟化:医院专业人员对葡萄牙公立医院坐月子期间在线访问的看法

Humor (Berlin, Germany) Pub Date : 2023-07-10 DOI: 10.1515/humor-2022-0118

Inês Peceguina, Iêda Alcântara, A. C. Santos, Flávia Diab, Sílvia Carvalho

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‘Just kidding?’ – an exploratory audience study into the ways Flemish youth with a minoritized ethnic identity make sense of ethnic humor and the politics of offense “只是在开玩笑吧?——一个探索性的受众研究，探讨了具有少数民族身份的佛兰德青年如何理解民族幽默和冒犯政治

Humor (Berlin, Germany) Pub Date : 2023-06-26 DOI: 10.1515/humor-2022-0119

Anke Lion, Frederik Dhaenens

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