8 Citations
Laughter as language
- Philosophy
- 2020
Understanding the import of laughter, has interested philosophers and literary scholars for millennia and, more recently, psychologists, biologists, neuroscientists, and linguists. However, the…
Subversive Humor as Art and the Art of Subversive Humor
- ArtThe Philosophy of Humor Yearbook
- 2020
Abstract This article investigates the relationships between forms of humor that conjure up possible worlds and real-world social critiques. The first part of the article will argue that subversive…
Funny as it may be: Humour in the American sitcoms I Love Lucy and Modern Family
- LinguisticsStudies About Languages
- 2018
The present study explores the manifestation of humour in two American TV situational comedy (sitcom) series: I Love Lucy (1951-1957) and Modern Family (2009-present). These sitcoms are known as…
Trying to make it fit…That's what she said: An argument for a new category on the formulaic continuum
- LinguisticsJournal of Pragmatics
- 2018
A Missing Link in ELT: EFL Learners’ Recognition, Comprehension and Appreciation of English Humor
- Linguistics, Education
- 2017
Familiarity with different aspects of English humor applied by native speakers in their daily interactions could help EFL learners to understand humorous expressions that might be otherwise literally…
Computational Analysis on a Corpus of Political Satire Articles: A Theoretical and Experimental Study
- Sociology
- 2016
The normativity of humor
- Philosophy
- 2015
In this paper, I’d first like to explore the idea that the concept of humor is a distinctive kind of normative concept. In particular, I’ll argue, the concept of humor should be understood as…
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- Linguistics
- 1984
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