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The Chinese as targets in Polish humorous discourse
2019
Abstract The paper discusses contemporary Polish humor which features references to Chinese language and culture. Together with the ideological, political, financial and economic visibility of China, its presence in Polish humorous discourse is on the rise. Jokes, cabaret sketches and visual materials, such as memes, more and more frequently use the Chinese as targets for entertaining the audience. The article will analyze the instances of Polish humorous discourse (largely Internet memes) to show which are the most frequent specific stereotypes about the Chinese and how that relates to Davies’s models of target choice. The results suggest that Polish humor about the Chinese as an untypical…
Polish highlander jokes and their targets
2017
The aim of the paper is to identify the characteristic features of jokes about Polish highlanders and analyse them to isolate the comic script of a highlander. This group of jokes is treated as a good illustration of Christie Davies’s ethnic jokes theory concerning canny versus stupid and centre versus periphery oppositions, as well as mind over matter. A particular type of reasoning and the use of regional dialect are distinctive features of the joke targets that make it possible to perceive these jokes as a culturally specific phenomenon. The head shepherd (called baca) is the key character of the cycle. He is a very down-to-earth person, who is proud of his practical wisdom and has a ver…
Fear-then-relief, mindlessness, and cognitive deficits
2002
The assumption that mindlessness underlies the effectiveness of the ‘fear-then-relief’ social influence technique has been verified in four studies. The first two experiments indicated that compliance of those experiment participants who were made to function on the thoughtful level under a ‘fear-thenrelief’ condition decreases to the level observed in the control group. The other two experiments were to analyze the cognitive functioning of people who at first experience fear and then a sudden and unexpected relief. The first of these experiments indicated that the amount of time needed to detect the expression of emotion on other persons’ faces is prolonged, and the second of these latter …
La voz de una autoridad heterodoxa sobre el amor en el primer franquismo. Los consultorios sentimentales de Amparo Rivelles
2021
Entre 1948 y 1952, el semanario cinematográfico Primer plano publicó un consultorio sentimental firmado por la actriz Amparo Rivelles. La estrella española más popular del momento se convertía así en consejera sobre la moral, el noviazgo y los usos amorosos entre los jóvenes; una cuestión que el Régimen consideraba como una pieza fundamental en la regulación de las relaciones de género. Se trata de un consultorio singular, alejado de la gravedad, el dramatismo y la grandilocuencia de otros, surgidos en diversos medios periodísticos a raíz de la buena acogida de público que estas secciones gozaron durante aquellos años. El presente artículo analiza las implicaciones de unos textos en los que…
Suomen Liigasta idän pikajunaan : jääkiekon KHL-joukkue Jokereiden kotiyleisön sosiodemografia sekä näkemykset kotiottelutapahtumista ja seuran KHL:ä…
2019
Jääkiekko on kasvanut viime vuosikymmenien aikana Suomen seuratuimmaksi urheilulajiksi, ja lajiin on onnistuttu myös rakentamaan maan ainoa täysammattilainen liiga. Lajin suosion nousuun on vaikuttanut niin toimintaympäristössä kuin urheilun seuraamisessa tapahtuneet muutokset. Kansainvälisen menestyksen myötä yleisön kiinnostus jääkiekkoa kohtaan on kasvanut ja jääkiekko-otteluista on muiden urheilutapahtumien ohella tullut viihteellisiä kulutushyödykkeitä. Jääkiekkoyleisöä on tutkittu suhteellisen vähän huolimatta lajin suuresta suosiosta, joten yleisötutkimuksen tekeminen lajin parissa on perusteltua. Helsingin Jokerit on pitkät perinteet omaava jääkiekkoseura, joka kohahdutti suomalaist…
06. Laughing at Oneself: On the New Social Character
2015
This paper examines certain practices of humour, especially self-ridicule, as a kind of social pathology, drawing on the work of Erich Fromm. The paper starts with the observation that laughing at oneself is typically considered to be a positive trait. In general, self-ridicule reveals that the joker does not consider him- or herself to occupy a high ground, to be above ridicule. This kind of affirmative attitude towards laughing at oneself is also present in many philosophers’ thinking. Morally, it is stated, it is better to laugh at oneself than at others. The paper challenges some of these general ideas. Not every kind of self-ridiculing is positive. Laughing at oneself can eventually be…
Metafora e motto di spirito: due atti linguistici a confronto
2022
In questo articolo ci pro poniamo di mettere in relazione due atti linguistici: metafora e motto di spirito. In particolare, nel primo paragrafo noteremo che i due atti linguistici sono uniti da un comune destino negli studi del linguaggio. Nel secondo paragrafo metteremo in luce caratteristiche simili dei due atti linguistici che ci consentiranno di considerare metafore e motti di spirito come “finestre” sul funzionamento della creatività umana. In particolare, sosterremo che i due atti linguistici sono caratterizzati entrambi da proprietà come bissociazione di idee, tensione concettuale e referenza sdoppiata. Infine, nel terzo paragrafo, evidenzieremo delle differenze strutturali che non …
El componente pragmático en los diccionarios: Implicaciones para la Lexicografía
2015
Dictionaries are a list of words, simple or complex, that are treated as entries (lexical items). It is usual to assert several components: the lemma or headword, named after its most neutral form, followed by an indication of the main inflections of its category: genre and number if they are names, syntactic class if they are verbs. Sometimes, indications of it are made in other aspects: etymology, pronunciation, marks of placement, area of use, register, frequency of use, etc.Among all the group, it is pointed out an area that grows daily, painstakingly, in lexicographic works: the pragmatic component. Most of the words are referential (names, verbs, adverbs), but others correspond to lan…
Treffen sich ein Pole und ein Deutscher: Zu den Schwierigkeiten bei der Übersetzung von Witzen
2018
One cannot always laugh at a joke. Problems arise, among other things, when a joke is to be translated from one language into another. On the basis of selected examples, the present article deals with the difficulties with the translation of jokes from German into Polish and vice versa, and presents some suggestions of coping with them.
Le Confabulationes di Poggio e il «palcoscenico» della Curia
2014
Il saggio prende in esame la struttura e l’organizzazione retorica del Liber facetiarum di Poggio Bracciolini, avanzando alcune ipotesi sul progetto narrativo dell’autore alla luce delle modifiche apportate nelle diverse fasi redazionali del libro. L’accento viene posto sulla costruzione di una cornice dialogica, che coordina le singole pièce narrative e riconduce l’atto del narrare alle conversazioni del circolo umanistico della Curia pontificia. Da un lato, Poggio recupera il modello della «lieta brigata» del Decameron, adattandolo al nuovo contesto della "confabulatio" umanistica; dall’altro, approfondisce la dimensione comica e scenica dello scambio verbale, istituendo uno stretto rappo…