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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…
Poola intertekstuaalsed meemid COVID pandeemia kohta
2021
The aim of the paper is to show the Polish story of the COVID-19 pandemic as seen through a humorous looking glass. Different stages of coronavirus presence in the media and social discourse have been accompanied by the appearance and development of jokes and memes, which illustrate the rapidly changing pandemic situation. The database consists of over three hundred memes, movies, and comments collected between February and May 2020, during the pandemic humour peak, and come mainly from private WhatsApp and Facebook accounts of the researchers. The humorous material is related to introduced restrictions, changing laws, parliamentary elections, news from other affected countries as well as s…
Sophisticated humor against COVID-19 : the Polish case
2021
Abstract The analysis undertaken in the article focuses on a group of memes selected from the database which drew on culture-specific references. Specifically, they embrace the memories of socialist times and call on references to comic films and easily recognized characters in order to bring out the re-discovered absurdity of the current COVID-19 situation. This material seems ideal to revisit Raskin’s early notion of sophistication, which was broadly argued to derive from intertextuality as well complexity of references that function as sources of humor. In all the examples discussed we can observe the intertextual and metatextual elements, multiple levels and shifts in points of view and…
Estudio exploratorio de las estrategias de encuadre discursivo en memes humorísticos publicados en Twitter durante las elecciones generales de noviem…
2020
La presente investigación se basa en el análisis de un corpus de 115 memes humorísticos difundidos en la red social Twitter, durante las elecciones generales celebradas en España en noviembre de 2019. Para su recopilación se han consultado los tuits publicados haciendo uso de los hashtags que se convirtieron en trending topic, en el transcurso de la campaña electoral que tuvo lugar entre el 1 y el 10 de noviembre de 2019. En ellos hemos podido identificar los principales rasgos que caracterizan al discurso pseudopolítico y determinadas estrategias de encuadre discursivo utilizadas para movilizar el voto y orientar cognitivamente los mensajes. This research is based on the analysis of a corp…
La promoción de la imagen política en Instagram: un estudio del perfil personal de Santiago Abascal (Vox) en 2018
2020
Due to Instagram’s growing popularity in Spain, politicians have also begun to turn to this social network increasingly more. Accordingly, this paper analyses the visual and textual discourse of 259 posts published throughout 2018 on the personal Instagram profile of Santiago Abascal, the leader of the party Vox. Insofar as he is the Spanish politician with the highest number of followers on Instagram, the aim here is to analyse how he uses this social network in order to identify possible strategies that justify his growing number of followers. In the analysis, special attention was paid to aspects that might have contributed to the (self)presentation of Abascal and the promotion of his pa…
Me gusta ♥ La «memesfera» de Instagram y las nuevas formas de producción cultural
2020
Este Trabajo de Final de Máster pretende ampliar la comprensión del universo memético de la red social Instagram desde la perspectiva de la Gestión Cultural mediante una aproximación exploratoria y cualitativa. Los objetivos propuestos son, por un lado, el estudio de la autoría de los memes para aproximarnos a su gestión y, por el otro, el análisis formal de los memes y la arquitectura de Instagram. El presente trabajo explorará las nociones de meme, autoría y redes sociales para analizar los tres ejes que componen la memesfera de Instagram. Se realizará un análisis que incluirá entrevistas en profundidad y análisis de memes de los perfiles seleccionados. De esta forma se pretende contribui…
"Auttaminen on molemminpuolinen ilo!" : avustaviin perheenjäseniin perustuva auttaminen suomalaisissa perheyrityksissä auttajan näkökulmasta tarkaste…
2013
Understatement and overstatement in humor. Polish memes about traditions
2020
The paper deals with different possibilities of using humor in Internet memes to enrich teaching culture to students of diverse backgrounds. Selected examples of image macros connected with particular holidays celebrated in Poland were analyzed and presented as a potential illustrative material for discussions about various, sometimes even sensitive subjects such as religion or taboos. The deciphering of understatements and overstatements included in the humorous genres gives an insight into social, political, economic and historical knowledge about particular cultures. Visually attractive material may serve as an inspiration for debates and jocular form of examples makes the intercultural …
Sophisticated humor against Covid: the Polish case
2021
The analysis undertaken in the article focuses on a group of memes selected from the database which drew on culture-specific references. Specifically, they embrace the memories of socialist times and call on references to comic films and easily recognized characters in order to bring out the re-discovered absurdity of the current Covid situation. This material seems ideal to revisit Raskin’s early notion of sophistication, which was broadly argued to derive from intertextuality as well complexity of references that function as sources of humor. In all the examples discussed we can observe the intertextual and metatextual elements, multiple levels and shifts in points of view and attitudes a…
Poola intertekstuaalsed meemid COVID pandeemia kohta
2021
The aim of the paper is to show the Polish story of the COVID-19 pandemic as seen through a humorous looking glass. Different stages of coronavirus presence in the media and social discourse have been accompanied by the appearance and development of jokes and memes, which illustrate the rapidly changing pandemic situation. The database consists of over three hundred memes, movies,and comments collected between February and May 2020, during the pandemic humour peak, and come mainly from private WhatsApp and Facebook accounts of the researchers. The humorous material is related to introduced restrictions, changing laws, parliamentary elections, news from other affected countries as well as se…