Recent research has shown that teachers who are positive, humorous, happy, well-organised, supportive, and respectful of students are appreciated by their students (Jiang & Dewaele, 2019). This paper ...aims to explore humour strategies in the classroom of Chinese as a second language (L2) in an in-country study (ICS) program. In particular the study aims to answer three questions: (1) Was humour a common phenomenon in the Chinese language classrooms? (2) How was humorous classroom discourse constructed? (3) How did the humour strategies promote language learning and use? Qualitative data were collected through class observations and student interviews. The study has identified naturally occurring data to explore the phenomenon of humour. The findings indicate that humour strategies in the L2 classroom not only helped students challenge their stereotypical impressions of Chinese educational culture but also facilitated their language use and learning motivation. Chinese teachers are suggested to consider incorporating humour strategically in their teaching, which may contribute to learners’ long-term desire for language learning and ICS in China.
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GEOZS, IJS, IMTLJ, KILJ, KISLJ, NLZOH, NUK, OILJ, PNG, SAZU, SBCE, SBJE, UILJ, UL, UM, UPCLJ, UPUK, ZAGLJ, ZRSKP
We explore how norms of science are given attention through laughter in life science doctoral supervision. Four supervision sessions were observed and video recorded. All laugh units were identified, ...and instances of humour were coded in relation to norms of science. Our analysis reveals tensions around how to do valid research, governance vs. administration and the willingness to make sacrifices. Balancing between validity and feasibility and between quality and quantity, not to mention the importance of scepticism in intellectual conversation, are other important norms of science highlighted in the interaction. We found that norms of science are a vital part of life science supervision and that supervisors play a critical role in the process of socialising PhD students into becoming researchers. We saw how PhD students are taught to navigate these norms, that is, how they are supposed to behave in these complex normative systems. We recognised that the norm of calling has many benefits for researchers in natural science but may pose a threat to good work-life balance for PhD students. Since humour is a powerful form of communication, we recommend that supervisors reflect on how laughter is used as well as which norms and values they teach.
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En este trabajo se presenta un análisis de la labor de imagen que realizan dos políticos españoles en el marco de una entrevista humorística audiovisual. Tomando como base la perspectiva apuntada por ...Charaudeau (2005), acerca del ethos, y el enfoque de Lakoff (2007), concerniente a los marcos cognitivos, y teniendo en cuenta que toda interacción humorística supone un riesgo para la imagen de los participantes, el objetivo de este trabajo ha sido doble: por un lado, comprobar de qué manera el político gestiona el efecto de las burlas hacia su imagen en un contexto que se encuentra en las antípodas de lo político; por otro, descubrir si las posturas ideológicas de los interlocutores juegan algún papel en las labores de imagen. En concreto, se han analizado las entrevistas a dos políticos realizadas en el programa radiofónico de humor La vida moderna, emitido por la cadena SER: Pablo Iglesias, líder de Podemos, y Andrea Levy, diputada del PP.
This article presents an innovative reading of humour within the classic Spanish postwar novel, El Jarama by Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio (1955), typically deemed dispassionate, solemn, and deadly ...serious. Grounding its interpretation in Humour Studies, it explores undercurrents of desolate, almost deliberately non-funny amusement that encourage stifled laughter from bleak situations, before immediately questioning the veracity and appropriateness of mirthful reactions. It coins new ways of understanding bathetic, grim comedy, based on situations usually interpreted as being mirthless: sluggish 'grey humour', originating fundamentally, and paradoxically, in boredom; 'comic-kazi', a backfiring, debilitating, anti-comic funniness; and 'hardship humour', amusement based on privation.
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The use of humour in advertising is widespread and research about it has grown rapidly. There are now at least 250 academic works devoted to advertising humour with over 150 articles, dissertations, ...books, and major conference papers appearing just since 2000. This article takes stock of the growth of advertising humour research, encompasses an account of the newer research, summarizes what we have learned, thus far, and lays out the dimensions that might be fruitful for future humour researchers. The review reveals a broad and rich array of work that contributes to the historical context, definition, development, effectiveness, and boundary conditions of how, and when, advertising humour works best.
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Humour and laughter have been regarded as suitable topics for research in the social sciences, but as methodological principles to be adopted in carrying out and representing the findings of research ...they have been neglected. Indeed, those scholars who have made use of humour — wit, satire, jokes etc. — risk being regarded as trivial and marginalised from the mainstream. Yet, in literature the idea that comedy can tell us something important about the human condition is widely recognised. This neglect of the potential of humour and laughter represents a serious omission. The purpose of this article is to make a sensible case for the place of humour as a methodology for the social sciences.
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Vituperation, disparagement, and debasement seem to have become part of the mainstream discourse in contemporary US-American media culture. Zooming in on a distinct televisual comedy genre, Katja ...Schulze explores the formal principles, media-specific realizations, and the cultural work of disparagement in contemporary female-led situation comedies. Subsequently, larger patterns of (gender-based) invective strategies and conventions that define the dynamism of this comedic genre come into view. Her study outlines case studies of popular sitcoms, like Parks and Recreation, Mike & Molly, and the revival of hit-sitcom Roseanne, thereby unearthing how the shows are able to stage humor as mass-mediated deprecation - a signifying practice with its own poetics and politics.
This study aims to bridge the research gap in the humour comprehension problems of individuals with dyslexia in Chinese culture. We conducted a nonexperimental study to examine the differences ...between Chinese adolescents with and without dyslexia in visual humour comprehension as well as the group differences in the correlation of visual humour comprehension with other abilities. In total, 48 Chinese adolescents (16 individuals with dyslexia and 32 individuals without dyslexia) were recruited in Hong Kong. They were all administered several tasks: tests of nonverbal IQ, Chinese character reading, visual-spatial attention, orthographic knowledge, and visual humour comprehension. Our results indicated that visual humour comprehension is correlated with other abilities. Additionally, the group with dyslexia performed significantly less accurately on most tasks except humour comprehension accuracy. However, only visual spatial attention, orthographic knowledge, and humour comprehension speed significantly predicted membership in the two groups. Finally, approximately half of the participants with dyslexia had significantly slower humour comprehension than those with typical development. Our findings shed light on problems with humour comprehension exhibited by Chinese individuals with dyslexia.
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This paper examines the issue of freedom of expression in relation to online humour, particularly in Indonesian law. Despite being an inherent individual right within the broad scope of freedom of ...expression, there is currently no clear demarcation line in Indonesian law to position humour as an integral aspect of this right and of entertainment. Consequently, forms of humour such as memes, parodies, and satire may potentially be considered as insulting due to the subjective nature of humour and the lack of a consistent interpretation. This legal uncertainty raises concerns about the protection of freedom of expression as a fundamental human right in the present era. Despite the protection granted by the Constitution and various laws, Indonesia's legal framework does not explicitly define humour as a constituent of freedom of expression, thus leaving its interpretation to the discretion of the courts.
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