This book explores the fascinating discourse on Jewish wit in the twentieth century when the Jewish joke became the subject of serious humanistic inquiry and inserted itself into the cultural and ...political debates among Germans and Jews against the ideologically-charged backdrop of anti-Semitism, the Jewish question, and the Holocaust.
La Navidad en el trópico Como muchas otras creencias impuestas, era la víspera de Navidad en nuestra casa, de país tropical, donde no cantamos villancicos, ni cae nieve, ni señores gordos y viejos ...vestidos de rojo se encaraman en los techos a tirar regalos a las chimeneas: nuestra idea de chimenea habría hecho que los juguetes terminaran como parte de las brasas y cenizas de la cocina de leña que alguna vez vimos en casa de mi abuela. Yo siempre he sido de sueño pesado, mientras que mamá toda la vida ha padecido de un sueño ligero que la mantenía en vela y de mal humor al día siguiente; el motor de la refrigeradora la despertaba; incluso lo escuchaba a bastantes metros con paredes de por medio. Como en nuestro pueblo la costumbre de los ladrones era la de meterse por el techo y ella, acostumbrada a no dejarse quitar lo que con esfuerzo le había costado conseguir, como buena mujer abandonada con sus hijos, no dudó en cargar la escopeta, salir lo más callada al punto donde pudiera divisar en la oscuridad el techo y tirarle a la primera sombra que viera en movimiento sospechoso.
This title deals with the construction of diverse forms of humour in everyday oral, written, and mediatised interactions. It sheds light on the differences and, most importantly, the similarities in ...the production of interactional humour in face-to-face and various technology-mediated forms of communication, including scripted and non-scripted situations. The book draws on a variety of up-to-date approaches and methodologies, and will appeal to scholars in discourse analysis, conversation analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, pragmatics, ethnography of communication, and social semiotics.
This book is the first extensive sociological study of the relationship between humor and social background. Using a combination of interview materials, survey data, and historical materials, it ...explores the relationship between humor and gender, age, social class, and national differences in the Netherlands and the United States. The exploration of social differences in sense of humor starts off from one specific, and not very prestigious, humorous genre: the joke.Good Humor, Bad Tasteexplains why jokes are good humor to some, bad taste to others.
Authoritarian Laughter
explores the political history of the satire and humor
magazine Broom published in Soviet Lithuania. Artists,
writers, and journalists were required to create state-sponsored
...Soviet humor and serve the Communist Party after Lithuania was
incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1940. Neringa Klumbytė
investigates official attempts to shape citizens into Soviet
subjects and engage them through a culture of popular humor.
Broom was multidirectional-it both facilitated
Communist Party agendas and expressed opposition toward the Soviet
regime. Official satire and humor in Soviet Lithuania increasingly
created dystopian visions of Soviet modernity and were a forum for
critical ideas and nationalist sentiments that were mobilized in
anti-Soviet revolutionary laughter in the late 1980s and early
1990s.
Authoritarian Laughter illustrates that Soviet Western
peripheries were unstable and their governance was limited. While
authoritarian states engage in a statecraft of the everyday and
seek to engineer intimate lives, authoritarianism is defied not
only in revolutions, but in the many stories people tell each other
about themselves in jokes, cartoons, and satires.
This volume presents an in-depth analysis of mock politeness, bringing together research from different academic fields and investigating a range of first-order metapragmatic labels for mock ...politeness in British English and Italian. It is the first book-length theorisation and detailed description of mock politeness and, as such, contributes to the growing field of impoliteness. The approach taken is methodologically innovative because it takes a first-order metalanguage approach, basing the analysis on behaviours which participants themselves have identified as impolite. Furthermore, it exploits the affordances of corpus pragmatics, a rapidly developing field. Mock Politeness in English and Italian: A corpus-assisted metalanguage analysis will be of interest to scholars and postgraduate students researching im/politeness and verbal aggression, in particular those interested in im/politeness implicatures and non-conventional meanings.
Humour represents a central aspect of our everyday conversation. This is why the study of humour has attracted the attention of researchers for centuries. Although research on humour in its numerous ...genres has been pursued for centuries, only scant attention has been paid to research on theoretically interpretation of the humour theory in compliance with an anthropocentric scientific paradigm based on the modern German language. The present study focuses on humour from a linguistic perspective, trying to describe the types of humour theories. The views of famous researchers on this problem have been analyzed. Before discussing humour theories in detail, it will be helpful to define humour. This study shows which of the theories are the most relevant ones for cognitive-semantic research, as well as what their function is. We can conclude that the classification of humour theories by J. Jablonska-Hood is the most comprehensive.
O humor representa um aspecto central da nossa conversa cotidiana. É por isso que o estudo do humor atrai a atenção de pesquisadores há séculos. Embora a pesquisa sobre o humor em seus numerosos gêneros tenha sido realizada há séculos, pouca atenção tem sido dada à pesquisa sobre a interpretação teórica da teoria do humor em conformidade com um paradigma científico antropocêntrico baseado na língua alemã moderna. O presente estudo enfoca o humor a partir de uma perspectiva linguística, procurando descrever os tipos de teorias do humor. As opiniões de pesquisadores famosos sobre este problema foram analisadas. Antes de discutir as teorias do humor em detalhes, será útil definir o humor. Este estudo mostra quais das teorias são as mais relevantes para a pesquisa cognitivo-semântica, bem como qual é a sua função. Podemos concluir que a classificação das teorias do humor de J. Jablonska-Hood é a mais abrangente.
El humor representa un aspecto central de nuestra conversación cotidiana. Es por esto que el estudio del humor ha llamado la atención de los investigadores durante siglos. Aunque la investigación sobre el humor en sus numerosos géneros se ha llevado a cabo durante siglos, se ha prestado poca atención a la investigación sobre la interpretación teórica de la teoría del humor de conformidad con un paradigma científico antropocéntrico basado en el idioma alemán moderno. El presente estudio se centra en el humor desde una perspectiva lingüística, tratando de describir los tipos de teorías del humor. Se han analizado las opiniones de investigadores famosos sobre este problema. Antes de discutir las teorías del humor en detalle, será útil definir el humor. Este estudio muestra cuáles de las teorías son las más relevantes para la investigación cognitivo-semántica, así como cuál es su función. Podemos concluir que la clasificación de las teorías del humor de J. Jablonska-Hood es la más complete.
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