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Humor enhancers in the study of humorous literature
This paper examines the treatment of literary humor. Attardo has extended the SSTH/GTVH (Raskin 1985; Attardo and Raskin 1991) to longer humorous literary texts, not simply sequences of jokes (Attardo 2001; Attardo et al...
Keywords: Linguistics, literature, literary studies, literary theory, philology, semantics, script opposition, humor, humor theory, SSTH, GTVH
09/2004 | Humor - International Journal of Humor Research, Walter de GruyterHumor appreciation as an adaptive esthetic emotion
This article describes ethological analyses of the arts, and notes parallels between the arts and humor...
Keywords: humor, humor appreciation, humor production, esthetics, fitness, laughter
02/2006 | Humor - International Journal of Humor Research, Walter de Gruyter“One of the last vestiges of gender bias”: The characterization of women through the telling of dirty jokes in Ally McBeal
Based on an audience-centered model of television discourse, we show that verbal interaction is one of the principal means of characterization in film...
Keywords: Characterization, gender, humor, joke telling, television discourse
02/2006 | Humor - International Journal of Humor Research, Walter de GruyterCan an epic woman be funny? Humor and the female protagonist in late Medieval and early Renaissance epic
Women characters in the
Keywords: humor, literary role of women, literary theory and humor
05/2006 | Humor - International Journal of Humor Research, Walter de GruyterA randomized trial of humor effects on test anxiety and test performance
This investigation tested the hypothesis of humor effects on test anxiety to improve test performance...
Keywords: humor, humor and test performance, humor in test items, test anxiety
10/2006 | Humor - International Journal of Humor Research, Walter de GruyterThe interaction of cartoonist's gender and formal features of cartoons
The present study investigates gender differences in the use of formal features of cartoons, like the amount of text, the number of panels, or the application of color...
Keywords: Cartoon, humor, gender, formal features
02/2007 | Humor - International Journal of Humor Research, Walter de GruyterHow native and non-native English speakers adapt to humor in intercultural interaction
Humor can often carry an implicit negative message and thus be potentially dangerous to use...
Keywords: English as a second language, humor, intercultural communication, sociolinguistics
02/2007 | Humor - International Journal of Humor Research, Walter de GruyterBurnout and humor relationship among university lecturers
This research is aimed to identify the relationship between burnout and the variables of lecturers' humor styles, demographic information, occupational conditions, and ability to cope with humor in general...
Keywords: Burnout, humor, university lecturers
02/2007 | Humor - International Journal of Humor Research, Walter de GruyterLawyers' use of humor as persuasion
Legal humor is a topic of perennial appeal, and has long been a prolific source of books, articles, and scholarly commentaries which are avidly consumed by popular and professional audiences alike...
Keywords: humor, legal discourse, persuasion
05/2007 | Humor - International Journal of Humor Research, Walter de Gruyter“Taking the piss”: Functions of banter in the IT industry
This paper shows how banter helps forge organizational culture by facilitating socialization of work group members and presents original research conducted in three IT companies...
Keywords: Banter, culture, empirical, humor, joke, status
05/2007 | Humor - International Journal of Humor Research, Walter de GruyterLaughing brains: On the cognitive mechanisms and reproductive functions of mirth
Mirth is a central feature of our experience of literature and related arts. This essay considers the nature and origins of mirth...
Keywords: humor, literary cognition, comedy, emotion, childhood development, evolutionary psychology
06/2007 | Semiotica, Walter de GruyterThe emergence of the identity of a fictional expert advice-giver in an American Internet advice column
This paper is a contribution to research on the expression of expert advice-giving (e.g., Heritage and Sefi 1992; Silverman et al...
Keywords: advice, identity, expertise, directives, mitigation, humor, Internet language
01/2006 | Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, Walter de GruyterRegional humor differences in the United States: Implications for management
This paper is an exploratory study examining humor differences among four regions of the United States and the managerial implications of such differences...
Keywords: humor, management, regional culture, United States
05/2007 | Humor - International Journal of Humor Research, Walter de GruyterPoliteness, Humor and Gender in the Workplace: Negotiating Norms and Identifying Contestation
After first considering some of the challenges of defining and measuring the concept of politeness, the analysis draws on data from the Wellington Language in the Workplace Project to illustrate the value of complementary quantitative and qualitative approaches to the issue of what it means to be polite at work...
Keywords: relational practice, humor, gender, workplace discourse analysis, methodology
01/2005 | Journal of Politeness Research. Language, Behaviour, Culture, Walter de Gruyter