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Moral philosophy as the foundation of normative media theory: The case of African Ubuntuism

In the South African debate about the role of the media in the new (post-apartheid) South African society, the African moral philosophy ubuntuism is from time to time raised as a framework for African normative media theory...

Keywords: moral philosophy, normative theory, ubuntuism, freedom of expression, communitarianism, Africanization, postmodernism, postcolonialism, comparative theory

03/2007 | Communications, Walter de Gruyter
Comedy theory and the postmodern

The “comic” and the “ironic” have been embraced by certain strands of contemporary literary theory as ambiguous, self-reflexive modes of expression that are particularly appropriate to the crisis of representation which characterizes the postmodern mood...

Keywords: Comedy theory, Incongruity, irony, postmodernism, the absurd, theories of creativity

02/2006 | Humor - International Journal of Humor Research, Walter de Gruyter
The discursive challenge to politeness research: An interactional alternative

The discursive approach to politeness represents one of the most coherent challenges to the dominance of Brown and Levinson's politeness theory to date, and indeed to the continuing viability of the field of politeness research itself...

Keywords: face, politeness theory, postmodernism, discursive approach, interactional

07/2007 | Journal of Politeness Research. Language, Behaviour, Culture, Walter de Gruyter